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...simple video -- a TV actor speaking about his illness, his body wracked by spasms. In the pantheon of YouTube phenomena, Michael J. Fox's Missouri Senate ad is no Evolution of Dance or lonelygirl15. Unlike the online videos that usually catch on, it has no white rappers or cool choreographed treadmill routines; no one lip-synchs or makes a geyser with Diet Coke and Mentos. Yet this short TV spot may have done more than any other to show YouTube's potential as a political force. In the ad, Fox, a longtime Parkinson's disease sufferer, endorsed Democratic Senate hopeful...
...might not have paid any attention to the stem-cell issue before the celebrity dustup roused their curiosity. (Just what made Rush so mad? How shaky does Alex P. Keaton look now, anyway?) In a past election, viewers might have seen the controversial ads only if they lived in Missouri or caught them on the news. Now they can find them, in full, at their leisure. They can also expand on, rebut or parody the ads, as numerous YouTubers did, including breatheasy7000, a woman whose 17-second video in support of Fox drew 200,000 views on the apparent oratorical...
...other words, the controversy took a local race and--through YouTube's free distribution--nationalized it. The Democrats, whose holy grail has been to nationalize the midterms, owe Limbaugh a fruit basket. (The flap probably had less effect in Missouri, where the ads would have got notice anyway.) True, Rush's side got exposure too, but on a national level the Fox video seems more effective. It discusses the issue in emotional terms that people in any state can understand (whether or not they agree). The response ad begins, bafflingly, with Caviezel speaking in untranslated Aramaic, the historical language...
...South who were raised as Democrats but tend to be culturally conservative. The group eschews party loyalty in favor of candidates offering practical solutions to problems like education, security and health care and is "very critical," says a top G.O.P. strategist, in the deadlocked Senate races in Missouri, Tennessee and Virginia. To take the Senate, Democrats probably need to win at least two of the races in those red-state redoubts...
...fight for the matron vote can get rough. Senator Jim Talent, the Missouri incumbent who faces a hard contest against state auditor Claire McCaskill, has spent heavily on ads accusing her of failing to investigate abusive nursing homes. And last week in Virginia, Republicans spent more than $1 million on TV ads attacking challenger James Webb for, among other things, a 1979 article opposing women in combat and his novels, whose raunchy sex scenes incumbent George Allen called "demeaning to women." This close to Election Day, there are still plenty of votes to scrap for: a recent Missouri poll found...