Comments on: Tarryl Clark is not Michele Bachmann https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/09/06/tarryl-clark-is-not-michele-ba/ Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:48:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: jaf https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/09/06/tarryl-clark-is-not-michele-ba/#comment-522854 Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:48:13 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/09/06/tarryl-clark-is-not-michele-ba/#comment-522854 Addendum:
Mark Kennedy ran against Amy Klobuchar in 2006 for US Senate. I don’t think she ran attack ads either. (I think the media/editorials covered the political scope.)
Klobuchar won in a landslide.
I believe her ads were positive but not fluff, since she had things she actually did as an attorney. Again, this was 4 years ago, so I don’t remember all of the details.

]]> By: jaf https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/09/06/tarryl-clark-is-not-michele-ba/#comment-522853 Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:45:06 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/09/06/tarryl-clark-is-not-michele-ba/#comment-522853 There is one bit of substance in her article–her taking a pay cut and thinking Congress should, too. That’s an issue.
The rest is fluff, but it’s also fluff Michele Bachmann has done (“I’m a mom, go me!”)

I wonder if we can find a way to make positive, non-smear ads work.

(Mark Kennedy did them a few years back and he lost, but I’m okay with that, because I didn’t agree with him on the issues. Oh, and his ads were also about his personality and not so much the issues.)

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