Tag: campaign advertising
New Santorum Ad: Deal
The ad below is being released statewide by Rick Santorum’s campaign in Nevada and Colorado. This has to be the first negative ad he has run, and this targets Newt Gingrich. Maybe he’s getting sick of Newt telling him to leave the race. Gingrich didn’t seem to be concerned about unifying the conservative vote in [...]
Santorum’s First Ad Buy of Campaign
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Former Senator Rick Santorum’s (R-PA) campaign won’t release the size of the ad buy, but the radio commercial (you can listen above or here) will be played on satellite radio stations nationwide Monday, and local stations in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina later this week. It features [...]
Iowa Third Congressional District Campaign Ad Comparison Shows Leonard Boswell is in Trouble
You can learn a lot about campaigns by the ads that they run, and from the latest campaign ads let loose in the Iowa 3rd Congressional District race it seems like incumbent Congressman Leonard Boswell is in trouble. Watch Boswell’s ad released last week: Now watch the two ads that State Senator Brad Zaun released [...]
Iowa Governor Race Ad War II: Branstad 2 Culver 0
Today another volley took place between Governor Chet Culver and former Governor Terry Branstad. James Lynch of The Mason City Globe-Gazette wrote that a 69 word ad by the Branstad campaign elicited a 630 word “fact check” by the Culver/Judge Campaign. In a 30-second spot entitled "Really," Branstad, Iowa’s governor for 16 years and now [...]
