May 09, 2012 11:46 PM UTC

Miklosi, Pace Thank "Compass Colorado" For Raising Name ID

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• by: Colorado Pols

Here’s a new billboard announced by conservative group Compass Colorado, one of 28 going up around the state targeting President Barack Obama and three Colorado congressional candidates: state Reps. Joe Miklosi and Sal Pace, and Congressman Ed Perlmutter.

For starters, there are some fairly obvious problems with the attempt in this billboard to tie Democrats to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, probably first among them the fact that the United States doesn’t purchase oil from Iran. But most people who see this billboard won’t have the first clue who Mahmoud Ahmadinejad even is, and among those who do, most of them will know this association is highly dubious at best.

Our problem is simpler: what the hell is Compass Colorado doing giving Miklosi a free name ID boost? Putting the virtually unknown Miklosi’s name on a billboard next to President Obama will do more to raise Miklosi’s name recognition, something Miklosi desperately needs and probably expects to spend a lot of money on, than it will hurt. Once you realize how few people are going to recognize the man on the right, and find it silly if they do…this billboard helps Miklosi.

It probably helps all three of them, but Miklosi needs it most.