Soo Misleading...

Plus, what it is like to be in those campaign commercials

JOIN US! Sunday night at 6:45pm (Iowa time), I will host a pre-Election 2024 live chat. I will share some things that I will be watching, some things that I have learned during the campaign and some thoughts on the latest Iowa Poll which comes out Saturday night.

Join in the conversation or just sit back, grab a drink and listen to what others are thinking in the final days of this campaign. I hope that you will join us!

Here’s the Zoom link.

Tuned Out — Do the candidates ever get embarrassed when their campaigns produce some of these political commercials? As you likely know, television stations have very little ability to pull down these misleading ads. Too bad, right?

That means voters can get wrongly influenced by B.S.

Photo by Elijah Sargent on Unsplash

Coordinated Confusion — Campaigns pull comments out of context, attach candidates to extreme positions that some organization or donor once said or supported…regardless of what the candidates’ actual positions are. Voters get confused on what is really true.

If you are a rookie candidate, then you have to define yourself before the other side does. Good luck with that.

What percentage of ads are positive ones…ads that actually tell us what a candidate believes or wants to do if elected? It doesn’t seem like that percentage is very high (Understatement).

But with more and more people avoiding traditional media, getting their information from sources that echo their political positions and from these misleading ads, then we can see why campaigns (and outside groups) air so many of these.

Sigh.

Inside Iowa Politics — Why does Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird keep joining so many multi-state lawsuits against the Biden administration instead of focusing on Iowa?

Does 2020 Iowa Democratic Caucus winner Pete Buttigieg worry that his party is focusing too much on abortion access when many Americans are also fixated on how much more expensive things are? They both joined me for this week’s show.

Watch that here.

Growing Opportunities — Denise Greer Jamerson is a busy woman. I met her this week. She works on her family’s sixth generation farm in southern Indiana, the oldest Black settlement in the state. The farm pre-dates the Civil War.

But she and her husband do so much more than.

You have to listen to our conversation to understand the impact that her family makes far beyond their farm.

The Ad — “Have you seen that ad with you in it? Yes, I tell them. Again and again.