Nigger

Forget Karl Rove, it's the Lee Atwater playbook that is still being used by the GOP.

Via Talking Points Memo, I see that we are able to see some results of the Corker "call me" ad in tennessee and it's not pretty:

The poll suggests that a Republican ad mentioning that Ford attended a Super Bowl party attended by Playboy playmates and featuring a white woman telling Ford to "call me," hurt Ford. A whopping 81 percent of likely voters saw the ad.

While 67 percent said it would have no effect on their vote, 23 percent said it made them more likely to vote for Corker and 10 percent said it made them more likely to vote for Ford.

Of those who said the ad affected their vote, by two to one they decided to vote for Corker. TPM also has a copy (pdf) of a slick mailer put out by this new national character assasination squad called Common Sense Ohio which says "Bob Corker and Harold Ford are separated by more than their school colors..."

Shameful. Effective.