{"id":1061,"date":"2004-07-15T00:23:44","date_gmt":"2004-07-15T07:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=1061"},"modified":"2004-07-15T00:23:44","modified_gmt":"2004-07-15T07:23:44","slug":"ad-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2004\/07\/15\/ad-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"Ad Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"002487\"><\/a>Looking at the tv advertisements, Bush&#8217;s ads are negative attacks on Kerry and Kerry&#8217;s ads are positive biographical ads.  It flies in the face of the commonly held idea (which still has merit, by the way) that Kerry is running as &#8220;Not Bush&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The response to this is: hey, Moveon.org and other organizations like that have ads that are negative.  But, frankly I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;ve actually seen those ads during commercial breaks.  Recall that the networks didn&#8217;t let them air the rather typical contest winner &#8212; focused on the deficit.<\/p>\n<p>The latest Bush ad goes through the votes that Kerry didn&#8217;t cast a vote on due to campaigning.  It&#8217;s a common ad theme against members of the Legislative Branch busy running for president.  The list that the ad brings up is rather meaningless, except &#8230; well&#8230; I want to know one thing:<\/p>\n<p>Did Kerry bother to vote on the Kitten Protection Act?  It&#8217;s almost worse if he didn&#8217;t take the effort to vote on the Kitten Protection Act than if he had shown his hand that he hates kittens and voted no on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking at the tv advertisements, Bush&#8217;s ads are negative attacks on Kerry and Kerry&#8217;s ads are positive biographical ads. It flies in the face of the commonly held idea (which still has merit, by the way) that Kerry is running as &#8220;Not Bush&#8221;. The response to this is: hey, Moveon.org and other organizations like that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}