Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Obama “Romney Tax Plan” Internet Political Ad

In a web ad intended to ridicule the lack of specifics (and fuzzy math) of Mitt Romney’s tax plan, the Obama campaign has created an extremely fun website. It looks like it’s a Romney campaign webpage, but it has a button on it to click for details on Romney’s tax plan, and when you try to click the button, it runs away, and it keeps running away, all over the window. It’s really quite fun. I love it! And it makes its point without reminding us of the fact that stated policy plans generally do not pan out as intended anyway, so they’re really not all that important as anything other than a general sense of what to expect if the candidate wins, making specifics relatively moot (Mitt Romney will go back to “supply-side economics”: that’s all you really need to know). But I love this web ad masquerading as a Romney webpage: it’s really fun, which is something most of this campaign is sadly lacking.

Here is the elusive tax plan: