Huffpost Politics   Bill Scher Headshot  The Health Care Ad War
In Wisconsin: Johnson Uses Polls. Feingold Uses People.  Posted:
Updated:  Yesterday I highlighted several campaign ads directly
and indirectly defending a vote for the health care reform law.
These ads are airing on the grounds that you can't win an
argument without making one.  One of those ads -- Wisconsin Sen.
Russ Feingold's -- has drawn an indirect response from his
opponent, CEO Ron Johnson.  It's up to the voters to decide
which ad is strongest, but I'm struck by Johnson's decision to
explicitly use polls to tell voters what they think.  The ad
asserts: "A majority of Wisconsinites opposed the government
takeover of health care" with a graphic citing a poll result of
"55% oppose."  Politifact Wisconsin deemed that claim "False" on
several counts: the health care reform law is not a "government
takeover," the polls the campaign cited did not use the words
"government takeover," the polls cited are of subjectively
defined "likely voters" an