{"id":3867,"date":"2008-10-17T10:23:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T16:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/10\/udalls-ad-gaining-lots-of-attention\/"},"modified":"2008-10-17T10:23:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-17T16:23:00","slug":"udalls-ad-gaining-lots-of-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/10\/udalls-ad-gaining-lots-of-attention\/","title":{"rendered":"Udall’s ad gaining lots of attention"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Tom Udall\u2019s<\/a> new ad featuring a wounded Iraq<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> war veteran is gaining national attention. <\/p>\n

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\u201cWow,\u201d is the only word accompanying the ad in a posting displayed prominently on the Daily Kos home page<\/a>. \u201cGAME OVER!!\u201d states one comment on the posting. \u201cI am (virtually) speechless. That was simple, and extraordinarily powerful. Very well done, indeed. This one is a real tear-jerker,\u201d states another.<\/p>\n

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The ad is also featured prominently on the Huffington Post home page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Democrats and Republicans have been contacting me about this ad since Udall\u2019s campaign unveiled it yesterday. Politicos on both sides have said this ad may be the final nail in the coffin of the campaign of Udall\u2019s opponent, Republican Steve Pearce<\/a>, who is dramatically trailing in the polls.<\/p>\n

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Why? The ad is one of the most effective political spots I\u2019ve ever seen. Not only is it powerful, but it\u2019s also tasteful and simple. It\u2019s not overly partisan. It leaves out the fact that Erik Schei<\/a> and his family members are strong Republicans. It simply lets Schei speak for himself in a very personal and emotional way.<\/p>\n

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Pearce is a huge proponent of the Iraq<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> war. The problem for Pearce is that so many people will be moved by this ad that whenever he tries to bring up war-related issues in the future, many will recall their emotional reactions to this ad and think of how this soldier believes Udall helped him. With this ad, Udall may have just won the debate on one of the issues about which Pearce is most passionate.<\/p>\n

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Is the game over for Pearce? Most I\u2019ve spoken with think nothing short of a miracle can save his campaign — and this ad was close to being a miracle for the other team.<\/p>\n

I already posted the ad on this site<\/a>, but in case you missed it, here it is again:<\/p>\n

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Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Tom Udall\u2019s new ad featuring a wounded Iraq war veteran is gaining national attention. \u201cWow,\u201d is the only word accompanying the ad in a posting displayed prominently on the Daily Kos home page. \u201cGAME OVER!!\u201d states one comment on the posting. \u201cI am (virtually) speechless. That was simple, and extraordinarily powerful. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}