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What kinds of ads did you run into from the Romney campaign vs the Obama campaign? (vanity)

Posted on 11/09/2012 8:07:04 AM PST by Zhang Fei

My impression from reading campaign coverage is that Romney's were upbeat and positive, whereas Obama hammered Romney at every turn. What was your experience?


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: 2012; obama; romney; vanity

1 posted on 11/09/2012 8:07:10 AM PST by Zhang Fei
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To: Zhang Fei

Romney’s were upbeat and soft with platitudes.

Romney’s PAC’s ad were devastating.


2 posted on 11/09/2012 8:09:27 AM PST by gotribe (He's a mack-daddy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV415yit7Zg)
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To: Zhang Fei
Positive, big ideas ads. The one about China was a head scratcher.

The Obama ad about classroom size was a head scratcher as well.

3 posted on 11/09/2012 8:09:37 AM PST by Perdogg (Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA4) for President 2016)
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To: Zhang Fei

What Romney ads? I don’t remember seeing any here, but then, I live in central NY State. It was Obama ads, all the time.


4 posted on 11/09/2012 8:09:50 AM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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we were out campaigning for weeks. Too busy to watch TV. How ‘bout you?


5 posted on 11/09/2012 8:11:55 AM PST by campaignPete R-CT (campaigning for local conservatives)
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Never saw a Romney ad on anything but YouTube. Saw a couple Romney PAC ads on TV a couple days before the election.


6 posted on 11/09/2012 8:17:59 AM PST by Proud2BeRight
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To: campaignPete R-CT
we were out campaigning for weeks. Too busy to watch TV. How ‘bout you?

I don't watch TV, so I have no idea what ads were airing, although my assumption is that TV programs featured the usual free advertising for the Dems via anti-conservative scripts.

7 posted on 11/09/2012 8:18:27 AM PST by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Zhang Fei

Liberals know an ugly election game will make many conservatives staying at home.


8 posted on 11/09/2012 8:19:18 AM PST by granada
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To: Zhang Fei

The two most important, and talked about, strategies that never transpired.

ORCA (GOTV)

Death Star (Ad Campaign)

Both failures. Game over.


9 posted on 11/09/2012 8:22:14 AM PST by nhwingut (Get out & Vote as if your life was on the line. Because it is.)
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To: Zhang Fei

Hubby often watches movie trailers and other video clips on Yahoo. Every time he clicked on one, an Obama ad would play before the trailer. He finally quit watching them due to his annoyance. He wanted to know how much those ads cost and did the campaign have to pay per view.


10 posted on 11/09/2012 8:25:25 AM PST by petitfour
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Don’t watch TV because there’s no time for it. Occasionally, I’ll catch a telenovela on Univision when I go to bed. My impression from that experience was that the Obama campaign and Moveon.org had so many anti-Romney ads on there, repeated over and over...for a long, long time. Only the last week did I see an Anti-Obama ad, which ended with “nos traiciono” if that’s spelled right. He betrayed us... which Crossroads put on. Only 1 Romney campaign ad...and it was unmemorable. Romney was painted as a devil over and over for hispanics for a long time. I couldn’t see a way he could counter that.

Other than that half hour or so before I fall asleep, I have no time for TV. Glad those are gone now.


11 posted on 11/09/2012 8:29:03 AM PST by vharlow
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To: Zhang Fei

Medved said yesterday that Obama’s campaign and the Super PACs aligned with him ran ads that were 85% negative. And they WORKED.


12 posted on 11/09/2012 8:30:18 AM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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Since most everything I watch is on the internet, I can say I only saw Obama smothering everything, especially on election day. I heard nothing Romney on the radio.


13 posted on 11/09/2012 8:34:04 AM PST by Ingtar (Everyone complains about the weather, but only Liberals try to legislate it.)
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To: Zhang Fei

Everytime an ad ran for one candidate, there was one for the other. I couldn’t tell much difference other than names. We usually turned the channel as soon as one came on...thank God for remotes


14 posted on 11/09/2012 8:42:00 AM PST by stuartcr ("When silence speaks, it speaks only to those that have already decided what they want to hear.")
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The bulk of Obama ads that were on here showed up on the SyFy Channel. Kind of appropriate, because since he first took office, I’ve felt like I’m in the Twilight Zone.


15 posted on 11/09/2012 9:00:29 AM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Zhang Fei

I’m in new York. Saw nothing but obama ads, no romney ads. At first the obama ads were nothing but negative attack ads in romney. It wasn’t until a week or two before the election did the obama ads get softer and stopped mentioning romney and started pushing obama. “5 million jobs, created. Our auto manufacturing companies, back.” Etc, etc


16 posted on 11/09/2012 9:11:55 AM PST by lowbridge (Joe Biden: "Look, the Taliban per se is not our enemy.")
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To: Zhang Fei
The kindest Obama ad I saw was the campaign ad run with a PRESIDENTIAL Obama by the American Red Cross. Yeah, the Red Cross PSA on and for Hurricane Sandy relief ran multiple times in that last week. Imagine the grins on the Obama campaign team at getting free time.

Hey American Red Cross, elections have consequences and the next time you want my charity contribution, guess who won't be listening!

17 posted on 11/09/2012 9:27:09 AM PST by SES1066 (Government is NOT the reason for my existence!)
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To: Zhang Fei
Romney ads were positive that we can do better, that we deserve better.

Obama's ads were about Roe vs Wade and Planned Parenthood.

18 posted on 11/09/2012 10:39:40 AM PST by newzjunkey (Obama thanks Pontius Pilate Freepers for giving him four more years!)
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Hey American Red Cross, elections have consequences and the next time you want my charity contribution, guess who won't be listening!

Anyone with half a brain donating to the American Red Cross should be ashamed. With all the local scandals across the country, the redirected funds and the "missing" (stolen) donations, the tainted blood scandal, they way they treated the military in the past... they deserve to ROT.

19 posted on 11/09/2012 10:44:28 AM PST by newzjunkey (Obama thanks Pontius Pilate Freepers for giving him four more years!)
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