Does Kerry have ads up in Mass.? Because Ogo does.

[beachmom]

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/05/08/rivals_ad_targets_kerry_on_local_ties/

Rival's ad targets Kerry on local ties
Ogonowski seeks GOP nomination with folksy attack
Email|Print|Single Page| Text size – + By John C. Drake
Globe Staff / May 8, 2008

Jim Ogonowski, Republican Senate candidate, began airing a folksy Massachusetts travelogue on cable television yesterday, a cross between a Michael Moore movie and a negative ad targeting Democratic incumbent John F. Kerry.
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The campaign spot - with music played on a picked acoustic guitar and labels in hand-drawn lettering - shows Ogonowski, one of two Republicans mounting challenges to Kerry, stopping in at coffee shops and diners around the state.

He sidles up to patrons and asks them whether they have ever seen Kerry in the state. Not surprisingly, every single person quoted in the ad says "no" or, in a variation, "nope.

"Everywhere I go people are telling me they haven't seen John Kerry in Massachusetts," Ogonowski says in the ad, as he sits behind the wheel of his car, tieless and wearing a sport coat.

"John who?" one woman responds.

The ad began running statewide on CNN and FOX News yesterday, said Alicia Preston, an Ogonowski campaign spokeswoman.

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A Kerry campaign spokesman called the ad fiction and provided a list of four dozen official Senate appearances by Kerry at Massachusetts events so far in 2008.

"Fiction like this belongs on HBO, not cable television in Massachusetts," said the spokesman, David Wade.

You know I like David Wade's response, but am wondering what is coming down the pike from Sen. Kerry. It doesn't matter whether what the ad says is true or not. The lie is OUT THERE without much of a response. A lot of people don't read newspapers, and only watch TV.

[Mass]

1. He is trying to win his primary, and people know Kerry.

[beachmom]

2. So you don't think this is a problem, then? nt

[Mass]

3. I think these ads are to show people he is a strong candidate against Kerry to win the nomination.

They are here for Republicans, so that they vote for him, which explains the overkill.

Now, what it shows and that he has money to spend, and that, if he is the nominee, he may have money for more nuanced ads. But I am sure that the Kerry team is aware of that. They have seen the campaign against Tsongas (that he lost when it was not a general election. Democrats will be out to in November to beat McCain).

So, you're right, you are never too careful. But this ad seems to be directed at Republicans.

[TayTay]

4. I think it remains to be seen how Ogo will do in his primary

If, indeed, he makes it on to the ballot.

This is, btw, the classic Repub attack line on Sen. Kerry. They have always run on this, in 1990 and in 1996. Didn't work then and won't work now.

[Mass]

5. Ogo still does not have the 10000 signatures.

While I do not doubt he will eventually has them, it certainly shows that he is not that well liked in the state, contrarely to what some in the media want us to believe.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/05/20/gops_ogonowski_could_be_short_on_voter_signatures/