The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When you buy toothpaste or detergent or gas, that is now used for the first time in your lifetime or my lifetime to support candidates in so-called 'independent ads.' Same thing for unions.
Most people probably don't even know what toothpaste they buy; they just recognize the box on the shelf.
People used to complain that selling a president was like selling a bar of soap. But when you buy soap, at least you get the soap. In this campaign you just get two guys telling you they really value cleanliness.
The Democrats are going the way of Burma Shave and Crisco - products everyone loved and had in their homes. But they got old. They didn't have anything new to say about the product, and after awhile, they died.
As an incumbent, if you are winning, your commercials are about motherhood and apple pie and the flag.
This election ain't no stinkin' TV show.
Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time.
I've been in a lot of elections.
If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera.
Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.