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Tiffany Brown faces an uphill battle if she wants to live up to her Twitter handle and become Atlanta’s next mayor.

As a write-in candidate, the Spelman College grad — whose 2005 mayoral campaign was, you guessed it, unsuccessful — won’t have the benefit of having her name on the ballot. That poses a problem for voters who’d like to vote for Brown, but might not remember how to spell her name. “Is it Tiffany with an ‘i?’” “Brown with a ‘q?’” These are very real questions millions of Americans ask themselves each day.

So like other candidates, Brown’s produced a commercial to raise her profile among voters. The spot will be shown on such cable channels as Bravo, the Food Network and ESPN2 until Nov. 3.

The ad contains LIVE SHOCKING FOOTAGE of crimes in progress, including a German DJ from the 1990s snatching someone’s purse as they get into their car. I, for one, am shocked that a cameraman would sit in garages and at local ATMs and wait for crimes to occur. Ms. Brown, you must report these acts to the appropriate authorities at once!

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First we had John Oxendine’s “innovative” commercial in which a giant bull destroyed homes and slaughtered a mutant rodent at Turner Field and Buford Dam.

Now there’s an ad pillorying the leading GOP gubernatorial candidate. Tagline: “The Ox. At least he went to college.” That’s an obvious (and not entirely accurate) jab at Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel, who’s also running for the GOP gubernatorial nomination. She recently said she attended night college classes, but didn’t earn a diploma.

Regardless, flash animation lives on in Georgia political campaigns. Huzzah!

(H/T to Andre Walker at Blog for Georgia)

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Atlanta mayoral candidate and grassroots activist Kyle Keyser is the latest City Hall hopeful to release a campaign commercial. Only this one won’t be airing during every “Georgia Gang” commercial break, a la the frontrunners’ ads. It’s an online-only spot.

The ad was shot by Atlanta-based filmmaker Raegan Hodge. The tune is by local musicians Judi Chicago. Keyser’s campaign says it’s an in-kind contribution.

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Yesterday afternoon, the five or six Georgia journalists who still have jobs received an email from the John Oxendine campaign.

On Thursday night, the email said, the 2010 GOP gubernatorial candidate would release a “‘new media’ advertisement” hitting Roy Barnes. A campaign spokesman said the ad “demonstrates John Oxendine’s commitment to using innovative, cutting-edge genre to communicate serious messages in creative mediums.”

The release included this hilarious paragraph:

The [event where the ad will be released] is being held at an undisclosed laser-tag facility and is closed to the public. After viewing the commercial, the volunteers will enjoy pizza and laser-tag.

Reporters were under strict orders not to publicize the advertisement until its formal release tonight at 7:20 p.m. Reporters complied. Not out of respect, really, but because we didn’t care.

This, my friends, is the cutting-edge technology, all four minutes of it:

If you don’t have the patience to listen to the man with the slow drawl talk about “Obama liberals” and choppy animations of “The Ox” headbutting a rat all the way to ole socialist France,  then we’ve provided screenshots for your enjoyment after the jump.

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Steve Brodie, one of six candidates in the Atlanta City Council District 6 race to represent the Midtown, Virginia-Highland and Candler Park neighborhoods, is first out of the gate with nontraditional campaign commercials.

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U.S. Senate Democratic candidate Jim Martin released a new ad today that says incumbent Republican Saxby Chambliss voted against bills that would help military veterans.

Since taking office in 2003, the ad says, Chambliss has voted 23 times against increasing funding for veteran’s health care programs. The ad also says the senator voted against the latest GI bill for veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan that would provide full educational benefits to soliders upon their return.

I’ll update the post when I hear back from Chambliss’ campaign. Expect a blitz of these ads leading up to Tuesday’s runoff.

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I’ll let them say it:

Is it just me, or has our state’s senior Senator been going to a tanning bed? On my computer it looks like he’s got a goggles tan.

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It’s not a visit from Pres.-elect Barack Obama to help U.S. Senate Democratic nominee Jim Martin, but it’s something. Below, listen to the ad that’ll brainwash every single Georgian over the age of 18 to visit the polls on Dec. 2 and vote for Martin in his runoff against incumbent Republican Saxby Chambliss.

It might now be safe to say the Peach State won’t be getting a visit before the runoff. The Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza interviewed several anonymous Democratic operatives who say that a visit to Georgia may just not be worth the political risk.

