It may help her or hurt her, but there is no comparison between these 2 ads. O’Donnell ran that ad after the pig Bill Maher embarrassed her by playing old tapes of her appearences on “Politically Incorrect”. She was already on defense when she ran that ad. (And let’s not forget to thank Karl Rove too for putting her there. Thanks Turd Blossom!).
To my mind she handled it all wrong, it was a dreadful ad. If I were going to address that issue I would have gone all light hearted, used the theme song from Bewitched,etc.
BTW, does anyone remember the “demon sheep” ad? Who ran that, was it Carly Fiorina?
That ad made NO SENSE AT ALL.
Here is the backstory on the “I am not a witch “ ad.
Christine did not approve of that ad. She made it under the insistence of the GOP media consultant, I believe his name was Fred Davies.
Immediately after she made that ad, along with others that day, she told Fred not to run it, she did not feel right about it. Fred thought it was the best thing since sliced bread.
Fred, or someone close to him, then let the ad that night out to the media, without Christine’s permission.
Christine only had seven weeks after the primary to win the election. She received 40% of the vote, losing by only 25,000 votes. No GOP candidate for Senate has received more than 35% of the vote in 20 years in DE. Those votes were in New Castle County. And since those NCCo GOP-ers couldn’t have their precious Mike Castle, so they stayed home and let the seat stay with the Dems.
A betrayal by all levels of the GOP. The result was the entire GOP power structure in DE was canned, and replaced.
“BTW, does anyone remember the “demon sheep” ad? Who ran that, was it Carly Fiorina?
That ad made NO SENSE AT ALL.”
Yes, but it was a primary ad and she won the primary.
And a make no sense ad mostly costs money.
Then there is the horrible ad that costs money and the election which is what Pete Hoekstra did with his anti asian ad.