September 24, 2010 05:41 PM UTC

The 65+ Demographic and social security: How is that DSCC attack ad working?

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• by: H-man

The largest benefactor of appointed Senator Bennet’s campaign is the DSCC which has spent over $1.5 million dollars to date attacking his opponent, Ken Buck.  One of the lines of attack has been to target senior citizens, a very important demographic in an off year election cycle, by targeting Buck’s stance on social security.  The ad is part of their Buck is extreme campaign. 9news has done an analysis of the ad which can be found here. http://www.9news.com/rss/artic… It puts the ads claims in some context.

Buck has come out with his own ad targeting the demographic:

So far, the Bennet campaign and their benefactors at the DSCC have not given voters a reason to vote “for” Michael Bennet.  They have instead tried to scare seniors to vote “against” Ken Buck.  So with all the targeting of the 65+ demographic, what is the voter’s scorecard?  

Buck has an overwhelming lead in this group, 53 to 38 over Bennet, according to the recently released CNN/Time poll.