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Political Ads Go Bang, Bang, You're Dead

  • NPR, Tuesday, September 2, 2014 10:24 AM

America is guns. Yes, in a lot of political advertising this year for congressional races the only substance seems to be gunpowder: many ads are all about how the candidates live to shoot, love to shoot, and how the NRA loves to love them for their love of guns. And it's not just elephants doing the hunting. In his ad, West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin gets in the message that he has been endorsed by the gun lobby. 

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