Campaigning on Education: Democrats Target GOP, Tea Party
Democrats' Campaign Ads Target Republican Calls to Eliminate the Education Department
With the midterm elections just one month away, jobs, health care, the national debt, and the war in Afghanistan are all hot-button issues for voters. But what about education? Across the country Democratic candidates are targeting their opponents' education policies, hoping to sway independent voters away from the GOP.
Eager to take the focus off the strugglingeconomy, Democrats are attacking Republicans in television ads for wanting to cut education funding and, in some cases, abolish the federal Department of Education.
"Who is Ken Buck? And does he speak for Colorado?" Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., asks in a campaign ad. Bennet goes on to show footage of Buck, Bennet's Republican opponent, saying, "We don't need a Department of Education."