Republican David Perdue was expected to have a pretty smooth ride toward winning Georgia’s open US Senate seat. Michelle Nunn, the daughter of a former Democratic senator, made it a close race partly by raising questions about whether Mr. Perdue’s business career helped ordinary workers.
In this ad, residents of a North Carolina mill town talk about the job losses that followed Perdue’s tenure as Pillowtex CEO. The real Pillowtex story is more complex than Ms. Nunn’s ad conveys, but this kind of ad can be very effective in sowing voter doubts about a candidate.
