New Campaign Ads Have a Theme: Don’t Be Nice
2006-09-27
Source: New York Times
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rss feedRepublicans and Democrats began showing at least 30 new campaign advertisements in contested House and Senate districts across the country on Tuesday. Of those, three were positive.
For Republicans, it was the leading edge of a wave of negative advertisements against Democratic candidates, the product of more than a year of research into the personal and professional backgrounds of Democratic challengers.
"What do we really know about Angie Paccione?" an announcer asks about a Democratic challenger in Colorado. "Angie Paccione had 10 legal claims against her for bad debts and campaign violations. A court even ordered her wages garnished."
For Democrats, it was part of a barrage intended to tie Republican incumbents to an unpopular Congress, criticize their voting records, portray them as captives to special interests and highlight embarrassing moments from their business histories.
In Tennessee, Democrats attacked Bob Corker, a Republican candidate for Senate, saying his construction company had hired illegal immigrants "while he looked the other way."
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