It's a mad ad world

Unlike boring old Britain, pretty much anything goes in US political advertising, a tradition that has produced some great ads but mainly produces nasty, cheap negative attacks along the lines of: "Senator Blah voted to increases taxes on food. America's children eat food. Senator Blah hates America's children. Senator Blah - bad for America." But nothing, frankly, can prepare the mind for this ad from the Carly Fiorina campaign . Fiorina is running in California's Republican senate seat primary against one guy named Tom Campbell: Truly bizarre, and too many sheep. As attack ads, though, it pales beside this barn-burner aimed at Pat Quinn in the Illinois Democrat governor's primary, using a savage clip of the late and much-beloved former mayor of Chicago, Harold Washington: (The primary between Quinn and Dan Hynes is still too close to call , although Quinn has declared victory.)