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Published: 08/30/10

Campaign Ad Wars: The Cliches of 2010

By  Walter Shapiro - Politics Daily
Campaign Ad Wars: The Cliches of 2010

This is the last week that most Americans can turn on their TV sets and be comforted by such familiar cultural touchstones as party-on beer commercials and advertisements for desperate, must-clear-our-inventory car dealers. By Labor Day, it will be all political spots all the time in our biennial celebration of the right to vote – and the hazards to sanity that come with it. Campaign commercials tend to be about as predictable as Paris Hilton's denials after an arrest. We are all sadly familiar with the security-camera videos, the voice-of-doom narration and the horror-movie music that ...

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