Coming soon: Fewer ads about how Maggie Hassan is devilspawn

By adamg on Fri, 10/07/2022 - 4:45pm

AdImpact Politics reports the National Republican Senatorial Committee has just canceled $2.6 million in ad buys for the New Hampshire senate race, which means Bostonians should soon see fewer ads featuring angry announcers heaping scorn on pixellated, darkened images of Maggie Hassan, which we have been getting because New Hampshire is too dinky a state to have more than one commercial TV station.

H/t Doodlemom.

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Comments

I don't watch much live TV

By ZachAndTired on Fri, 10/07/2022 - 5:36pm.

I don't watch much live TV anymore, but every single Pats game has led off with some over the top ad about how Maggie Hassan doesn't want to fund Border Patrol enough or whatever. I guess people in New Hampshire must be terrified that Quebec will invade at any moment.

They are coming

By SamWack on Fri, 10/07/2022 - 7:44pm.

to make us eat poutine, and cover our freedoms in gravy.

Do not be fooled

By bgl on Fri, 10/07/2022 - 8:45pm.

Their real goal is to take over Vermont's superior maple syrup supply to finally subsume it into their evil syndicate syrup monopoly and eradicate the last hold out vestiges of free mapple syrup in the world.

Don't underestimate…

By Jimmy Jam on Sat, 10/08/2022 - 7:18am.

Don't underestimate the influence of Big Syrup. They may have an inferior product but have already infiltrated NY and NH.

That's not the primary motive

By tachometer on Sat, 10/08/2022 - 9:57am.

Their real desire is to impose the metric system via force.

My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it!

That’s okay

By Waquiot on Fri, 10/07/2022 - 5:43pm.

As long as we are constantly reminded that Chris Pappas is the most powerful member of the United States House of Representatives.

Also amusing

By SwirlyGrrl on Fri, 10/07/2022 - 7:33pm.

How every GOP candidate will be able to single handedly "fix" everything as a lone something or other, including non-federal stuff.

Not be one of 100 or one of 435.

Let's be fair

By Waquiot on Fri, 10/07/2022 - 10:39pm.

That claim is one of the most bipartisan things in politics nowadays.

Not really

By SwirlyGrrl on Sat, 10/08/2022 - 4:50pm.

Not really.

Look at the militarism amongst the GOP candidates and try again.

Indeed

By Waquiot on Sat, 10/08/2022 - 5:47pm.

You are right, as long as you are viewing the world through the lens of partisanship.

But sure, my member of Congress never claimed that she is singularly able to solve our problems. Humility is her strength. /s

Viewing through partisanship?

By SwirlyGrrl on Sun, 10/09/2022 - 3:26pm.

Oh, we all know that you know all about that! This is your usual solipsism.

Bothsidesism is a complete fallacy, too. AKA "false equivalence".

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But you love that bothesidesbothsidesbosides stuff to excuse your fascist nonsense. You don't even realize how utterly partisan your BOTHSIDESISM is, either, do you?

Are you kidding me?

By Waquiot on Sun, 10/09/2022 - 10:45pm.

Are you really going to claim that the statement-

How every ... candidate will be able to single handedly "fix" everything as a lone something or other, including non-federal stuff.

Not be one of 100 or one of 435.

Only applies to Republican candidates for Congress? You have truly been drinking the Kool Aid if you think that Democrats don't do that as well. Heck, I'll present you with both of our Senators and my self-loving Representatives as proof that indeed they think that they can single handedly fix everything. That's the problem with Congress. Fixing things needs consensus. Instead, we've got probably 10 Senators and 25 Representatives who dare to get consensus on issues, and those are mocked as traitors or In Name Only folk.

But if you want another Democrat, keep it going and I'll give you one that you won't have an answer for.

Maggie Hassan!

By scollaysq on Fri, 10/07/2022 - 7:01pm.

Votes in LOCKSTEP WITH BIDEN!! And SHARES TEA WITH HITLER!

I won't miss that barrage of ads (and I made that second part up. But I didn't invent the DRAMA.)

