Wearing out the Mute Button 0
This is why.
There are groups such as Crossroads GPS, a conservative advocacy operation co-founded by Republican strategist Karl Rove that has produced ads skewering Obama and Kaine. And there are “super PACs” such as the pro-Democrat group Majority PAC that has sponsored ads promoting Kaine and attacking Allen.
Independent political and interest groups have bought $37 million worth of television advertising time in the state’s top four media markets, according to an analysis by the nonpartisan Virginia Public Access Project. About half of the money has been spent by groups that don’t disclose their donors to the public. And the vast majority of the ads have been negative.
The ads from Karl Rove and the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, in particular, go beyond “slanted” to fantasy. That’s just how they roll.