Tea Party's Kansas Failed "Experiment"

[Philly]

[Indy]

[Philly]

[Indy]

See now that actually makes sense.

[nordictruce]

so basically people are stupid. not that I disagree with that statement overall, just making sure we're coming to the same conclusion

[nordictruce]

Here is a question


would an ad like this work in say, California, NY or Washington? I have a theory. All .. not all but the vast majority of stupid people live in the bible belt. I don't think this entire ordeal would fly in say, NY. Too many smart people vote.

[Philly]

Specifically ads about a guy going to a titty bar would probably not work in NY. But dumb ads about trivial or misleading topics would and do work everywhere.

[exploited]

You can't study politics without studying marketing. The modern politician is a product, and the political campaign is the marketing campaign.

Diamond-shaped shreddies have boosted sales enormously. The same product, the same taste, the same design, with vastly different results based upon a stupid and trivial distinction. It works here, why would it not work for politicians?

Presidential campaigns, done right, will get you any job in the marketing world, and that is because they are the same thing.

[Indy]

Well it's interesting that you say that because the creatives they're down to in the governor's race here for each side are just the same two, having nothing to do with issues but completely emotion-based attack ads. Originally there were some that talked about the candidates' stance on issues but that's since been abandoned.

So it's not who has the pension reform or the jobs growth plan it's:

-That guy is corrupt! Or,
-That guy once threatened a woman!

So really not that far from the titty bar ads and this isn't Kansas.

[Philly]

Yep. Irrelevant shit sells. Substantive policy platforms do not.