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5 Dishonest Ad Campaigns Coming Your Way For Election 2012

Wed, 02/01/2012 - 13:30 — Dave Culver
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  • These five themes will dominate the airwaves as the election season heats up.
  • Republican Attacks Have Racist Undertone

Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet

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Making Americans angry, pretending they’re political outsiders, fanning race-based fears, attacking liberals and unions, and casting Obama as a "failed" and "illegitimate" president will be cornerstones of the Republican road to retake the White House, according to an analysis of the first wave of GOP political ads in the 2012 campaign. 

These five themes can be found in the Republican television and radio ads seen from last year and into next Tuesday’s (Jan 31) Florida primary, as broadcast by the GOP’s presidential candidates or their allied super-PACs. Whether candidates have since dropped out is irrelevant, because this first wave of ads is a test-marketing phase to see what sticks.

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Republican Attacks Have Racist Undertones, Andrew Rosenthal, New York (NY) Times
Talking about race in American politics is uncomfortable and awkward. But it has to be said: There has been a racist undertone to many of the Republican attacks leveled against President Obama for the last three years, and in this dawning presidential campaign.
 

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