Porter-Titus Race

The close race of Jon Porter and Dina Titus for the 3rd congressional district may have some effect on voters in the presidential race. Porter is the current republican congressman for this district, and Titus looks to use some of the same tactics as the democrats are using in the presidential election to beat him in this race.

Both campaigns, like the national election campaigns, have turned negative. Titus takes a play from Obama’s playbook and ran an ad against Porter for voting with Bush a majority of the time and implying he helped bring on the economic crisis this way. Titus in the ad says enough of the same, sound familiar?

Porter’s counterattack ad went after Titus as a habitual tax-raiser. With all the corruption on way street, he says, who needs another tax-and-spend politician. This is almost identical to McCain’s attacks on Obama.

With this race so heavily publicized and both candidates going back and froth with some of the same tactics that are being used in the national election, voters are hearing double the advertisements of Democrats and Republicans. These ads might cause the influx of new voters in the area to vote strictly on party line and relate McCain to Porter and Titus to Obama without closely examining policies.