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[–] 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

Tell me that this isn't the fault of the hired media firm that released the video in the wrong market. Not sure how the campaign management itself would get this wrong.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago

    Yeah it's the super PAC's direct fault here:

    The Defending Main Street super PAC spent thousands of dollars on an attack ad to audiences thousands of miles away from the Maine Senate race it was targeting.

    The ad hit Maine Democratic Senate candidate Troy Jackson on the issue of taxes and cost of living in the state.

    “Maine can’t afford Troy Jackson and all his taxes,” the ad said.

    “It’s clear these people don’t know anything about Maine.”

    The group, which describes itself as the “most effective independent expenditure organization supporting the governing wing of the Republican Party,” paid for the ad to attack Jackson, who’s mounting a challenge to incumbent GOP Sen. Susan Collins. Both candidates have made cost of living a central plank of their campaigns in the run-up to the midterm election on November 3.

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    [–] 10 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    I get political attack ads for the wrong state all the time.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 weeks ago*

    I'm in Vancouver, Canada, and i get soooo much trump email. Got on a mail list somehow and haven't been able to get off. Fortunately they accept email changes. Just not unsubscribes. So it's easy to filter with an email tag.

    Also i get the odd phone poll from Georgia about my politics. I like to make up a new persona every time.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 weeks ago

    Probably because the buyer isn't from either.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 weeks ago

    Pfft, what a waste of money, we’d feed that POS Troy Jackson his own entrails 15 minutes after stepping foot in Oregon

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  • [–] 3 points 4 weeks ago

    But the military contractors' checks all arrived at Collins' super PAC when they were supposed to, and that's all that really matters to Senator Collins.

    To read how her campaign is talking about the error, $25k on ads spent in the wrong place is nothing.

    Maybe that's how it is when your campaign is funded by kickbacks made of taxpayer cash to be paid down the line, along with extra trillionaire dollars thrown your way for the election because your seat's a bit hot these days.

    Those pearls won't clutch themselves, Susie. Best get to it.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)
  • [–] -3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (10 children)

    wrong Portland is my guess

    Portland Maine is Portland #1 according to Jon Stewart

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  • [–] 19 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

    What, like the article immediately and clearly states?

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  • [–] 5 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

    Knew a guy who found a smoking deal on a flight to St. Petersburg Russia. It took him a few weeks to realize it was for Petersburg Alaska.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 weeks ago

    There's also an old story about a guy who got on a flight to Oakland, California, only to realize after he had been in the air for many hours that it was going to Auckland, New Zealand.

    Also probably not true.

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