r/facepalm • u/Impaler2009 • 5d ago

Which Portland? GOP ad buyer chooses wrong state for Senate campaign

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2026/10/12/portland-oregon-maine-susan-collins-ad-mixup/92222391007/
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u/FishermanExpensive 5d ago

To be fair, that $25k would have been equally wasted in Maine’s most liberal city. There was never a risk of Collins winning Portland.

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u/Willem_Dafuq 4d ago

Maybe but there’s something to be said of campaigning there to try to minimize losses. One complaint of democrats is they don’t do that in more red areas.

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u/skawn 5d ago

This seems a bit absurd. So you can buy ads and get a full refund if you blame it on your own ignorance?

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u/b_sketchy 5d ago

Sounds like the ad vendor actually made the error

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u/freundlichschade 4d ago

Still not nearly as good as
4 Seasons……Landscaping

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u/westerngrit 5d ago

Ad blocked.

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u/kellyoceanmarine 5d ago

Love it. It’s so easy for the GOP to forget the first Portland. .

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u/Riff_Ralph 5d ago

The Collins campaign will be holding a press conference at the Four Seasons at 5PM to clarify.

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u/maggie320 5d ago

Followed by an Atlanta Hawkeyes game.

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u/Prohydration 4d ago

Who did that? Rudy giuliani? The guy that booked the wrong four seasons?

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u/rob_1127 4d ago

With the shoe polish dye job melting in the sun.

Loved it!

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u/J_P_Freely 5d ago

Did the film them in front of a four seasons landscaping business?

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u/ZonaDesertRat 4d ago

A graduate of Bush's "No child left behind" Dept of Education.

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u/The_Possessor 3d ago

I wonder if the price for the Oregon media buy looked better than the Maine media buy, so without checking they just went with what was cheaper?

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u/OGLikeablefellow 3d ago

The Republicans all finding out they were propped up by Russia is really fun