I haven’t had the time to do as much in the way of digging into the DFL ad machine this cycle as in some past cycles.\u00a0 It’s been a crazy summer.<\/p>\n
Fortunately, Bill Glahn is on patrol<\/p>\n
Glahn takes apart one of the latest flight of anti-Johnson ads <\/a>from the Alliance for a Better Minnesota – the attack PR firm funded by liberal plutocrats <\/a>that has run toxic sleaze campaigns against every Republican to run for office in Minnesota in the past eight years or so.\u00a0<\/p>\n ABM’s ads have been punctilious about punching up the phrase “Tea Party” in their ads, especially about Johnson, this cycle – even though Johnson is not <\/em>especially identified with the Tea Party.\u00a0 Glahn reaches one of the same observations I do:<\/p>\n Apparently the pejorative \u201cTea Party Republican\u201d must test particularly well with low information voters. Or, perhaps its use in the ad is a sign the Democrats are concerned about turning out their base in an off-year election.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The Democrats have spent millions this past five years, trying to turn “Tea Party” into a pejorative.\u00a0 If you go by what you hear in the media, it’s worked. If you go by election and polling results in red and reddish-purple states, it hasn’t.\u00a0\u00a0 Minnesota?\u00a0 Well, the 2010 gubernatorial election showed Minnesota has 8,000 more low-information voters (along with Duplicate-Americans, Fictional-Americans and Deceased-Americans) than smart ones.\u00a0 It might be a winning strategy.\u00a0<\/p>\n It might also show that that’s the best they can do; sputtering “Tea Partier” may be the “lowest blow” they think they can come up with.\u00a0<\/p>\n Anyway – the ad.\u00a0 Like everything ABM puts out, it’s got an assortment of outright lies, and factoids stretched so far out of context as to be devoid of truth:\u00a0<\/p>\n