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Watch campaign ads in the 2012 presidential campaign and track campaign ad spending by candidates and interest groups. Super interesting site, I didn't know Romney was spending THAT much on ads (more than all the other candidates combined), it's crazy! Plus, if anyone still couldn't find ads for the position papers, there are plenty here, enjoy!

I looked into Romney's ads, and when you see his campaign strategy, it's not too surprising. He has made ads targeted at individual states (new hampshire, missouri) and is attacking candidates left and right (mainly Santorum and Obama). These are distinct from the general platform ads he has running on TV.

oh so its happening in Charlotte, North Carolina.. :p im talking about the 2012 Democratic National Convention its a useful site providing info about the events the delegates and you can even donate there :p

Hahah! are you going to give us all the answers of the exam that we didn't know? :P

Oh come on!! the only valid criticism from this long long list is that Invisible Children exaggerated the facts and inflated the numbers, which does undermine its legitimacy but does not ruin the campaign. The other arguments are so easy to shoot down that I won't even bother.

Interesting comparison between Russian Elections and Kony 2012!

HORNY 2012

PHOENIX, February 3, 2012- Mitt Romney's win in Florida didn't happen because the voters felt at heart with Romney's message and past, but rather the negative onslaught of campaign ads run by the Romney campaign and its allies against Newt Gingrich.

His plan is to lay a crafty trap, according to political analyst Stéphane Rozès. Struggling to catch frontrunner François Hollande, Sarkozy is seeking to "dramatise" the election. "He is saying in substance: 'In May, it will be more or chaos,'" Rozès tells Europe1.

Interesting analysis of the US motives from the Kony intervention

Actually, it doesn't necessarily mean "dishonest" at least in the way the campaign developed. Just because the NGO didn't roll out their entire agenda in a video doesn't mean they're hiding anything. The video itself was aimed at a component of their objective in Uganda: Make Kony a household name. Dishonest here is a matter of opinion, in terms of how the campaign construction and evolution (encoding) is done. Calling it a scam is like saying advertisers are trying to steal your money, they don't tell you we want to make profit, but rather you need to consume our product. If you choose to participate and donate, it is your job as an activist to do the necessary research, at least in my opinion. The rest can be chalked up to the debate: should campaigners give its audience all of the information or should they give them enough and have them make a decision (lethargic & informed vs. active & smart). Then we seek to define how much is enough, which gets down to opinion. The bottom line however is over such a short period of time and the quick rise of the deviant opinion is something we should definitely examine. The "hidden" motives are basically the motives that weren't included in the video KONY2012 video. However it fulfilled its purpose as a medium, raise awareness about the cause (itself, but not the NGO's agenda), involve as many people as possible. In the end it comes down to framing the issue. As for Invisible Children as an organization, it has its Vision and Mission Statement set clear on its website. There were very broad headlines concerning their Kony initiative, they offered a step by step plan when major criticism began to surface. They have updated their page accordingly: http://www.invisiblechildren.com/critiques.html - and cracking down because of their funding of the Ugandan army is a matter of political debate. Either you prefer to arm the Ugandans (past human rights abusers) and have them expel the threat themselves, allow the threat of the L

RA to grow, or allow foreign intervention to deal with the issue. From here it's a matter of perspective, and which proponent is thinking of the case of Uganda.

Nothing fancy..This provides a countdown till the final elections, analysis, online polls and election updates.. A good place to check from time to time to know whats going on and what people are saying.

Rick Santorum dropped out 34 minutes ago.

Interesting...

finally!

A slideshow of the five leading candidates for the French presidency

Socialist voters face a nervous wait for the results of today's presidential election runoff between Nicolas Sarkozy and François Hollande after final opinion polls following Wednesday's fiery television debate revealed a late surge in favour of the outgoing president, who has trailed his leftwing rival throughout the race.The polls indicated that Hollande was still on track to win the second round runoff vote, but revealed that the gap between the presidential rivals had narrowed from 10 percentage points a week ago to between four and six.

I don't agree on everything but the main idea of the song is exactly my opinion: He is a bad guy but Invisible Children don't necessary tell all the truth

A super PAC supporting Rick Santorum announced Thursday that it bought $310,000 in ads in Illinois in advance of that state's primary next week. The target: Mitt Romney. Santorum racked up a pair of wins earlier this week in Mississippi and Alabama, but trails far behind Romney in the delegate count.