The Longest Season Perks Up

Of course, as soon as I mention that only one political ad is running in our area five more suddenly pop up.

There's at least one variant of the original attack on Romney's record as Massachusetts governor (which is still running) and one praising President Obama. There's also now an Obama ad warning about distortions and misrepresentations in Republican ads, specifically the AFP PAC ad excerpting the unfortunate "the private sector is doing fine" sound bite. There's also another AFP ad complaining generally about the poor economy.

All of the Obama ads come directly from the president's campaign. None of the ads on the other side come from the Romney campaign. They're all PAC ads from one or the other of Rove's groups. Some of the Rovian ones don't even acknowledge the existence of the presidential race but merely ask people to "support the AFP jobs program," whatever that is.

While there is a bit of sniping and some selective editing going on, they haven't gotten really vicious . . . yet.