An op-ed in the Los Angeles Times claims that the failure of Proposition 56, changing the requirements for passing a State budget to 55% rather than a 2/3’s majority, presages tough times for John Kerry in California.
The writer of the piece, a Venture Capitalist who worked to elect Schwarzenegger, makes a dubious claim about the ad campaign in support of the Propositon:
The heavy campaign, which swamped the opponents’ ads, was paid for not only by supposed nonpartisan groups like the League of Women Voters but also by the usual Democratic-machine suspects, the labor unions.
Admittedly I don’t watch very much prime time or network television, but I hardly recall being swamped by an ads supporting the Proposition. To the contrary, I best recall a series of well conceived ads against Proposition 56.
The ads misrepresented the proposition as a gadget useful only for raising taxes. Perhaps I did catch one or two ads from the pro-side, but the anti’s stuck. Proposition 56 failed because of an effective ad campaign, not because of its merits or Democratic Party backing.
If President Bush’s re-election team unveild a similarily effective ad campaign then Senator Kerry ought to be afraid. Judging by their recent efforts, the Bush team has far to go in that regard.
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