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Monday, November 5, 2007

Romney Ad

I ran into this Romney Ad released last week following the Democratic debate.

Romney attacks Clinton while emphasizing his own executive experience. I think the ad is effective. Romney is a strong public speaker with a better presidential image than Giuliani. It is also interesting to note that he has shifted his campaigning to Clinton attacks.

2 comments:

Wes Williamson said...

As Maya said, Romney has shifted his attacks to Clinton. All of the Republican and Democratic candidates have. Considering her place in the polls (usually up by at least 20 percent, depending on the poll), this is not surprising. However, most pundits have recently been interested in discussing how her performance at last weeks debate will hurt her. It is still politically safe for the Republicans to contrast themselves to her, but the Democratic race looks like it won't be quite the blowout expected. There is still room for some competition. I'm curious to see if the Democrats such as Obama and Edwards will manage to capitalize upon Hillary's mistake. If they do, and the democratic race becomes a real competition again, what type of adds do you expect to see from the Republicans? Do you expect they will begin to attack each other because they do not have a clear opponent on the Democrat side to attack and say they would perform better against? I do.

Anonymous said...

Big ups to Wes for calling Obama's recent surge.