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September 29, 2006 06:38 PM UTC

Friday Poll

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  • by: Colorado Pols

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The Ads for Which Candidate Have Been the Most Effective?

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  1. He’s doing the best with what he’s got – by that yardstick maybe. But he comes across looking like exactly the 14-year-old nerd he says he is.

    And if I want “change” in D.C. I sure as heck ain’t gonna vote for a Bush bootlicker. (His latest “fire Rumsfeld” switch is pure desperation.)

  2. Gotta go with Rick O’Donnell on this one.  I liked the ‘grocery store thing’ (and the “ding, dongs” are fun in the ad) and really think the ‘apology’ piece is sharp (love the “I was wrong then, Perlmutter is wrong now” quip.)

    He has a top-notch media consultant – no argument there.  But his personality comes through in these ads, and I just like them even more as time goes by.

    Counter them to Beauprez’s ads – which at first I thought decent – and we see what happens when you employ the wrong consultant.  Those folksy barn commercials worked in the presidential election, as did his bank ads when he first ran, but now they just seem re-run and tired.  Plus, Bob looks old, tired and worn.  Road worn would be the term.

    But Rick – he’s new blood. Excitement.  Fresh perspective.

    And I need to add this:  in the ad with Beauprez asking if I’ve lost faith in government, I want to yell at the TV saying “you fool, you were PART OF THE GOVERNMENT while I was losing faith in it!!!”

    1. And I never knew just how funny Angie looked until I saw her in the ads.  She comes off as short, ill-proportioned and, well, manly.  Sure, I’d see her running around the capitol and in the papers.  Even testified against her.  But actually seeing her on TV made me really scrutinize her.  She needs a wardrobe consultant, and different color palate, a hair dresser and film crew that knows to cut her at the waist.  Voters will vote on appearances, and Angie didn’t do herself a favor with these.

      1. I would put my money on it that little Ricky O’Donnel spends more money on coiffure, teeth whitening, makeup, etc. than Angie. Dosen’t matter though.  At least you won’t catch her in that godawful pink dress – they should save that for the smithsonian or something. 

        1.   Little Ricky does look like he spends an awful lot of time working on his appearance.  Just reminds me of what Oscar Wilde said:  “In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity is the vital thing.”

      2. … than the incumbent. I think that’s a wash.

        Plus, if glamour and a long, lean figure is important for women candidates, Katherine Harris would be leading by 30 instead of losing by 30. Fortunately voters aren’t influenced by that stuff too much.

    2. I liked the kid in the store ad. It got pulled at the right time as it was getting tiresome and he was getting younger by the minute.

      I thought his Soc Sec ad was the best this season. How often do you hear a politician come out and admit he was wrong? Last one I remember was Reagan.

    3. because they make him seem like a real person.  Ed’s daughter’s just annoy the crap out of me, they aren’t cute and seem to old to be talking like.  Everything about Ed’s spots seem canned.

      I also agree that Angie has a face for radio.

      1. I’ve met Ed’s daughters, and I’m comfortable saying that they’re a good click smarter than your average CoPols poster.  What do you want them to do in a political spot?  Recite a brief oratory on Byron’s lesser known Greek period?  How does Ricky D get so much love for the ‘adorable geek’ spots, but Ed  shouldn’t show voters that he’s a devoted family man and successful father of three? 

  3. Is it his “Michael Brown Collection” rolled-up light-blue shirt? Is it whatever that thing is he’s holding in his limp left wrist? Is it that incredibly fake barnyard setting? Is it the fact that Beauprez looks like his joints have been glued in place?

    “Hold me accountable” isn’t a compelling reason to elect him governor. Neither is “umm humm, illegal immigrants…” or whatever the heck he’s mumbling about that topic. (Oh yeah, I remember: he wants us to elect him so he can lead a governors’ delegation with pitchforks and firebrands to the Capitol get something done about illegal immigration. I still don’t quite understand why he can’t lobby more effectively now, as a sitting Congressman.)

    Ritter’s “walking amidst the windmills” is pretty standard positive-ad fare, but it works for him. What do people like about BWB’s efforts?

