Reality flies in the face of TV News spin, re: Dems fleeing Obama...

[Atman]

I work for a big Democratic/Progressive ad agency; we are busy as hell right now (I worked until 10:30 last night) producing work for Senators and House members touting their vote FOR HCR, and every one of them wants us to include pics of them posing with Obama. This crapola the teevee news is telling you, the fake Gallup polls (read those MOEs at the bottom of the screen!), are all designed not to measure opinion, rather to shape opinion. They know that if they hammer it home every day that most of your neighbors think Obama is a failure and that they'll be voting to reinstate the Republicans that caused this mess, you might actually believe it and feel like maybe you should, too. It doesn't have to work on EVERYBODY, just enough people to shift the voting pattern a few points. IOW, they're lying to you. Democratic candidates are not afraid of being seen with Obama. On the contrary...they're embracing him.

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[Bitwit1234]

1. Wonder who these pollesters poll

are the on the par of Neilson whose equipment is run by Murdoch. No wonder Fox always leads in the ratings. Guess they only poll republicans.

[RedCloud]

4. Fox leads in ratings because its viewers cannot read, much less think for themselves.

[emulatorloo]

7. A lot of it is how they phrase the questions.

[KittyWampus]

2. Atman, here on Long Island Tim Bishop has an ad doing just what you say. Maybe you even worked

on the one being used!

I'm very, very glad to hear there is finally some real coordination going on.

At least if these ads go local, they reach way more than the talking heads on TV news.

[Atman]

3. Well...

;)

[KittyWampus]

5. I would LOVE to read a post about working in the business. Your take. Or have you?f

[Atman]

6. I think the most interesting part is seeing results when you get home at night.

IOW, even when I was working on my own creating ad campaigns for retail goods or services, I'd never really see the results. Sure, we'd get marketing and sales reports months later and analyze the numbers. But working for national political candidates is cool in that I see them on the news at night, or on Bill Maher's program, or the Sunday morning shows. My wife is sick of me saying "Hey, he/she's one of our clients!" Campaigns I've created or worked on have been discussed as news items on everything from MSNBC to the Washington Post to even Rush Limbaugh (ie: my infamous mailer for Scott Murphy, which won both Reed and Pollie awards this year!) I even designed the graphics for a NASCAR for one candidate. On election nights, I'm like a sports junkie on a Sunday afternoon, switching between channels, watching for my "team's" results. It's fun. I love it. And it gives my mom something to crow about. LOL!