Making Google Money

In honor of the $1.6 billion dollar purchase of YouTube by Google, here are a bunch of videos that have caught my eye.

Here's pretty-boy Tom Kean Jr., skating on his father's name in the New Jersey Senate race, running away from the mother of a dead soldier. Classy.



Sherrod Brown in Ohio with a powerful ad, one of the best of the cycle, hammering Sen. Mike DeWine for missing Intelligence Committee meetings and generally being clueless on national security:



Ned Lamont comes up with a similar theme in his latest ad, letting Joe Lieberman use his own words from 1988 against him. Lieberman reached the Senate by savaging Lowell Weicker for missing Senate votes; he's guilty of doing exactly the same thing in recent years.



Phil Angelides steps up with what I believe is his first ad of the cycle (others were put up by ABC and the CDP). It's a bio spot, but a good one, and with all the ads in California being so negative, this one might cut through the clutter.



Meanwhile this piece, not an ad but a grassroots video put together by PowerPac, perfectly uses Arnold's one slip-up in the debate, his claim that the Special Election of 2005 had "good ideas." Arnold's actually been saying this for quite a while now, and this is the first time someone's called him on it. The ABC, a collection of firefighters, teachers, cops and nurses, have seized on this line as well. The larger a story this gets, the better a chance Angelides has to tighten up the race.