Stace Nelson dooms his candidacy by putting Heidelberger in his first TV ad... ...my crazy cousin Aaron Heidelberger, that is. He's the guy in the red shirt. Smartly, Stace and his production crew keep the ad off full-reserve banking and…
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The Displaced Plainsman is right: Larry Rhoden's new TV ad for his U.S. Senate campaign is a bunch of bull: Larry, get real. Liberals aren't out to destroy anyone's way of life. Big spenders may be, but they are the…
In the Comparative Propaganda Department, Rick Weiland passes with flying colors the South Dakota authenticity test that Marion Michael Rounds flunked: Windmill, small-town bars, tire on fencepost, men in work-worn baseball caps, snowy Sioux Falls parade—totally South Dakota. The ad…
GOP U.S. Senate candidate Marion Michael Rounds made a flop of a campaign ad. Stung by criticism in the national press and from opponent Larry Rhoden for filling his ad with non-South Dakotan stock photography, Rounds showed more un-frontrunnerly weakness…
On Friday, I reported that Marion Michael Rounds had posted a video for his U.S. Senate campaign consisting of himself delivering an over-polished, inauthentic pitch backed entirely by stock photographs of non-South Dakotans. On Sunday, Roll Call caught the story…
Marion Michael Rounds's new campaign video reeks of inauthenticity: The fake smile, the fake delivery, the fake tone polished past the point of real connection to your audience... ...and the series of stock photos that shout, "I'm too busy to…
Fake U.S. Senate candidate Annette Bosworth is back to botching her marketing. Yesterday afternoon, Bosworth campaign worker Daniel Freeman sent an e-mail seeking volunteers to help with the campaign website. The campaign e-mail included 22 e-mail addresses in the open…
An eager reader forwards a fundraising letter he received from the Republican National Committee, who insist that America is lost if he doesn't send his $25: Obama shocking, America unrecognizable, shredding Constitution, "government control over all aspects of your life"—yadda…