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Week 2: Undecided voters rate campaign ads

Written by Tim Lambert, witf Multimedia News Director | Oct 14, 2010 8:55 AM

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Nasir Emadi, Carolyn McNamara
and Megan Barto

With election day less than three weeks away, more and more campaign commercials are popping up on television, the radio and online. In the gubernatorial race, ads for Democrat Dan Onorato and Republican Tom Corbett sometimes run back-to-back. Republican U.S. Senate candidate Pat Toomey and Democrat Joe Sestak are both airing spots attacking each other's record. So, it seemed logical to me and Capitol Bureau Chief Scott Detrow to turn to our Real Life | Real Issues undecided voters panel in week two of our conversations. We wanted to see what Nasir Emadi, Carolyn McNamara and Megan Barto think of some of these campaign ads. It's part of WITF's Election 2010 coverage.

LISTEN TO DISCUSSION:

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View segment #1:

Our undecided voters panel discusses the effectiveness of campaign

commercials they watched in both the gubernatorial and U.S. Senate races.

Segment #2:

Our undecided voters panel discusses the effectiveness of campaign

commercials they watched in both the gubernatorial and U.S. Senate races.

Segment #3:

After watching campaign ads for Joe Sestak (D) and Pat Toomey (R)
in the U.S. Senate race, undecided voter Carolyn McNamara says she was swayed a little bit.