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It's hard not to watch Sharron Angle's new television ad, which features menacing shots of illegal immigrants sneaking across the border…and not be reminded of the notorious race-baiting spot that Jesse Helms aired in the closing days of his 1990 Senate campaign against Harvey Gantt.
The same basic technique is evident in both the Helms and Angle spots: portraying the Democratic candidate as a politically correct social tinkerer who is more interested in helping undeserving minorities than "you."
