A Campaign Ad Captures a Movement
A Campaign Ad Captures a Movement Can an appeal to unity win? Dan Rather and Elliot Kirschner Oct 9 Are our politics hopelessly divided? Is there a way for a politician with a message of unity to break through? What is the right balance between compromise and convictions? Do most people just automatically, inevitably rally around the R or the D next to the name on the ballot? Or not? All these questions are top of mind as we enter the stretch run of a political season in which the future of American democracy is at stake and there are more storylines and potential surprises than in a season of Days of our Lives. Considering what’s at risk, it’s easy to lapse into cynicism, especially when you see what is happening in Georgia. There, the Republican Senate candidate — former football star Herschel Walker — is being swamped by a tidal wave of hypocrisy around abortion rights. A series of reports from The Daily Beast ...