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California: Davis shows no sign of letting up on ad onslaught -
The Contra Costa Times ^
| Aug. 12, 2002
| Alexa H. Bluth
Posted on 08/12/2002 10:45:14 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Edited on 04/13/2004 3:29:41 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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"Bill Simon has been campaigning seven days a week, from one end of the state to the other," Miner said. "After $10 million of advertising, what does Gray Davis have to show for it?"Simon is working hard the old fashioned way!
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
bump
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posted on
08/12/2002 10:56:24 AM PDT
by
NEWwoman
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Davis led Simon by 41 percent to 34 percent in a statewide Field Poll released July 11. Unbelievable. What are the people of Calif. thinking? Simon should be ahead 75 to 25 no matter how many adds the professional fund raiser puts out.
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posted on
08/12/2002 10:58:19 AM PDT
by
mad puppy
To: NEWwoman
It really means that Californians are TOO UNEDUCATED or TOO LAZY to get off their duffs and actually go find out information, even get online and research who these candidates are! NO, they rely on the BOOB-TUBE for their information...it's called that for a REASON!
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Non-Stop Attack Ads .. Im So Immune to Them After What Seem Like Thousands of 'Em... Tell Us Something New GraYouT!! Or Truthful At Least! .. Geesh! ...
Simon will be back on the air soon enough. The maids will probably be back, too .. With Shovels, Big 'Uns for the Manure!
DUMP DAVI$ & the Den of Socialists
GO SIMON
To: NormsRevenge
LOL!
To: mad puppy
The article quoted two Field Polls. What it didn't mention is that out of eleven polls I've seen, those are
the only two polls showing Davis leading.Simon leads in the other nine.
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posted on
08/12/2002 11:20:39 AM PDT
by
Coop
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
How dare anyone imply that the news organizations at the media outlets (which are accepting Davis' ads hand over fist) have a conflict of interest! The reason they aren't repeatedly asking Davis to explain his lies is because "the issue isn't newsworthy." < /sarcasm > Their personal bias has nothing at all to do with this lack of coverage either.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
SHARPTON-GORE FOR 2004!
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; Gophack; Coop; ElkGroveDan
From the article, an irresistable tidbit:
I'm one of those who believes that if this gets too negative, the winner might be the one who has the most friends and relatives because I think the rest of us will stay home on Election Day," he said.
I wish I could be a fly on the wall in some of those focus groups South claims to have used, because I think the Davis ads stink.
I notice how the article did its best to spin a positive for Davis - yes, Simon's negatives are up, but Davis' support is still down against Simon. And in the end, that's what matters.
D
To: daviddennis
I am getting worried. I am really in to politics, but my wife could care less.
Last night, I was reading FR and my wife asked me what news I was reading. I mentioned a couple of articles about Bill Simon. She said "Isn't he the guy running for Governor? I saw that he drove a couple of businesses into the ground"!
Fortunately, she is apolitical and doesn't even vote, but it just goes to show how effective Davis' attack ads have been...
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posted on
08/12/2002 1:02:51 PM PDT
by
RFH
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
If Bill Simon Can't Be Trusted To Run A Campaign GoGov.com - R. Betts
"If Bill Simon can not be trusted to run a corporation, how can he be trusted with the World's fifth largest economy?" - Campaign ad of California Governor Gray Davis.
The political come backs to that one are so numerous given the current economic state of California it can only be sheer ineptitude that explains the silence of the Republican nominee for governor Bill Simon and his campaign. This attack ad now bombarding the California airways is after all from a man that took the budget of the fifth largest economy in the world into the tank.
Having in less than one year run the California budget from a surplus of over $12 billion to a budget deficit that would shut down most third world countries, Davis explains the state energy debacle and resulting stratospheric losses occurring under his watch was not his fault. It was the greedy, corrupt big oil and energy companies that did it.
That would be the same companies that chose only California and Gray Davis to pick on. Or is it that all the rest of the nation's governors were just a tad bit smarter?
Either way is reason enough to vote Davis out of office. The problem is, no one has told that to the Simon campaign. While California sits on a huge deficit, the Simon campaign sits on its hands.
Thanks to Davis, California no longer counts on a budget surplus. Thanks to another wholly inept Republican party campaign, no one will be making an issue of it.
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posted on
08/12/2002 1:06:01 PM PDT
by
BJungNan
To: RFH
It's possible that I'm sanguine because I don't watch TV and therefore have not seen the ads except when I visit Gray Davis' web site to view them.
But then again, the less politically active someone is, the more likely they are to believe the ads, and the less likely they are to vote. Your wife is a case in point.
If Davis wants to spend millions of dollars to convince non-voters, well, he can be my guest :-).
D
To: daviddennis
I don't watch TV either. I can't stand the liberal propaganda that passes for balanced news reporting and have been spared the sight of GrayDown's commercials. Hey, what do I know?? ;-)
To: Republicus2001
You provide so much to this forum. Thank you!
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posted on
08/12/2002 1:21:42 PM PDT
by
Coop
To: Coop
I tip my hat now I'm gonna go tell Tommie D. on you...
To: goldstategop
I've seen 'em because I visit http://www.gray-davis.com/ and watch them over the web. (Hey, look at the sacrifices I make for you guys!) Personally, I think the strongest effect they'll have is to discourage voting.
I like the Simon commercials a lot better at http://www.simonforgovernor.com/ . The humourous ones are quite entertaining, you should take a look.
D
To: daviddennis
Have any of you ever heard such horrible reviews, over and over, for a movie that you skipped it in the theater but when you finally rented it and took it home it didn't seem all that bad?
You think maybe when people actually see Simon's not a monster that the same effect might be in play here? Maybe Davis is shooting himself in the foot!
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