27 Comments - S - Tuesday, Oct 26, 10 @ 6:34 am: Is it wrong that “shark guy” is rapidly becoming one of my favorite Illinois political figures? Probably has better favorables than Madigan at the moment. Needs to be included in a poll! - wordslinger - Tuesday, Oct 26, 10 @ 8:37 am: A lot of work went into that anti-Bean video. Rather disturbing concept. It makes you wonder what they had going before they toned it down. - Siriusly - Tuesday, Oct 26, 10 @ 8:53 am: The new Brady neg/pos ad is good. Recaps the messages and puts Brady on screen for the closer. I give it a 7/10. I can’t decide which was worse the Bean one or the Kirk one. Both are extremely unfunny and lame. IEA phantom was nearly just as lame. The creative wells in the campaigns have clearly run dry. - Ghost - Tuesday, Oct 26, 10 @ 9:07 am: I wish for the old days where we could hav elected Brady Gov and Simon lt. Gov. That electing brady put Plummer in as the number 2 guy in the State is the most compelling reason to vote for Quinn so far. - Josh - Tuesday, Oct 26, 10 @ 9:29 am: I have to say… the Bean ad was pretty cute. The family wasn’t trying to inflict violence upon Bean herself, they just don’t want to have to deal with lackluster politicians anymore. - Sugar - Tuesday, Oct 26, 10 @ 10:01 am: IEA’s ads are pretty bad this cycle. Brady ad is solid. Not as good as the last IMHO. Quinn’s new ad is compelling…he needs to blow Brady up asap or he’s toast. - RobRoy - Tuesday, Oct 26, 10 @ 10:06 am: Have to admit the IEA Phantom ad made me laugh. Will not change my vote but it was clever. The Bean ad was interesting but not compelling. Was the message robo calls are a pain or M. Bean is a blah, blah, blah congress critter? - Sugar - Tuesday, Oct 26, 10 @ 10:08 am: Hey Ghost - that line of thinking *maybe* would have worked before last night. After the debate last night I shudder at the thought of Professor NoAnswers running anything. Anything. Vote Green! - ShadyBillBrady - Tuesday, Oct 26, 10 @ 10:13 am: I actually have thought the IEA ads have been fairly clever and cheesy - intentionally cheesy I assume. They seem to be aimed at their members anyway, not as much at the general public. Shady Bill Brady looks less creepy in this ad than he did in the “I’m Da Guy” ad, but creepy nonetheless. And it’s really just a regurgitation of his other ads in this cycle. They’re slickly produced (and thankfully with less lens flares) but that only gets you so far. Best of the bunch is still the Glee ad, in my opinion. - Really?? - Tuesday, Oct 26, 10 @ 10:18 am: Again with the shark? Nobody on the street knows what he’s talking about. It just seems like a crazy guy in a shark costume. If people don’t know what you’re talking about, it isn’t an effective protest. But at least the guy learned how to spell “Miami”, so I guess some good came from it. - Dirt Digger - Tuesday, Oct 26, 10 @ 10:25 am: “We have suffered enough” is a good tag line. - Living in Oklahoma - Tuesday, Oct 26, 10 @ 10:31 am: Concerning the Melissa Bean Commercial, as Rich said to a commenter yesterday, “stop being so thinthetive.” - Bluefish - Tuesday, Oct 26, 10 @ 10:48 am: Re robocalls: Mrs. Bluefish gets home yesterday afternoon with the the little ones, hits the button on the answering machine and is shocked to be greeted with the rape victim robocall. She immediately hit delete and is livid that the kids had to hear that one. Needless to say, that one call helped her make up her mind as to who to vote against. - just sayin' - Tuesday, Oct 26, 10 @ 11:05 am: Brady ad is completely shameless. Brady just had a fundraiser with a former Blago deputy governor. Moveon’s “Chinese Consulate” video, lame is right. Illinois Republican Renaissance PAC ad, stupidest thing ever. Would make me more likely to vote for Melissa Bean to defend her from the violent wackjobs. - RMW Stanford - Tuesday, Oct 26, 10 @ 11:42 am: The Brady ad is solid as usual, hits Quinn on the points that seem to be strong with the voters and he looks pretty freindly during his screen time. The IEA strikes me as goofy, I repeat what one of the other posters said, the IEA is doing a very poor job with their ads this time around. - Cynic Al - Tuesday, Oct 26, 10 @ 11:45 am: The best of the lot was the Brady commercial “Future”. It was by no means ground-breaking, but was relatively well done. 6.5/10 The Quinn Halloween ad gets marks for creativity, but I think the message would get lost if you’re not paying close attention. 5/10 The anti-Kirk ad is lousy. The equivalent of high school kids thinking they are clever. They’re not. - 1.5/10 The anti-Bean ad is just terrible. What’s the point? That people don’t like robocalls? Guess what - people don’t like attack ads either. - 1/10 - ANON - Tuesday, Oct 26, 10 @ 11:47 am: =Nobody on the street knows what he’s talking about= I’d assume that’s the point, to get people asking what he’s talking about. And to get media coverage. - Newsclown - Tuesday, Oct 26, 10 @ 12:36 pm: The anti-Bean ad is stupidly written. I thought the next line was going to be “Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi!” In an attempt to be “meta”, they forgot to put any kind of context into it. IEA spots are really really poorly thought-out, worst I’ve seen in years. Nothing wrong with the technical execution, but the messaging is a mess. These reflect poorly on the makers, not their targets. You get spots like this when nobody has the guts to tell the boss his idea is stupid or needs work. - Jake from Elwood - Tuesday, Oct 26, 10 @ 1:19 pm: The shark is the right’s answer to the labor union’s ratmobile. Except it is far less effective. - Statesman - Tuesday, Oct 26, 10 @ 1:20 pm: Really have to ask who is producing Quinn’s ads? Oak Park/River Forest HS videography club? Then again- if they were- the content would be far better! Much to your chagrin- NOT voting for Quinn. - Rich Miller - Tuesday, Oct 26, 10 @ 1:28 pm: Statesman, are you referring to any of the videos posted on this story? Because none of them are from the Quinn campaign. - Statesman - Tuesday, Oct 26, 10 @ 1:47 pm: Specifically referring to the puppy mill and ‘brady bunch’ videos and a few others. Third rate poli ads that are off point. Seems like third rate is what has defined PQ’s campaign IMHO. - Rich Miller - Tuesday, Oct 26, 10 @ 1:48 pm: ===Specifically referring to the puppy mill and ‘brady bunch’ videos and a few other=== Brady bunch was IEA, not Quinn. Puppy ad was YouTube only. - Team Sleep - Tuesday, Oct 26, 10 @ 2:25 pm: Brady’s ad was great - until he started talking. - The Shadow - Tuesday, Oct 26, 10 @ 2:41 pm: It’s interesting that in the Brady ad he didn’t cite anything. Not one fact. I could say a whole bunch of stuff too and not cite it. Where’s the cred? - Rahm's Parking Meter - Tuesday, Oct 26, 10 @ 3:04 pm: Jaws showed up at the Bill Clinton/Giannoulias/Quinn GOTV Rally today.. - Anonymous - Tuesday, Oct 26, 10 @ 3:33 pm: This Kirk “Beijing Fundraiser” that I found a couple of days ago is pretty well done. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO0gNF-xO8c Sorry, comments for this post are now closed.