Posted on 09/15/2012 2:19:36 PM PDT by lasereye
Here in the Northern Virginia ad market, Team Obama continues its merciless pounding of Mitt Romney. Although Team Romney says it is blitzing the airwaves in certain key areas, most of the ads in this market still come from Obama. And, as has been the case all season, the Obama ads are troublesome for Romney.
The latest I’ve seen (which apparently has been running for some time) quotes Romney to the effect that class size doesn’t matter in education. The ad also says that Romney supports the Ryan budget that “could cut education by 20 percent.” It concludes that Romney is simply out of touch with the educational needs of ordinary Americans, thus tying the ad to Obama’s larger theme that Romney is too wealthy to “get it.”
Romney hasn’t really said that class size doesn’t matter. Rather, his position is that class size is not determinative of educational outcomes and that other factors (parent involvement, teacher quality, good administrators) matter more.
Here in the Northern Virginia ad market, Team Obama continues its merciless pounding of Mitt Romney. Although Team Romney says it is blitzing the airwaves in certain key areas, most of the ads in this market still come from Obama. And, as has been the case all season, the Obama ads are troublesome for Romney.
The latest I’ve seen (which apparently has been running for some time) quotes Romney to the effect that class size doesn’t matter in education. The ad also says that Romney supports the Ryan budget that “could cut education by 20 percent.” It concludes that Romney is simply out of touch with the educational needs of ordinary Americans, thus tying the ad to Obama’s larger theme that Romney is too wealthy to “get it.”
Romney hasn’t really said that class size doesn’t matter. Rather, his position is that class size is not determinative of educational outcomes and that other factors (parent involvement, teacher quality, good administrators) matter more.
Romney bases this view on studies and on his experience as Massachusetts Governor. It is certainly a defensible position. Indeed, according to the Romney campaign, Obama’s own Secretary of Education has promoted teacher quality over class size as the key to educational outcomes.
But that’s not important right now. What matters is that this ad will alarm middle class voters in Northern Virginia and wherever else, in swing states, class sizes swell. Thus, it will cost Romney votes.
Frankly, every anti-Romney ad I’ve seen to date has struck me as effective. Team Obama seems well as its way to inflicting on Romney death by a thousand cuts.
That ad in question is a joke.
The whole “class size” issue is nothing more than a ploy, by teachers’ unions, to increase the number of teachers. (And, by extension, increase revenue from union dues.)
Class size doesn’t matter when you have retarded teachers.
There are two ads in NoVa that usually play after the 0bama ad. One is pro-romney positive ad that goes after 0bama on gas prices and defense cuts, then it is usually followed up by a crossroads ad that mocks 0bama’s forward.
I sick and tired of people wetting their pants.
Romney, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?
Romney may not “win” NoVa, but 0bama will not get the votes in NoVa to offset downstate loses.
They are going after 0bama, I see the ads all of the time.
I hope so. Guess I haven’t seen them - as the article says, I have seen more Obama than Romney ads.
I remember hearing a teacher say “give me 15 students and I can teach them, give me 30 and I can’t”. I happened to overhear it when the teacher was talking to another parent. Just common sense really.
Bingo.
I’ve seen the school budgets and how the schools operate in Northern Virginia. If they cared about class size, they could make classes smaller. They brag about a 6:1 teacher to pupil ratio. That is a joke. Unless your child is in special ed and getting 1:1 attention, they don’t care about actual class sizes. They only care about the number they report to make themselves look good. They get the 6:1 number by counting all personnel with even the remotest contact with students, not by looking at actual class sizes.
Also, the biggest line item in Northern Virginia public education is bilingual education. Get rid of that and you could cut class size in half at no extra cost.
Get rid of the bloated bureaucracy and their luxurious offices, plus the crap they buy that is only peripherally related to education, and you could cut the tax rate in half.
Ads, about about some stark reality? The Middle East is on fire and World War III has begun all because of the Marxist Puke in our White House and his reprehensible, inept Secretary of State. Now go to the gasoline station and fill your tank. Like the bill? Then go to the grocery store. Like the bill? Look at what your house is worth. Like the loss? Out of work, how do you like the job market? Your kids still living with you unemployed? Like the privacy? And if all that isn’t positive enough for you, you should enjoy facing a Death Panel thanks to DeathCare. Other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play???
Ditto down here in the Hampton Roads area of VA... I haven`t seen a pro-Romney TV ad in many days. Obama`s are up there every where you look. Romney promised an ad blitz after the DNC. So..... where is it????
I don`t know what his strategy is, but if Romney wants to win Virginia, he`s going to have to fight for it and there`s little evidence that`s happening. If the election night situation is such that Obama wins Virginia again, it`s going to be an early night and Romney will be giving his concession speech before polls close in the Mountain Time Zone.
Well.. nice that Romney is countering Obama`s ads up there in NorVa, but Obama is unopposed in the ad wars down here in the Hampton Roads area.
“The ad also says that Romney supports the Ryan budget that “could cut education by 20 percent”
I disagree with Ryan here. 20% is not nearly enough.
“I sick and tired of people wetting their pants.”
Can I sit next to you until the election is over?
Thirty in a class in my generation was not unusual, and even in a new regional School, there was never a class under 20.
The generation who used SLIDE RULES, and put someone on the Moon.
To be fair to the teachers, though, if we went home with bad grades we HEARD ABOUT IT nonstop. Contrast that to the "Columbine Parents": "Here's a computer, here's a car, get out of our sight". And the Single parent who is trying to feed them, and doesn't have an extra hour.
If the teachers are supposed to be Kiddie Warehouse managers or zookeepers, then class size, or little else, matter.
Incomprehensible. The election is seven weeks away and Romney’s hardest-hitting ad says that Obama is a nice guy who just isn’t really good enough to be president. Meanwhile, Obama ads are showing Romney disemboweling seniors and tearing their guts out with his teeth. This is the rough, tough Romney we’ve heard so much about? Obama in a walk.
Two things about class size. First, the federal government isn’t supposed to be funding local public education. Second, every time taxpayers get suckered into paying higher taxes they don’t get smaller classes, they get higher paid teachers.
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