On this week’s show we have a very special guest: Vinny Minchillo, creative director for Scott Howell and Company, one of the leading Republican media firms in the country. Vinny’s reel includes work for President Bush, Meg Whitman for Governor, and John Thune’s campaign to defeat Tom Daschle. On the show, we discuss the best and worst of political advertising in 2010, where the medium is headed, and mix it up over Vinny’s recent piece in AdAge, “What Internet Election? Why Online Advertising Didn’t Matter.”

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Best & Worst TV/Video Ads of 2010

  • Vinny

Best: Chinese Professor – Citizens Against Government Waste

Worst: I’m You – Christine O’Donnell

  • Patrick

Best: Dead Aim – Joe Manchin

Best: The Switch – Joe Sestak

Worst: Demon Sheep – Carly Fiorina

  • Mindy

Best: Dead Aim – Joe Manchin

J.D. Huckster – John McCain

Best: Saturn – Scott Walker

Worst: Taliban Dan – Alan Grayson

The TV/Online Advertising Debate