Politics

Pants on Fire: the Whoppers of the 2010 Elections

By Mary Bottari

Throughout the course of the 2010 Congressional midterm campaigns, candidates threw out countless fibs, questionable assertions, whoppers and half-truths. These are our candidates for the most misleading campaign ads of 2010, what are yours?

Big Lie #1: Health Care Reform Guts Medicare

In a nationally coordinated effort, Republicans and pro-Republican groups attacked Democrats for supporting the Affordable Care Act (ACA), making misleading allegations that the health care reform bill will lead to cuts in Medicare benefits. Many of the ads came from ?outside interest groups? like Karl Rove?s Crossroads GPS, the 60 Plus Association and Americans For Prosperity, who ran nearly identical ads across the country. Attacks also came from ?official? Republican groups like the Senate Conservatives Fund and the National Republican Congressional Committee, as well as candidates themselves.

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Full post as published by PR Watch on November 15, 2010 (boomark / email).