Blanche Lincoln (D, AR) is out with a new campaign ad that is in the mold of the classic “Run against Washington” style used so effectively by congress critters over the years.

Also a common theme when your party is down in the polls and you are up for election is to run against the national party and emphasize your independence from it. Unsurprisingly, Lincoln does exactly that in asserting her independence from almost *all* of the Obama legislative agenda from the last year. There are no glaring misstatements of fact, though some important information is ommitted. For example, she doesn’t mention she was a “yes” vote on the Obamacare vote in December. She claims to have been a “no” vote on the “public option” health care…but that’s a bit misleading. While she did come to oppose the public option, the Senate bill which she voted on never had a public option…so technically she never voted on a health care bill with it in it. By the time a comprehensive health care bill reached the floor in the Senate, it contained no public option. Perhaps she is referencing some committee vote here, it is hard to say. A more straightforward way to put it would have been to say “I voted for a health care bill without a public option”…but this is a campaign ad afterall.
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