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Old 10-27-2012, 09:36   #1
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BHO Economics Ad

BHO ad based upon his economics remarks.

http://front.moveon.org/brilliant-a-...email.10262012

I fear the message and style of this one will appeal to many people out there - especially among the younger voters.

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Old 10-27-2012, 09:46   #2
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Style vs. Content.
I fear your correct.
As a conservative, I think about WHAT is being said, WHAT is being done.
But, as with the "First time" ad by BHO, the look & feel appeal more than the truth.
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Old 10-27-2012, 15:16   #3
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Old 10-30-2012, 20:04   #4
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I fear the message and style of this one will appeal to many people out there - especially among the younger voters.

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I believe you're right about it appealing not only to young voters but some older voters as well. For more than two yeasrs I've used a lot of broadband on other parts of the internet giving long rebuttals to these clever spins on the truth about how free market enterprise works.

I know the subject so well because I was indoctrinated in liberal academia as an econ major in this Keynsian bullshit. As a young liberal naive teenager, it sounded great to me too until the military started sending me overseas and I became an actual practicioner within the free market.

I wish I'd catalogued those many posts over the two years - as I'm tired of repeating the rebuttals - but to encapsulate, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton preached the principles of supply side principles (tax cuts) to spur the economy.

George Bush started out his Administration doing the same thing but was interrupted by this little thing called 9/11. I love it when the Obama Campaign talks about how bad the economy was in 2001. I roll my eyes everytime.
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Old 10-30-2012, 20:43   #5
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Of course it will appeal to simple minded individuals, but at this stage of the game I do not see it as advancing his status with the voters. For the most part we adults are past getting excited over clever animation. This seemed to have FACEBOOK all over it maybe we should report it to FACEBOOK and try to get it removed as offensive, you all saw what that horse did?
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Old 10-30-2012, 21:05   #6
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Richard I say your right on the whole appealing to young voters but not just them, like already said older voters and anyone that just goes onto FB or Twiter and reads what is there and believes in anything is posted there. This I do believes that it is targeting the FB masses and their inability to recognize half truths.

I feel both parties missed this boat, the FB Boat.. the social media marketing and sites for their campaigning ideas. Yes they may have "posted" some ads there. But social media marketing is the key to future business'. Why wouldn;t it be a main factor in campaigning ads??

If I was dumb and/or young I would "LIKED" this post.
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