Summary Less than a week after former U.S. Attorney Chris Christie won the right to challenge Democratic New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine as the Republican nominee in the fall gubernatorial contest, the Corzine campaign released two ads with the goal of reminding voters just how Republican Christie is. A number of the ads’ claims are reasonably on target. Christie is anti-abortion, for instance, and opposes new gun control laws. He doesn’t have much to say about global warming, either. But... Click to Read the Full Post
Summary The campaign to fill the vacant House seat in New York’s 20th congressional district is the race that keeps on giving – giving false and misleading ads, at least. Two new spots, one from Democratic businessman Scott Murphy and another from his foe, Republican state Assembly Minority Leader Jim Tedisco, both take liberties with the facts. Tedisco’s spot says Murphy "supported a loophole letting AIG executives keep their bonuses." That’s false. Murphy voiced... Click to Read the Full Post
Summary New York Assembly Minority Leader James Tedisco, a Republican, and businessman Scott Murphy, a Democrat, are battling to fill a House seat in New York’s 20th congressional district that was vacated when its occupant was appointed to the Senate. The special election is scheduled for March 31. Recent ads have included some false and misleading claims: Murphy and the DCCC claim that Tedisco won’t say whether he supports capping salaries for executives of companies receiving... Click to Read the Full Post
We posted two new pieces on the main site today. The first looks at a common theme among Democratic congressional ads: the accusation that Republicans want to gamble away Social Security in risky private investments. We count 58 ads with such charges that have aired since Oct. 1. Read all about how they’re trying to mislead voters in our full story: More Social Security Bunk October 30, 2008 Our second article examines four Spanish-language ads from the presidential campaigns, the National... Click to Read the Full Post
On Sept. 10, we objected when the McCain-Palin campaign released an ad implying that we’d criticized Obama for “completely false” and “misleading” claims about Sarah Palin. We did use those words, but we used them to criticize anonymous Internet rumormongers, not Obama. Now that same claim from the McCain-Palin camp is being recycled into fundraising letters. Here’s the passage from an e-mail from McCain-Palin Victory 2008, a joint project of the Republican National... Click to Read the Full Post