"votes with Biden"

By SwirlyGrrl on Fri, 10/07/2022 - 7:31pm.

I saw one of those ads. The woman's mouth didn't match the voiceover.

Creepy WTF?

Also, it has been many, many moons since Biden was a rep, and many years since Biden was a senator. Not quite sure how one "votes with Biden" when Biden doesn't vote?

It's a real stat

By Waquiot on Fri, 10/07/2022 - 10:41pm.

Places like 538 have been tracking how members of Congress vote in relation to the President's agenda going back. At least to W, but that's the internet, since surely some group was releasing weekly print newsletters going further back than that.

538

By cybah on Sat, 10/08/2022 - 6:19am.

They lost me in 2016. They also keep losing me because their loser founder can't seem to stick to facts and numbers. He really opens his mouth every few weeks.

Enough to make me not want to bother to hear what he or 538 have anything to say, even if it is accurate. You can make numbers appear in many ways if you're holding the pen.

What was wrong with 538 in 2016?

By tachometer on Sat, 10/08/2022 - 10:03am.

They basically said Trump had a 1 in 3 chance but a lot of people who fail to understand odds made loud claims that they were "wrong" about their prediction. If that was wrong then you would be wrong to say that there is a 1 in 3 chance of a single dice roll coming up as a five or six.

On election night in 2016 Nate was actually one of if not the first person to note that Hillary was in trouble based on some counties in NC that were very similar in demographics to the critical areas of states like Michigan and Wisconsin of the fatal "blue wall" that she needed.

They drank the neoliberal koolaid

By SwirlyGrrl on Sat, 10/08/2022 - 4:53pm.

And totally missed the voter registration push among younger people and marginalized the discontent of the progressive wing and its ability to pull in non-affiliated voters.

Basically existed to validate the Nancy and Hillary show without daring to deviate from money=success formulae.

I was early into criticizing them in comments along with a bunch of other statistically literate people, and we were right that new trends were being completely ignored in favor of "conventional wisdom".

So you’re saying

By Waquiot on Sat, 10/08/2022 - 5:49pm.

Donald Trump was not elected President in 2016?

You are beginning to sound similar to people you distain. It’s not a good look for you.

Watch Waquoit Pull a Rabbit out of a Hat

By SwirlyGrrl on Sun, 10/09/2022 - 3:15pm.

Classic "look over there at that tree" school of discussion!

I won't bother you with the nuances of factual reality, but he may not have been if the DNC was not obsessed with maintaining neoliberal privilege and avoiding that reality you also avoid: that squashing the valid concerns of progressives meant people not voting rather than voting for Democrats.

538 was drinking at that fountain and ignoring inconvenient numbers as "not meaningful" up to the end.

So, your theory is

By Waquiot on Mon, 10/10/2022 - 2:25pm.

Progressives voted for Trump in 2016?

538 did a better job than most media in 2016, and even did a postmortem discussing where they came up short. Meanwhile, Clinton was ignoring the Rust Belt in favor of Texas. Great strategy there.

More of this plz

By emac on Fri, 10/07/2022 - 7:30pm.

New Hampshire is too dinky a state to have more than one commercial TV station.

Hey- they tried- as pointed

By anon_wd on Fri, 10/07/2022 - 8:33pm.

Hey- they tried- as pointed out elsewhere- WMUR still has NH still doing better than outposts like New Jersey or Delaware that went from 1 or 2 to 0

WMUR's ratings bump is from mistaken identity

By J.R. Dobbs on Sat, 10/08/2022 - 6:34am.

TV menus have Boston & NH's ABC stations right next to each other. I do it all the time.

Right up until I see the REAL AMERICAN SUPER PATRIOT SNOW PLOW commercial. I immediately break down into a blubbering pile of liberal goo every time I hear the raging prideful anger of fat dudes who sit in warm trucks all winter.

Something NH would rather not think about

By SwirlyGrrl on Sat, 10/08/2022 - 4:57pm.

They only have the one media outlet because most of their population is dependent on the Boston area for employment, directly or indirectly.

Those "buses full of voters from Massachusetts" were commuter buses that load up on State Street.