October 10, 2006
Show 'Em You're A Tiger
How do you keep the attention of an electorate focused on baseball? 
Look no further than Michigan, where Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D) and Dick DeVos (R) use the Detroit Tigers' Comerica Field to make competing arguments about who is responsible for job losses in the state.
DeVos lobbed the first pitch last week with this ad. It argues that Granholm's support for business taxes and lackluster effort to fight for jobs has caused a loss of jobs that could "fill Detroit's ballpark. Twice." In a response ad released Monday, Granholm's campaign notes the DeVos spot, before turning the argument against him. The narrator says that Bush administration policies supported by DeVos have caused enough job losses to "fill not one, not two, not three, but four stadiums." And to drive the point home, it ends with one last baseball analogy: "It's time to tell Dick DeVos his game is over."
DeVos and Granholm are scheduled to debate tonight, though the meeting will likely be overshadowed by -- you guessed it -- the Tigers, who open the American League Championship Series in Oakland. It's a safe bet that these ads, if aired during the game, will attract more eyeballs.
Posted at 01:34 PM
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I find it incredible that Sen. Clinton has such memory loss, does she not recall it was her President Clinton and former President Jimmy Carter who provided the supercomputers and finances to the North Koreans for a promise? Is she unaware that Vice President Al Gore and her husbands administration allowed the Russians to sell nuclear materials to Iran in addition to selling them nuclear submarines? The direlection of duty and total incompetence of the Clinton administration is on display for the world to see and no mountain of "lies and revisionism" will cover up for that mistake. Shame on the press, and Republicans to allow this woman to continue with these lies unchallenged! Please ask Sen. Clinton what it was Sandy Berger was stealing out of the archives?
S.M. Beavers | 10.10.06 03:02 PM
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