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To: Road Walker who wrote (306231)	10/13/2006 5:01:40 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1577883

re: Good article. Considering the source it was interesting. The local ads here are "unusual". Almost all are attack ads from outside groups, and the few that are supporting a candidate never mention a party, Rep or Dem. I think both parties are held in such low esteem that the candidates don't want the label. What a huge change in US politics! The GOP ads for McGavick are strange. The first ones.......he was so milktoatish/mild mannered I thought he wasn't McGavick but a spokesperson........and I was going to recommend he get a new one. It was after the third ad I began to realize it was him. The next set of ads he was more forceful.......someone must have made the same observation that I did after watching the first set. With each set, he changes the clothes he's wearing.....the first set he had a blue shirt and slacks on; the second set jeans and a shirt; the third set a suit. That's pretty atypical for a politician. And 'his message' somehow gets lost in this miasma. At the end of each ad, it says "to be continued" which I think was intended to be cool but comes off strange. There is a distinctive tone to the ads created by PNW ad companies......so much so that I would bet his ads were created outside the PNW. Meanwhile, Cantwell is ahead even though she's no prize. However, her ads while not all that creative are pretty good at getting her message across. As for the attack ads in FLA, that's pretty common practice........you don't want people tieing the ad to the candidate or his party. All McGavick's attack ads are done by some outside group and neither his name nor his party's name is anywhere to be found in the ads. The time is ripe for a third (and maybe 4th) party... but the deck is stacked against it happening. Too bad... I would like to see multiple parties as well but people have lost so much interest in the democratic process, it seems the current two parties can barely keep people involved.I think its why DC has gotten so corrupted........I am afraid to say it but I think Americans just don't care any more. Even the people in my endorsement area, social studies, don't want to talk about the election and they should be a natural. We'll probably lose our democracy out of default.