I’m told the ad is backed by a $500,000 buy. Meanwhile, according to media buy information, AFP has already spent over $7.2 million on ads targeting Hagan, one of four incumbents who will be key to whether Dems hold the Senate. So this underscores how lopsided spending is right now. Dem operatives who are sounding the alarm about the spending disparity appear genuinely worried. In substantive terms, what’s noteworthy about this ad is that it goes after the GOP repeal stance:The "old system." Oh, like the old healthcare system that actually worked?
Senate candidate Thom Tillis sides with health insurance companies. He’d let them deny coverage for preexisting conditions, and raise rates for women needing mammograms. Tillis supports a plan that would end Medicare as we know it, and force seniors to spend up to $1,700 more for prescriptions. Thom Tillis. He’s with the special interests. Hurting North Carolina families.The ad never mentions “Obamacare” or the “Affordable Care Act” or even “health reform.” This reflects the dilemma Dems face in red states. The overall law — and its chief sponsor – remain deeply unpopular. But Dems believe the full repeal stance is also problematic — and they have to stand behind the law – so they are emphasizing the components in it that remain popular, while arguing Republicans would do away with those things and return us to the old system.
F-king morons.
Watch the ad at the link.
Kay Hagan's gonna be out on her ass, the dumb [four letter word here].
More at National Journal, "Another Democrat Apologizes for Obamacare."
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