03 Nov A nearly perfect campaign ad

Well, perfect as an ad for a right wing Republican senatorial candidate can be. Tomorrow’s mid-term U.S. elections seem all but certain to produce Republican majorities in both houses Congress—even as more citizens vote Democratic than Republican. This ad is funny, pointed without being mean-spirited, and it hits hot-button emotions in a way that is like to connect with Iowa voters.

I grew up in the US, and once spent most of a year travelling in a Democratic presidential candidate’s campaign plane, but the hateful right-wing turn politics has taken in that country often seems bewildering and incomprehensible. Ads like this are part of what makes it happen.