The Teckki Says

This year, only one day separated Halloween and Election Day

Subject: Political Attack Ads - New York Gubernatorial Candidate Andrew Cuomo is the "victim" here.
Source: Huffington Post blog.

Nominated for: "He Got Me Good With This One!" award based on the fact that this attack ad is soooo good and creative, he'd better hope that no one takes it into the ballot booth with them.

It even scares me.

My how things have changed since his father was governor!

You can't pick your family or your neighbors, or where your website ads might appear!

Subject: Rotating Website Ads.
Source: Chicago Tribune - AP article on Chandra Levy murder trial, and testimony from former congressional boyfriend Gary Condit.

Nominated for: "And You Endorsed Me?" award based on the fact that the paper endorsed him, but didn't protect his ads from appearing in potentially adverse articles.

Round and round she goes, where rotating web ads stop nobody knows...

...unless they land on a page with a less-than-flattering story, and Illinois Senate Candidate Mark Kirk's ad couldn't have stopped on a worse page. Dogged by several reports of embellishing his credentials, Kirk's ad winds up on the page of a story where a former colleague, caught up in a high profile murder case, desperately tries to keep an affair with a congressional intern out of the limelight.

Lesson to be Learned: You can tell online publications where you don't want your ad to appear!

Last week, Illinois reported more than half of their schools are failing under the federal No Child Left Behind law. The verbiage in this ad might explain why.

Subject: Political Math
Source: Chicago Sun-Times Newspaper

Nominated for: "Political Math Makes Sense Only to Politicians" award based solely on the number reported here can mean anything or nothing, just like most things in politics.

This actually isn't Durbin's math, but the way the Chicago Sun-Times displayed it, Chicago should have no problems getting its' voters out, dead or alive or otherwise. To count these votes, all that needs to be done is move commas and decimal points as needed.