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Whitman, Unions Swap Misleading Charges

Posted on July 15, 2010 , Corrected on Corrected: July 26, 2010

A coalition of labor unions called California Working Families for Jerry Brown has relentlessly attacked Meg Whitman since she won the Republican gubernatorial nomination June 8. Now Whitman is firing back — accusing Democrat Brown of …
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Loans to Mobsters, Ties to BP? Kirk’s Attack Ads Go Too Far

Posted on July 9, 2010

Republican Rep. Mark Kirk is attacking his Democratic opponent in the Illinois race for the U.S. Senate with two ads that go beyond what the facts support. The ads make unsupported claims about the role Giannoulias played at his family’s troubled bank and strain  to tie him to BP, among …
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Jerry Brown: ‘A Legacy of Failure?’

Posted on July 1, 2010

Republican Meg Whitman is making false claims about Democrat Jerry Brown’s “lifetime in politics” in an attack ad, her first TV spot of the general election campaign. The two are battling to become the next governor of California. The ad claims that “crime soared” while Brown was mayor of Oakland. That’s false. …
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It’s True: Massages, Saunas For Inmates

Posted on June 2, 2010

With the June 8 Nevada primary nearing, there was one TV ad in the Republican Senate race that caught our attention. It’s so outlandish that we thought it couldn’t possibly be true. Did former Nevada Assemblywoman Sharron Angle – a Republican backed by the Tea Party Express and the fiscally …
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A Mis-tweet from McMahon

Posted on May 18, 2010

Linda McMahon’s U.S. Senate campaign recently used the social networking site Twitter to misrepresent former Rep. Robert Simmons’ position on tax credits for businesses and the dividend tax. McMahon and Simmons are battling in Connecticut to become the GOP nominee for Chris Dodd’s Senate seat. Shawn McCoy, deputy communications director …
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Tussling Over TARP

Posted on April 15, 2010

A recent TV ad from Arkansas Lt. Governor Bill Halter claims that Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln "says she voted against bailing out Wall Street." That’s not what Lincoln said. The two are campaigning in the Democratic primary for the Senate. Halter’s ad refers to a Lincoln campaign ad from March in …
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A False Tax Attack

Posted on April 9, 2010

A new Democratic attack ad accuses a Republican House candidate in Hawaii of signing a pledge protecting tax breaks for sending jobs overseas. It could be a prototype of future attack ads against any number of other Republican House members and candidates, most of whom have signed …
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Crist, Rubio Ad War

Posted on March 29, 2010

Florida Gov. Charlie Crist once looked like he’d surely get the GOP nomination in the race to replace outgoing Sen. Mel Martinez. But it’s the former Florida state House speaker, Republican Marco Rubio, who’s currently positioned as the front-runner. With several months to go before the August primary, Crist released …
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And Here We Go: Attack Ad Cites Health Care Vote

Posted on March 23, 2010

Republican businessman Scott Sipprelle, who is running to unseat Democratic Rep. Rush Holt of New Jersey this fall, has launched one of the first TV ads attacking an incumbent on the recent health care vote. In the 30-second spot, which is also the first TV ad of his campaign, Sipprelle …
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