Entirely missing from all the election analysis: really horrible TV ads. The reason Trump won is not because Democrats didn't listen to working class people, but because working class people listened to Trump's torrent of lies. Nothing was more dishonest than ads by Trump featuring images of threatening looking mobs squeezing through fen…
Entirely missing from all the election analysis: really horrible TV ads. The reason Trump won is not because Democrats didn't listen to working class people, but because working class people listened to Trump's torrent of lies. Nothing was more dishonest than ads by Trump featuring images of threatening looking mobs squeezing through fences while the voiceover claimed "Kamala Harris gave your social security money to illegals immigrants!" This played over and over - and was completely unaddressed by the Harris campaign. It need ed to be directly confronted by a Harris TV ad revealing the lies Trump was putting on TV. Pundits now are overlooking the hundreds of millions spent on ads that saturate the brains of people to ignore all the policies under discussion and go with fear-mongering conducted in their TV screens day in and day out.
Agree but how do you respond to this ? Tv stations are forced to carry this garbage (on the news side however they fact check, find duplicate sources and don’t report rumors). The ads are worse than terrible. And we are bombarded with them for far too many weeks and months. I dearly wish station managers could reject advertising for reason of crude inaccurate content. And I wish the campaign was limited to 2-3 months before an election. None of this will happen of course. We put poor souls in jail for possession of pornography but we allow political lies in the name of free press.
Entirely missing from all the election analysis: really horrible TV ads. The reason Trump won is not because Democrats didn't listen to working class people, but because working class people listened to Trump's torrent of lies. Nothing was more dishonest than ads by Trump featuring images of threatening looking mobs squeezing through fences while the voiceover claimed "Kamala Harris gave your social security money to illegals immigrants!" This played over and over - and was completely unaddressed by the Harris campaign. It need ed to be directly confronted by a Harris TV ad revealing the lies Trump was putting on TV. Pundits now are overlooking the hundreds of millions spent on ads that saturate the brains of people to ignore all the policies under discussion and go with fear-mongering conducted in their TV screens day in and day out.
Agree but how do you respond to this ? Tv stations are forced to carry this garbage (on the news side however they fact check, find duplicate sources and don’t report rumors). The ads are worse than terrible. And we are bombarded with them for far too many weeks and months. I dearly wish station managers could reject advertising for reason of crude inaccurate content. And I wish the campaign was limited to 2-3 months before an election. None of this will happen of course. We put poor souls in jail for possession of pornography but we allow political lies in the name of free press.