Asymmetrical Information

As a NY resident who watches these campaigns with some amusement from across the river (and think how expensive it is to waste advertising dollars in the country's largest media market when over half the message recipients aren't NJ voters) my question is: why does this always happen in NJ? NY has some pretty ugly fights and a lot of petty ones (Bloomberg-Ferrer, anyone?) , but they rarely descend to the cartoonish ads you get in NJ. I have no idea why, but then, I've never lived in NJU.

When the mudslinging starts it is hard to stop.
A Corzine ad attacks the National Taxpayers Union
for "making up" statistics on his tax record.
Most people listening will think "making up" is
same as "fabricating falsehoods," when, of
course, the fair word to use would be "compiling"
but using that wouldn't be to Corzine's benefit.
These sleazy attacks still rise above the one I
just read about in 1861 when a Richmond paper editorialized that Lincoln was a "hideous Chimpanzee."

Yeah, that's pretty ballsy holding a candidate accountable for putting his then wife up as a character reference in a previous campaign. Not.

These sleazy attacks still rise above the one I just read about in 1861 when a Richmond paper editorialized that Lincoln was a "hideous Chimpanzee."

Oh, that still happens, but now we just leave it to the editorialist likes of Ted Rall and Steve Bell, a.k.a. "The Cartoonists Who Are Cartoons."

"It helps to be the kind of person who ignores all sense of decency when running for office."

It helps even more to have no sense of decency at all.

I just think back to the CA gubernatorial recall, when my husband (a native Californian) and I were watching in amazement from Texas as porn stars, former child stars, action stars, and even a few professional politicians vied for Davis's spot. Nutty things happen everywhere; they're just differently nutty. Something like that.

I think the worst may have been the Lautenberg-Dawkins race in 1988. Man, that was nasty.

I haven't seen the spot but it cerainly is relevant and probably a stretch to claim it's not running because of the conflict. Corruption and cronyism are huge issues in this election, and the only way Forrester can get votes from blue staters is to convince them Corzine is more of the same.

And be is you know.

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