"Republican" women for Obama ad

[y4m]

One of the women in the Obama campaign's new video of Republicans supporting the president because of GOP positions on women's rights appears not to be a Republican at all.

Maria Ciano who is featured in the web video has been a registered Democrat since October 2006 according to voter registration records.

"People like me and my family have realized that the Republican Party once was inline with our views, but are no longer," the Colorado resident says in the video.

The video is one component of a larger Obama campaign push on women in light of the recent controversy surrounding Todd Akin.

www.buzzfeed.com/zekejmiller/republican-in-obama-ad-is-a-democrat?s=mobile

[y4m]

Someone else looked up and copied the likes on her FB page...LOL

* Democracy For America
* Tar Sands Action
* Amy Goodman
* Barack Obama
* Costoftaxcuts.com
* Being Liberal
* MoveOn.org
* Bernie Sanders Tells You A Secret the GOP Would Rather You Didn’t Know
* Miss Piggy Delivers the Best Takedown of Fox News We’ve Seen All Month
* Think Progress
* The Best Quote From Barack Obama We’ve Seen This Week
* Dow and Monsanto Join Forces to Poison America’s Heartland
* Climate Reality
* Grist.org
* The Amazing Victory Scored With Obama That More People Should Be Talking About
* The Sierra Club
* The Buffett Rule
* Obama For America–Colorado
* UniteWomen.org
* Denver Young Democrats
* Obamacare
* Latinos For Obama
* Michelle Obama
* Veterans For Obama
* I Love It When I Wake Up In the Morning and Obama Is President
* Obama Truth Team
* Democratic Party

www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/08/republican-women-for-obama.php

[Deleted]

They could have used me too then.... I worked on a Statewide campaign in MA for a republican candidate in 2002.

[Deleted]

Do we have more information on this? Where in Colorado is she? Were there heavily contested Republican primaries? How long was she registered as a Republican before becoming registered as a Democrat in 2006? Did she actually vote in Democratic primaries every year? It's hard to know whether this is actually disingenuous without more information on this woman's political background.

I'm honestly not all that familiar with the whole registered partisan concept because all my primary voting has occurred in an open primary state. I show up and vote in whichever primary I want, no registering required.

[Deleted]

Hmm, the follow up post is not encouraging.

Related: what is up with the need to use Facebook to document your every political stance? I hate it.

[Deleted]

Aug 25, 2012 15:05:03 GMT -5 @angryharpy said:

Hmm, the follow up post is not encouraging.

Related: what is up with the need to use Facebook to document your every political stance? I hate it.

What does it say that I follow Rick Perry, Sarah Palin, Romney, Newt, Scott Dejarlais, Corker, Alexander among others on FB?

[Deleted]

I can't see the video on my dinosaur of a work computer. Who put it out?

[y4m]

Aug 25, 2012 15:08:21 GMT -5 @septimus said:

Aug 25, 2012 15:05:03 GMT -5 @angryharpy said:

Hmm, the follow up post is not encouraging.

Related: what is up with the need to use Facebook to document your every political stance? I hate it.

What does it say that I follow Rick Perry, Sarah Palin, Romney, Newt, Scott Dejarlais, Corker, Alexander among others on FB?

I assume you also follow Obama and other Dems, right? And maybe not "I'm so happy when I wake up and Dr.Scott Dejarlais is in Congress"

[y4m]

It's an official campaign ad, not an outside group.

[Deleted]

Thanks. That wasn't clear from the text on buzzfeed. I'd have to install a newer version of Flash to be able to play videos, and I don't trust this thing to be able to handle that.

[Deleted]

Aug 25, 2012 15:10:25 GMT -5 y4m said:

Aug 25, 2012 15:08:21 GMT -5 @septimus said:

What does it say that I follow Rick Perry, Sarah Palin, Romney, Newt, Scott Dejarlais, Corker, Alexander among others on FB?

I assume you also follow Obama and other Dems, right? And maybe not "I'm so happy when I wake up and Dr.Scott Dejarlais is in Congress"

I wake up thankful that after redistricting Martha blackburn will be my rep......

[ttt]

Aug 25, 2012 14:59:48 GMT -5 y4m said:

Someone else looked up and copied the likes on her FB page...LOL

* Democracy For America
* Tar Sands Action
* Amy Goodman
* Barack Obama
* Costoftaxcuts.com
* Being Liberal
* MoveOn.org
* Bernie Sanders Tells You A Secret the GOP Would Rather You Didn’t Know
* Miss Piggy Delivers the Best Takedown of Fox News We’ve Seen All Month
* Think Progress
* The Best Quote From Barack Obama We’ve Seen This Week
* Dow and Monsanto Join Forces to Poison America’s Heartland
* Climate Reality
* Grist.org
* The Amazing Victory Scored With Obama That More People Should Be Talking About
* The Sierra Club
* The Buffett Rule
* Obama For America–Colorado
* UniteWomen.org
* Denver Young Democrats
* Obamacare
* Latinos For Obama
* Michelle Obama
* Veterans For Obama
* I Love It When I Wake Up In the Morning and Obama Is President
* Obama Truth Team
* Democratic Party

www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/08/republican-women-for-obama.php

Huh...I wonder who she's voting for? I wish she would be more clear about her political opinions.

