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    Eric Zorn: Politician's poisonous commercial rips a page from the Trump playbook

    by Eric Zorn, Chicago Tribune Feb 07, 2018 3 minutes

    CHICAGO - Jeanne Ives' new political attack ad is brilliantly dreadful and dreadfully brilliant.

    Dreadful because it trots out ugly stereotypes and peddles brazen lies.

    Brilliant because, by provoking an indignant response not only from liberals but also mainstream members of Ives' own Republican Party, the ad is giving her a big shot of what her campaign now needs most: publicity.

    The outrage is a feature, not a bug.

    Ives, a strongly conservative state

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