I know, I know. I too am feeling a little…I don’t know…empty. But we’ll carry on, my fellow Atlantans. Be strong. Take comfort in this photo of a kitten.

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U.S. Senate Democratic nominee Jim Martin isn’t waiting for election workers to finish counting the ballots in Fulton County before he starts blanketing the airwaves.

And maybe this is just me, but I think he mentions Pres.-elect Barack Obama once or twice in there.

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With just days left before votes are to be counted, Barack Obama is rolling out a new ad about the economy that’s slated to air in Georgia and North Dakota .

Here it is:

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Now that pollsters are saying U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss is running the risk of losing his job, attacks are flying left and right in the race for his seat.

Once Chambliss started to feel vulnerable, he finally began mentioning the name of his Democratic nominee, Jim Martin, who was happy to just ramp up the attacks on the incumbent. And once the polls showed the race as close as even, Democratic Party heavies started pouring money into the state. (Martin outraised Chambliss in the third quarter.) Even Libertarian Party nominee Allen Buckley  is lobbing Molotov commercials at Chambliss’ camp. (I’d like to add Buckley to the list of people Martin needs to thank should he unseat Chambliss.)

Well, Martin’s got a new shame-on-you-Saxby spot that says while he pushed for legislation and facilities that helped Georgia children, the incumbent Republican’s just worked for Wall Street.

Check out CL’s 2008 Voter’s Guide and add your comments to races you care about. It continues to be updated, and on Oct. 21, come back to find a handy cheat-sheet to guide to the voting booth.

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Allen Buckley, the Libertarian nominee for U.S. Senate, has three new radio ads targeting incumbent Republican Saxby Chambliss. Whereas the first ads focused on Chambliss’ spending policies and his first term in the U.S. Senate, these spots — which don’t mention Buckley’s name or say he approved the ads — look at the incumbent’s ties with Imperial Sugar and his “bum knee” that got him out of serving in Vietnam. One even depicts a phone call between a soldier in Iraq and his mother talking about Imperial Sugar, the Savannah sugar refinery that exploded earlier this year and killed 14 people.

Just like the first set of ads, these ones are quite interesting. The Imperial Sugar ad will be targeted around Savannah, the “Chambliss deferments from Vietnam” ad will be aimed at Columbus and Augusta, and the one that discusses Chambliss’ alleged role in the nation’s faltering economy will be geared toward smaller Georgia towns where workers are most likely feeling the pinch.

The gentleman who dropped off the ads at CL’s offices — the same man-in-the-bad-Hawaiian-shirt who gave me the first set of spots a few weeks back — says the Buckley campaign has been working with a 527 to promote the candidate’s message. He declined to name the group, but said it’s “not a Libertarian one.” He said the campaign is also reaching out to Chambliss’ old Sigma Chi brothers from the University of Georgia for information about his deferments. (”We hear Saxby used to like to play football behind the house,” he said.)

Follow the jump to hear the ads and read the scripts.

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That’s one of the many interesting factoids you could learn about U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss from the two-minute biography video his campaign released yesterday. I’d rehash the whole thing, but if Chambliss isn’t going to call his  Libertarian opponent Allen Buckley a pot-smoking Frisbee tosser, then I don’t want anything to do with it.

Here it is, in all its glory:

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Jim Galloway at the AJC’s Political Insider points us toward U.S. Senate Democratic nominee Jim Martin’s second campaign ad. In it, the former state lawmaker focuses on his middle-class roots and says U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss’ tenure in Washington, D.C. has been making all the wrong decisions on war, energy and the economy.

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Jim Martin, the former state lawmaker itching to unseat U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss, on Nov. 4, released his newest campaign commercial. It features former Sen. Max Cleland, the war veteran Chambliss defeated in 2002 after a bitter campaign.

In it, Cleland says Martin — himself a former U.S. Army intelligence officer — is the kind of leader the country needs. (That’s also a bit of a jab at Chambliss, who dodged service in Vietnam because of a bum knee.)

Watch it below.

(Hat tip to Jim Galloway at the AJC)

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They’ll air statewide this week and during next week’s Republican convention.

This one’s big on liberty and the freedom to make choices. It stars Chambliss.

This one stars Chambliss’ wife and includes footage of the U.S. senator commandeering a tractor from a peaceful farmer, a simple man who just wants to put food on the table. Chambliss, says his wife Juliane, has a heart.

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