“Our view on policy is that it serves as a kind of superstructure of the campaign and not the exterior,” Bennett said. “The narrative and the message is what people react to.”

One day they will finally be the truth-telling automatons that CNN promised us decades ago

Those posts were most certainly my least favourite part of Clashtalk.

That makes as much sense as the so-far offered reason for why Clashtalk was closed down, which was

100 percent of the readers who send me emails: They’d prefer no swear words, please!

This is good Kinja. Feels like it’d be really good on Clashtalk.

Valerie Plame shoulda just said she’s taking names and eating yellowcake

I’ve known at least one person who knew Ann Coulter personally and I’ve known people who are on cordial terms with Kellyanne Conway, and their collective response to this comment would be: yep. Pundits, especially the most vociferous ones, are performing. It’s an act. Rush Limbaugh would be just as loud and obnoxious…

As an on-and-off resident, I can agree with you. I don’t agree that she’s driving _fast_ in this ad, but she is definitely driving.

As a high school student I remember really liking Franken’s books. It’s too bad he’s choosing to continue to ruin whatever positive legacy he might have wanted to create.

I assume that someone told her to speak that way for the commercial.

Really big fan of how this dude has been effectively deplatformed.

Yes, several of the commenters have reminded the audience that that happened.

Down in southern New Mexico a third Republican primary candidate recently declared with this video

In the 81 second ad she doesn’t give a whole lot of her life story but she says that she was working for the US government, she’s from a family that worked for the US government, she got kicked out of her job as a political hit, since then she’s been raising her kids in the state, she’s running for reasons X, Y, and…

The demographics of northern New Mexico are changing as that part of the state gets more and more folks coming in from Colorado and California but the entire state has a lot of military and other government installations. IOW, running on a “I worked for the CIA” platform is not at all a bad idea.

As of the second quarter campaign finance filing report there were 11 Democrats vying for the primary but since then some candidates have dropped and some new ones have entered. I stopped trying to keep track.

It’s a good ad. She’s currently running in New Mexico’s most crowded primary (there’s 10 or so declared candidates) with no real obvious front runner at present so it makes sense to tell voters who in the heck she is.

I read that article earlier this week, I highly recommend it.

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