Category Archives: Politics

Two More Salvos

Posted on June 13, 2016 by Michael Froomkin

1) The WashPo calls this Priorities USA spot a “brutal” portrayal of Trump as a “full-blown sociopath”:

2) The Clinton campaign “briefing” (rapid-response squad) has this web-only video ‘ad’ for Trump U:

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First Official Clinton Ad of the General Election

Posted on June 12, 2016 by Michael Froomkin

Who We Are | Hillary Clinton

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In the Hall of the Mountain Trump

Posted on June 8, 2016 by Michael Froomkin

Huuuuuge.

I don’t think I’m up for six more months of this.

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Trumpalooza III

Posted on June 6, 2016 by Michael Froomkin

Previously: DSC Plays Its Trump Card, Clinton Fires 1st General Election Salvo, Clinton Attack: Salvo 2.

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Best Line of the Day?

Posted on May 11, 2016 by Michael Froomkin

Brad DeLong channels Cosma Shalizi:

Haven’t you just constructed an enormous and pointless intellectual apparatus involving […], in increasing order of implausibility, speaking intelligent aquatic waterfowl, options pricing, Vulcans, teleportation, Bayesianism, and time-travel just in order to be able to say the obvious thing: “The probability of an HRC victory is uncertain: it might be as low as 0.45 or as high as 0.95, and we will be able to sharpen our estimate as election day comes closer”?

Well, I laughed. Maybe you just had to be there. Or read the whole thing. Note that the order of implausible events is nicely snarky.

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“Harassment”

Posted on May 7, 2016 by Michael Froomkin

The NYT’s Nick Corasaniti says this ad from the Arkansas Senate race “could well become a blueprint for how other Democrats — incumbents and challengers alike — attack their Republican opponents by linking them to Donald J. Trump.”

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