FRANKFORT, Ky. — Sen. Mitch McConnell’s latest campaign video hit all the necessary Kentucky high points: horse racing, bluegrass — and Duke basketball? ADVERTISING FRANKFORT, Ky. — Sen. Mitch McConnell’s latest campaign video hit all the necessary Kentucky high points:
FRANKFORT, Ky. — Sen. Mitch McConnell’s latest campaign video hit all the necessary Kentucky high points: horse racing, bluegrass — and Duke basketball?
The campaign was scrambling Tuesday morning to remove an online video that features a split-second clip of Duke basketball players celebrating their 2010 national championship. The mistake comes as the state prepares for the Kentucky vs. Louisville matchup in the Sweet 16 on Friday night.
“The ad was intended to highlight Kentucky’s basketball dominance and obviously the web ad vendor has become so accustomed to watching national championship celebrations in the bluegrass state that they made a mistake with one of the images,” McConnell spokesman Allison Moore, a Kentucky graduate, said.
A spokeswoman for Alison Lundergan Grimes, McConnell’s likely Democratic opponent, quipped McConnell has “been in Washington so long that he doesn’t know the difference between Duke and UK.”