[laurenpetro]

Is she a paid actor?

[soontobeka]

Good grief...I do not why they do shit like this.

[IIOY]

Aug 25, 2012 14:59:48 GMT -5 y4m said:

* Miss Piggy Delivers the Best Takedown of Fox News We’ve Seen

This is my favorite.

[mominatrix]

Aug 25, 2012 15:03:38 GMT -5 @angryharpy said:

Do we have more information on this? Where in Colorado is she? Were there heavily contested Republican primaries? How long was she registered as a Republican before becoming registered as a Democrat in 2006? Did she actually vote in Democratic primaries every year? It's hard to know whether this is actually disingenuous without more information on this woman's political background.

I think the bolded is key. (didn't watch the video)... is she 70 and she switched parties in 2006, because she didn't like the direction of the R party and was all into Obama... or is she 26 and became a D pretty much right out of the gate?

[y4m]

I couldn't find her age, but here's her current FB photo. Thinking not 70...

[ttt]

All of her "likes" come from 2012, so I wouldn't say they are necessarily evidence that she has never been a Republican.

[marie427]

I'd like to know what Bernie Sanders' secret that the GOP doesn't want me to know is.

[ttt]

Incidentally, I watched the video and unless I missed it, she didn't say she was a Republican.

[ttt]

Also LOL
www.examiner.com/article/alleged-gop-woman-obama-ad-a-registered-democrat

He also notes that Ciano's Facebook page indicates that she "likes" a number of far-left wing organizations, including Think Progress, MoveOn.org and the Sierra Club.

The Sierra Club is a far-left wing organization??

[y4m]

I think she's the one who says she comes from a conservative family. But the campaign itself titles the ad "Republican women for Obama" so that's how they are holding her out. See their official YouTube here: m.youtube.com/?rdm=4ozmbjt2z&reload=3#/user/BarackObamadotcom?ajax=True&client=mv-google

Her mom is also in the video, and is all over her Facebook page saying things like Rachel Maddow is her favorite show and referring to republicans as "the idiots"

www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/08/republican-women-for-obama.php

Mostly this amuses me because DH's firm makes ads with real people and they actually do a background/Internet check on them complete with Facebook likes, etc. This is sloppy campaign work at best, intentionally misleading at worst.

[ttt]

This is really, really stupid of the campaign to not vet these people first of all, or at the very least, tell them they had to lock down their Facebook pages.

[basilosaurus]

I voted for Bush once, and I thought democrat was a dirty word. And I pretty much switched my voting habits solely due to women's issues. It's only been in the last 5 years or so that I've become a more well rounded liberal. In a family which is still staunchly republican.

I would never have watched maddow during my liberal pro choice but apathetic about politics days, but now I want to marry her.

So, yeah, I buy it. Still, dumb move in the campaign's part.

[MrsAxilla]

Aug 25, 2012 18:14:29 GMT -5 basilosaurus said:

So, yeah, I buy it. Still, dumb move in the campaign's part.

I don't know... Dovetailing off SBP, I think it's targeting a large segment of young people who leave the nest with a particular political identity that they really know nothing about. Most kids can't vote until college, so this might be the first time they're paying any attention. The party differences WRT women's issues are pretty stark, and just because mom and dad are Republican doesn't mean they are, too.

[heyjude]

I'm sure my grandma would be a Republican Woman for Obama. She's been a registered republican for her entire life but sometime during Reagan she couldn't take it any more. She refuses to switch parties though because she's holding out hope that the party will come back to its senses. She would choke if she had to call herself an actual democrat. Lol.

[dev22]

Aug 25, 2012 18:14:29 GMT -5 basilosaurus said:

I voted for Bush once, and I thought democrat was a dirty word. And I pretty much switched my voting habits solely due to women's issues. It's only been in the last 5 years or so that I've become a more well rounded liberal. In a family which is still staunchly republican.

I would never have watched maddow during my liberal pro choice but apathetic about politics days, but now I want to marry her.

So, yeah, I buy it. Still, dumb move in the campaign's part.

All I can contribute to this conversation is: Move out the way, she is mine.

[JLN]

I used to be a republican. *gasp*. And so did my long-haired hippy husband.

[MrsAxilla]

FTR, I have always been a D. I remember arguing about global warming and rain forests with my step-dad at 13.

[heyjude]

Yeah. I've always been a D. I used to debate gay rights and abortion w/ my classmates in elementary school.