Hollywood goes local
by digby
A Democratic Super PAC founded in ’08 by documentary filmmaker Lee Hirsch (Bully) today is launching on TV a series of anti-Trump political ads in battleground states.
The first spot, featuring Republican grandmother Joan Powell of Butler County, Ohio, was created by Rachel Grady (Jesus Camp, Norman Lear). Predominantly Republican Butler County, just north of Cincinnati and within close proximity of Kentucky and Indiana, went 61% for GOP hopeful John McCain in ’08, and 62% for President Obama in ’12. In the 2016 Republican primary, John Kasich narrowly edged Donald Trump 41.6% to 39.6%, with a difference of 1395 votes.
On its web site, Local Voices says that, in the last two presidential election cycles, it produced and aired more than 50 campaign ads focusing on the white working class in battleground states. Local voices share their political views in spots that air in the same communities in which they were filmed, making for a “hyper-local marketing strategy,” the Super PAC maintains.
They say people are best persuaded by their own neighbors.
Here’s the ad mentioned above. And beneath is a new one: