[nutmeg]

We spent the equivalent of two weeks in Maine recently: mid-August, and again in early September. I was astonished at the volume of pro and con Kavanaugh TV commercials directed at Susan Collins. They were *constantly* running, across several channels. The "vote NO on Kavanaugh" ads were all about "protecting a woman's right to choose" of course.

I assume the same has been going on in AZ and AK...

[miss marmelstein]

That’s interesting. We cancelled our vacation to Maine this summer because we thought we were moving out of state (the deal fell through). It would have been interesting to see this on local tv.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

I live in Maine.

Those ad buys have tapered off, but the anti-Kavanaugh spots were irritating, featuring a middle-aged woman who has two daughters, was in an “abusive relationship” when she was young, became pregnant, and had an abortion “because that was the only option available to her.”

I’m yelling at the TV, “What about adoption as an option?”

There were endless spots in August and September. I haven’t seen any in the past week. Some of them were truly awful: “He put his hand over my mouth, I thought he would kill me, etc.” BS.

Some of those spots were pro-Kavanaugh, like you said.

All the ads urging Collins to vote “no” or “yes” (if the were pro-Kavanaugh spots).