      1. He drops it when he’s yelling at staffers and attorneys. Guy also knows how to cuss like no tomorrow, but in his ads he tries to be the grandpa Joe you never had from Burlington.  Which make me hate them for being disingenuous.

    1. Because working all night and sleeping all day lets me avoid watching primetime where I can. 

      Still, all of the ads I have seen absolutely baffle me.  Nothing of what I’ve seen would cause me to vote for any of them.  I think the whole bunch and their advisors have gone insane. 

      I recall from Marketing 101 that television was the most expensive least effective per dollar form of communication.  These people are selling their souls and doing stupid contortions on positions to get the money to buy T.V. time.  So I know their name?  I despair deeply for the Republic.

      Why would I want to vote for someone because they worked in a grocery store at 14?  First, if I recall correctly, you would need an under-age work permit, for the very good reason we discourage child labor and want 14 year olds to be socializing with their peers and concentrating on academics.  Next, I worked stocking at 17 & 18 and find many years later it imparted no particularly deep insight into say, the issues of national defense. 

      Graduate study at the National Defense University, now that would impress me.

  4. O’Donnell and Beauprez are losing by 15-20 points in every reputable poll, I don’t know how anyone could argue that theirs have been effective.

    But if that is how you measure “effectiveness” then I hope they keep on doing what they’ve been doing!

    I actually think that Musgrave’s anti-Angie on immigration ad is quite effective—as much as it pains me to say so.

    Here’s hoping that Angie is up with an ad with Musgrave’s quote to the Christian Coalition that gay marriage is the most important issue facing out nation.  That would be a killer ad.  Are you listening Angie????

    1. For that ad, anyway.  The first one; not the apology.  If I lived in his district, I’d relish the opportunity to vote against him in the congressional election.  But man, that’s just one nice ad.  Even the apology ad, while not a high point of the campaign, was the best it could be given the circumstance.

      His problem is that he’s a bad candidate, not that he has bad ads.

  5. Aren’t these supposed to be the msot effective ads?  I don’t see too many people sticking up for Beauprez, but the O’Donnell boosters are under the influence of some pretty wishful thinking.

    O’Donnell’s ads – one strangley makes him look like a little boy (who wants the junior high school monitor representing them in Congress?), the other is a forced apology piece that he had to make for purposes of damage control.  I’m seriously not impressed.  One has no real message and makes an impact like a whiffle ball, and the other they were forced into doing .  Not a real strong position when you have to spend media money just to try and get your candidate squared up with public opinion. 

    Considering that he’s still getting walloped in the polls, I’d be curious to know where the O’Donnell supporters think he’d be at if his ads weren’t just so awsome?

  6. I don’t think his manner of speaking makes him sound very intelligent. I don’t really care about “down home” candidates. I want to have the sense that the candidate is smart and the way the person speaks says a lot to me.

  7. Bush has destroyed the conservative, down-home, folksy angle for all Republican candidate ads.  We now associate the folksy, regular-guy political ads, as – “that guy has no clue how to run a government organization – he should probably stay in the barn”.

    1. Bush has definately made a cartoon out of what was already a pretty silly premise, but I don’t think we’ve seen the last of the pastoral everyman posturing.  There are places in this country where you might as well quit if you run a commercial featuring a candidate looking like a stuffed shirt white collar operator or a lacoste wearing genteleman of leisure.  There’s a strong association in this country with country life and common sense/honesty, and the PR goldmine isn’t tapped yet.  But, like you say, Bush and his trail threshing antics have certainly rolled back the credibility factor.

  8. I really like the short, 15 second spots that simply comment on an issue.  They come off well, and almost believable (at least for political ads).  This is especially true given the negative tone of the ads run by the Trailhead Group/Coloradoans for Justice/whatever the ____ they want to call themselves so it doesn’t look like they are coordinating with Beauprez (even though it looks like they are).  The latter ads have been so negative that I am starting to think that Ritter is getting a bit of sympathy vote out of the whole mess, or at least make Beauprez look less attractive.

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