[...] BLITZER: I heard Ron Brownstein of the "Los Angeles Times", the political analyst, suggest yesterday that this ad was especially rugged in the South, because it has this white woman from the Playboy bunny or whatever making these comments about Harold Ford, Jr., an African-American, raising the specter of white women, black men in the South. And he suggested that this is going to backfire on the Republicans.CROWLEY: Well, you know, it's possible. I mean, absolutely, when you look at the racial overtones of the race simply being, that there's never been an African-American elected from the South to sit in the Senate. Those from reconstruction were elected within their own state legislature.
So, you know, absolutely. But there's always that question out there, which we ask from the very beginning, will voters in Tennessee send an African-American to the Senate? So everything has a racial overtone. So we'll see if people caught that or if we're talking about a Tennessee that has changed. We're just not sure.
BLITZER: All right. We'll see what goes on. What an ad that is, though. And it's still airing as far as you know? CROWLEY: Yes, absolutely, yes. We called today with Republicans, they said, no, it's still on the air.
BLITZER: Candy, thank you very much. [...]
That's a CNN "Situation Room" transcript's back-and-forth between host Wolf Blitzer and analyst Candy Crowley.
Bonus (un)related quote:
"The bottom line is, negative ads work. I don't care how much people say they are sick of them, they work. And the way they work is this: let's say there are three candidates in the race [Republican, Democrat and Independent], and I run a negative ad on you and you don't respond to it. People might get mad at me for running a negative ad, but if you don't respond to it, you know what they say… it must be true. At the end of the day, the third candidate might pick up some votes from the people who say they are sick of negative ads, but he or she ... is not going to pick up much. So, the bottom line is nobody goes into the ballot box and gives [you] credit for running a positive campaign ... I didn't like them when they were running against me. Some vicious things were said, but I finally concluded … that's just the price I have to pay to make a difference. And the final thing is, as my daddy use to say to me, dogs don't bark at parked cars."
| Quotes from J.C. Watts in Andrew Seamen's Wilkes Beacon article "J.C. Watts challenges crowd to evaluate American values"
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