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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, is very much on Democrats' minds in 2006. But Schumer learned the lesson in his Senate race against Alfonse D'Amato in 1998. "Fonzi attacked me for being soft on crime, and we came right back at him with a tough series of ads with the tagline 'Alfonse D'Amato: too many lies for too long.'" Schumer says that perhaps the most important ad run by a Democrat this year appeared in July in the Ohio Senate race...
...Republican, Mike DeWine, had put up a spot that called into question Democrat Sherrod Brown's record on national security, using a smudged, smoking, slightly distorted image of the World Trade Center terrorist attack. The thrust of the ad was accurate: Brown is a mortal dove who repeatedly voted against increases in the intelligence budget. And the attack had been expected. "Our candidates were really worried about how to counter the Republicans on national security," says J.B. Poersch, executive Director of the DSCC. "It's what worked against...
...began, "It's sad. Mike DeWine exploiting images of 9/11 to smear Sherrod Brown ..." and quickly pivoted to Brown's favorite issue: [DeWine] supported trade deals with China, even after thousands of lost jobs and the transfer of sensitive military technology ..." Polls show Brown well ahead now-and the ad also had a spillover effect. "Our other candidates saw Brown's success," says Poersch, "and they began to feel confident that they could survive Republican national-security attacks...
...this weekend's opening--it's being discussed on college campuses everywhere. Which is impressive, since a big part of the marketing campaign has been conducted inadvertently by the government of Kazakhstan. It first threatened legal action against Baron Cohen, then took out a somewhat unsuccessful four-page tourism ad in the New York Times ("The country is home to the world's largest population of wolves"), and finally gave up and invited the comic to visit. Baron Cohen is considering the offer as the ultimate opportunity to conflate his made-up character with reality. "I would absolutely love...
...these nice ladies? They're the powers behind the Kaplan Thaler Group, a hot New York City ad agency that had $900 million in billings last year. The duo created the iconic AFLAC duck, and clients include Procter & Gamble, Continental Airlines, Pfizer, Revlon and Office Depot. Thaler and Koval attribute their success in part to practicing what they preach in their 195-employee office. (Of course, having terrific creative work helps too.) At Kaplan Thaler, everyone gets a callback, and every résumé gets answered. "We may not have a job for somebody," says Thaler, "but everybody deserves the respect...