{"id":11707,"date":"2010-07-01T05:49:30","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T10:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11707"},"modified":"2010-07-01T06:15:28","modified_gmt":"2010-07-01T11:15:28","slug":"arms-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11707","title":{"rendered":"Arms Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As AP at Hot Air <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2010\/06\/29\/video-gop-candidates-shooting-machine-guns-in-ads-to-get-attention-now\/\">notes<\/a>, Pam Gorman &#8211; who&#8217;s running for Congress in Arizona CD3, but first faces <em>six<\/em> other conservative Republicans in the primary &#8211; has upped the ante on &#8220;memorable&#8221; ads.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"289\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/GqnjzONrPiA&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"289\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/GqnjzONrPiA&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>AP takes a whack at summing it all up:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The real question isn&#8217;t so much &#8220;is this what political advertising is about today?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No.\u00a0 It&#8217;s &#8220;what will an opponent have to come up with that&#8217;ll make a bigger impression than a 1928 Thompson?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Suggestions solicited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As AP at Hot Air notes, Pam Gorman &#8211; who&#8217;s running for Congress in Arizona CD3, but first faces six other conservative Republicans in the primary &#8211; has upped the ante on &#8220;memorable&#8221; ads. AP takes a whack at summing it all up: The real question isn&#8217;t so much &#8220;is this what political advertising is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,16,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-10","category-conservatism","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11707"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11709,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11707\/revisions\/11709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}