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Hardball Independent Anti-Palin Ad: Aerial Wolf Hunting
The Defenders of Wildlife Action fund has cut an ad lambasting Palin for her aggressive support for aerial wolf hunting, which has been the subject of several referenda in AK seeking to ban the practice (all unsuccessful, most recently last month). The ad includes graphic and disturbing footage of a wolf being shot from a plane. It may be viewed by going to the group's website, here.
There is a lively discussion of the ad, which is going to be shown in OH and elsewhere, and whether it is effective as an electoral matter, up on Daily Kos.
I tend to think the ad is pretty effective, even though there's obviously a risk of backlash with some voters and I'd suspect the Obama campaign would rather not be associated with protection of wolves, among all species, at this moment. In addition to suggesting to many viewers that she tolerates a cruel and sadistic practice to creatures who have the same attributes as the family dog, it may help to remind voters that the political world Palin's cut her teeth in is vastly different from the politics that matter to most in the lower 48 -- and that she, like McCain, is out of touch. A number of Kos commenters who claim hunting experience claim that aerial wolf hunting would be widely regarded as profoundly unsporting.
Interested to hear what TPMers think.
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