by Randy Shannon
PDA 12th CD Chapter
Progressive Democrats of America – Economic & Social Justice Team
Most people already know or sense that Pennsylvania has dropped from 8th to 47th in job creation under Corbett. That’s an important issue that Corbett lies about in this campaign mailer.
The real message in this mailer is subliminal. “The effectiveness of subliminal messaging has been demonstrated to prime individual responses and stimulate mild emotional activity.” – Wikipedia
The images of Gubernatorial candidate Tom Wolf are several shades darker than the images of President Obama in this Republican mailer. The reality is that Wolf’s skin color is much lighter than Obama’s.
The purpose of this subliminal message is to stimulate voter turnout with an appeal to racial prejudice based on skin color. The Republicans consider this effective now because they have spent the last couple years spreading racist images, jokes, cartoons, references, insinuations, insults, and lies about Obama. They expect many voters to stay home on election day, discouraged by the failure of the government to address so many problems. So the strategy is to use fear and racism to boost the turnout of Republican votes, overcoming their passivity in this election.
Beaver County Blue: Voice of the 17th CD of Progressive Democrats of America 
NPR All Things Considered again hammered away at Obama with introductory comments by (Bob) Seigel that his popularity was underwater. After a long segment in a follow up by Tamara Keith I think it was finally pointed out that George Bush was at an even lower popularity in the 2008 election lead up. But it took awhile. Of course Obama is getting ‘tripped up’. The ‘poor guy’. He’s got troubles like those above. In the NPR case they are working on a national scale, likely funded by the 3 to 6 members of the wealthiest 0.1% who have names pronounced something like ‘Koch’.