Ohio hit with * anti Kerry ads

[Norbert]

The chimpy/Rove campaign is blitzing my part of Ohio with more anti-Kerry TV ads than I have seen yet. The gist of most of the ads is "John Kerry and his liberal buddies in Congress WILL raise your taxes." I consider it part B of the debate mulligan.

My big worry is the frequency of these ads might work. If you repeat s lie over again it will become a mantra for the undecideds left in Ohio. I don't know if this is happening in other battleground states but it is here to the point that it is obnoxious.

[ClintonTyree]

1. First...........

you must have a job to have them raise you taxes. In Ohio, that's a big problem right now. I'd hope the good people of Ohio would see through this smoke screen. Bush/Cheney policies have been disatrous for Ohio, as Edwards said "we can't take four more years of your experience".
Has Kerry been running any ads in reply to cambat these blatant lies?

[gasperc]

2. getting baraged here in MI too

this is unbearable

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

3. Been to the well once too often...

Throughout the ninties, the Republicans who control the State House were always trumpeting this tax cut or the other tax cut. When the bad times hit, Ohio's "Rainy Day Fund" lasted just about that long: One Day.

I think that most Ohioans now get that when a politician talks about cutting taxes, it's a nothing but an election year gimmick. We've become jaded on that particular point and if given a choice between "more jobs" and "lower taxes," they're going to bite at more jobs every time.

[Julien Sorel]

4. LOL

You could see this coming about halfway through the debate.

There are three silver linings in this cloud:


1) Are they running many flip flop ads? Ads on Iraq? If not, or if they are running a very few, it rather strongly suggests those "issues" have been defanged by the debate.

2) The fact they are going so negative shows how terrified they were. Two weeks ago Bush was arrogantly campaigning in Wisconsin.

3) They are now going nuts on the "John Kerry tax and spend liberal" approach, just as they did on the "John Kerry weak flip flopper" mantra. When the debates came, people saw the contrast between the Kerry the Bush people described, and the Kerry that is, and it was a big plus for Kerry. Their negative campaigning effectively lowered the bar. It can, and probably will, happen again when Kerry and Bush go at it over the economy, and people hear Kerry describe his own tax plan, not have Bush describe it for him.

B/C credibility is sinking like a stone, and these negative ads are not going to help.