No, I'm right about this one. That ad buy didn't go for propping up Vance. It went to tearing down Tim Ryan. I didn't even know who Vance was, let alone that he was running. I have the radio on 24/7 for background noise. They ran campaign ads on why Tim Ryan was bad. They didn't say shit about Vance, who he was, what he had done or anything else. It was "Tim Ryan bad. No vote Tim Ryan." Then, not a fucking word about JD Vance. That's not how you win an election. They wanted him to lose. According to Rich Barris, Vance called him personally because he wanted to know what Barris' polling had shown, because Republican establishmetarians were telling him to drop out a week or so before the vote because he was 4 points down in the polls on their internal polling. He won by 6.

No, I'm right about this one. That ad buy didn't go for propping up Vance. It went to tearing down Tim Ryan. I didn't even know who Vance was, let alone that he was running. I have the radio on 24/7 for background noise. They ran campaign ads on why Tim Ryan was bad. They didn't say shit about Vance, who he was, what he had done or anything else. It was "Tim Ryan bad. No vote Tim Ryan." Then, not a fucking word about JD Vance. That's not how you win an election. They wanted him to lose. According to Rich Barris, Republican establishmetarians were telling him to drop out a week or so before the vote because he was 4 points down in the polls on their internal polling. He won by 6.