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Thursday, November 8, 2012

Busy Political Ad Season Ends For Bethesda Voice-Over Artist

Jane Lueders recorded Democratic campaign ads from a closet-turned-studio in her Bethesda home, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Voice-over artist Jane Lueders may be the only person in Bethesda sad to see the political ad season come to an end. For many this election season, Leuders has become the voice of the Democratic party, the Wall Street Journal reports, using a closet-turned-studio in her Bethesda home to record political advertisements broadcast nationwide. Lueders told the Wall Street Journal that negative campaign ads are her favorite to record during busy campaign season. "There are so many expressions of negativity…each one is a slightly different inflection of the voice which involves using different expressions and parts of the chest, larynx, mouth and nose to get the right sound," Lueders wrote in an e-mail to WSJ. Lueders saw her annual income jump …

Thursday, November 1, 2012

SPEAK OUT: What Do You Hate About Political Commercials?

Do you see any value in the onslaught of political ads?

Just like holiday decorations that seem to appear in stores earlier and earlier each year, it seems like every election cycle features the ubiquitous campaign ads sooner and sooner. At times, it seems like the usual TV ad buyers—Coke, Apple, Honda, etc.—can't even find 30 seconds to squeeze their messages in between attack ads. Do these ads provide value, or do they simply confuse potential voters? On the national stage, pro-Obama ads target the now infamous "47 percent," Bain Capital or Mitt Romney's apparently changing positions on hot button issues. On the red state side, ads attack Obama on health care, the economy and foreign policy. Locally, races in Virginia seem to sink even deeper, with candidates slamming each other on education…

Carol Powell

4:27 pm on Friday, November 2, 2012

What's driving me crazy at the moment is the ad on AOL for the Dream Act. Whenever I go to check my e-mail it starts without prompting and won't shut down! I am offended by it on two scores; it's got Obama's voice, thus giving him a free ad and it's being forced on me by AOL permitting it to become part of their service. I am voting against the "Dream Act" BECAUSE of this.   more ›

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