Word.

There are any number of locally made Ned Lamont videos that were far more effective than that one as well.  How about CT-Bob and Barara Boxer?  What about Spazeboy trapping Joe Lieberman in the stairwell and getting him to pledge he'd caucus with the Democrats?  Or the "Have you forgotten" video.

I sense "See Dick Run" received that award precisely because it was made by a political consultant in a contest determined by a caucus of political consultants.

Tim

Gee...do you think the "Pollies" might have something to do with who advertises in the right places (probably not most blogs) and who is friends with whoever the "judges" are?  Might money influence this?  Might the DC crowd have an advantage over outsiders?  Did Bob Schrum get a lifetime achievement award?

You can actually buy votes in the Pollies. The number of submissions and votes a firm gets is based on how much they pay. But this shows how out-of-touch the DC consultants are when it comes to the internet -- they would rather look incompetent than stop their self-congratulatory circle jerk.

I clicked through and watched.  See Dick Run is pretty damned boring, IMHO.  Maybe it was a sympathy vote or something.

Or does this whole thing strike anyone else as um, retarded?  Like, how does Rick Santorum win so many awards for a loser campaign?

Update [2007-2-24 21:23:42 by Matt Stoller]: Sorry, but an an award with such a questionable judgement process is not an award.

You can also go to any trophy store and create your own trophy and just like a Pollie it is something that has no value beyond what was paid for it.

Look at the voting on the online stuff, it is like they focused on fluff that was not in any way central to the campaign strategy.

And I'm surprised that Jerome's ad wasn't disqualified because it said it was a general election fund but the original link went to a page where 100% went to Brown's primary. The fact that the consultants voting appreciated a "not rock the boat" ad without knowing any of the history of how it backfired in district just goes to show how bunk this is.

There is zero reason to give any credibility to the Pollies.

Am I the one that needs to defend The English Patient?  Great acting, writing, and cinimetography.  But Jerry Maguire DID have that "show me the money" scene...

FYI you need to be a Michigander to get it.. it's about billionaire Dick DeVos, the Republican candidate for Gov, who basically tried to buy the election. I believe the MDP commissioned it - it was everywhere last year including the MDP website. Played at the convention and a lot of Democratic events across the state. More of an offline than online phenomenon though. I agree that it was not game-changing like the Macaca video.

See Dick Run kinda sucked.

I would have to agree that the Sherrod Brown Senate primary ads were effective, even if in a somewhat devious, welcome to the NFL kinda way.  

The Brown campaign was sitting on a nice war chest. They main goal in the primary wasn't to raise money, but instead to keep Hackett from raising enough to make any TV buys. Brown's connections in the House strong armed the influential old school money, while Brown's online efforts focused on shutting down Hackett's web buzz powered fundraising base.

The line of wait until the primaries over was an effective passive aggressive marketing effort. Online pro-Brown pundits dutifully cited the ads as an example of their Hackett mean / Brown nice mantra.

I'm not a big fan of online political ads, but that's about as good as it's going to get in my opinion.