Monday, October 23, 2006

Why Political Ads Suck

The National Republican Congressional Committee is running an ad that Michael Arcuri the Democratic candidate for a House seat from NY, which says he made calls to a sex hotline while at a conference in New York City.

"Arcuri said that number was dialed by accident by Sean Byrne, the executive director of the New York Prosecutor Training Institute, who was meeting with him and others in the hotel room. Byrne also said that was the case, and records show immediately following the call to the sex line, he called the same seven digits, but with a 518 area code, not an 800 prefix."

This is political debate in this country. Meanwhile Claire McCaskill is a Democrat running for the MO Senate seat. She's running this heart-wrenching ad, but at least it's not a lie.

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