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All About Albany '06: Send in the Commercials
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Garth Johnston
Published Mar 18, 2006
Modified Mar 7, 2008
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The race for the Governorship is on, and from what we read the commercials are staring to show up around the state. We barely watch commercials at this point thanks to the Teeve so we kinda feel like we're not really in the best position to judge TV commercials anymore. To us they all just seem blah and overdone. So we've brought together three of the commercials from the Democrats here for you to check out.
First up, here's Tom Suozzi's first ad:
Here's Elliot Spitzer's first ad:
And here's a link to Spitzer's latest commercial (we'll try to get it up on YouTube in a bit).
Now, what do you all think about these commercials? Do any of them change your opinions at all? Yeah, us neither.
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