Moveon--4, Corporate America--Who Cares?

Ah, I love the smell of Moveon in the morning:

Corporate Media Censors MoveOn: "Perhaps you have thought, 'If the voters knew how venal a GOP member of Congress was, they could never get re-elected.'

MoveOn is testing that proposition with a public service ad campaign that targets four Republican candidates whose votes in Congress have put special interest profits before the public good.

'Caught red-handed' is the moniker for a series of MoveOn TV ads that expose the lawmakers' fealty to the corporations that fund their campaigns. MoveOn PAC Director Eli Pariser puts it this way: 'The most visible and insidious form of corruption is the form that is also legal, and that is the money politicians take from big companies and the votes that they give in return to help those companies out.'"

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Despite resistance from GOP affiliated media, the "caught red-handed" campaign seems to be working. In Connecticut, a survey taken in Rep. Johnson's district found that, following the ads, her share of the vote dropped from 47 to 41 percent, while her Democratic opponent Chris Murphy's share of the vote rose from 46 to 51 percent--an 11 percentage point shift.

Similiarly, in Virginia, Thelma Drakes' 51 to 42 percent lead in the polls shrank to a 46-46 tie with challenger Phil Kellam--a 9 percentage point shift. MoveOn set out on this campaign, in the words of Pariser, to find out: "How do you take the issue of corruption and tie it to the politicians that we need to beat in November?" The answer: Paint their hands red, for all to see.