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Wednesday, September 26th, 2012

Ad Watch: Obama/Biden 2012 turns infamous Romney gaffe from secret video into an ad

Wel­come back to Ad Watch, our newest spe­cial series, which is run­ning week­ly from now until elec­tion week. The pur­pose of this series is to attempt to cat­a­log, or index, the many cam­paign ads that are going up on tele­vi­sion (and some­times radio) to influ­ence elec­tions in the Pacif­ic North­west. In each install­ment, we’ll briefly describe ads we’ve seen that are being paid for by can­di­dates, bal­lot mea­sure coali­tions, polit­i­cal par­ties, or shad­owy spe­cial inter­ests mas­querad­ing as grass­roots groups, and pro­vide links so you can watch the ads for yourself.

This week in Ad Watch:

  • Obama/Biden 2012 has qui­et­ly released a bru­tal new ad enti­tled My Job that con­sists sole­ly of audio extract­ed from the video Moth­er Jones released of Mitt Rom­ney speak­ing at a fundrais­er for high-roller donors back in May. As Rom­ney dis­miss­es the “forty-sev­en per­cent”, images are shown of fam­i­lies, vet­er­ans, and work­ing men and women with somber or qui­et expres­sions. “I’ll nev­er con­vince them to take per­son­al respon­si­bil­i­ty and care for their lives,” Rom­ney says as the ad ends. The ad is sim­i­lar to a spot Obama/Biden pro­duced back in the sum­mer, titled Firms.
  • Anoth­er Obama/Biden ad released this week is called Table. It’s long — it clocks in at two min­utes — and its star is the pres­i­dent him­self, dis­cussing his fair­ly mod­est goals for a sec­ond term. It is report­ed­ly set to run in bat­tle­ground states, but it may also be seen on cable chan­nels here.
  • Rob McKen­na’s newest TV spot (We Need Jobs) is quite pos­si­bly the weak­est ad his cam­paign has released so far. It awk­ward­ly and uncon­vinc­ing­ly claims Jay Inslee stands for “more gov­ern­ment, more tax­es, and more lost jobs” … with­out even both­er­ing to lev­el any spe­cif­ic charges against Inslee.

Nei­ther Maria Cantwell nor Michael Baum­gart­ner’s cam­paigns have unveiled new ads since the sum­mer. Per­haps they’re keep­ing their pow­er dry until Octo­ber — though if you ask us, that does­n’t make too much sense, because the air­waves are only get­ting nosier and more crowded.

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