The Puzzling Case of Dan Fisher's Video Views
We've talked about this before, exaggerated claims of video views by gubernatorial candidate Dan Fisher hoping that an adult would step up and bring it to their attention and stop the deception. However a few weeks ago the John Birch Society was at it again, sending out this email from OCPAC:
"John Michener
To Oklahoma Conservative Political Action Committee
Sep 19 at 11:31 AM
Dan Fisher's campaign for Governor of Oklahoma has been wildly successful thus far. Last week Dan launched a six-minute video explaining his first campaign platform plank, which is to Abolish Abortion. The video has had 124,000 views."
Yet as the article picture shows the actual views on the very link that OCPAC used in their newsletter shows only 3,000 views, a far cry from 124,000 views that they claim. Early on in political races the campaigns might try to gin up some hysteria and claim momentum but it can backfire on the campaign when people can tell you are telling obvious lies.
The week showed huge divisions in the rank and file John Birch Society over the support for the Dan Fisher campaign with many of the average Birchers expressing dismay at the choice of Dan Fisher in the election. That is unusual; birchers usually march in lockstep so one wonders if the leadership even bothered to poll their members before giving Dan Fisher the John Birch Society endorsement.
Not that it is going to help Fisher with more than a few hundred votes, in fact it is going to cost him tens of thousands of votes as the John Birch Society has a very tainted public reputation be it fair or not.
We received many calls and emails on Dan Fisher's abortion abolitionist stance as well with the majority of the pro life supporters calling Fisher an embarrassment and agreeing that the abolitionist stance weakened the united front of the pro life camp. The pro abolitionists are considered extreme by the majority of the pro life groups mainly because the abolitionist stance seems to be caused by the abolitionists stance that the rest of the pro life groups aren't strident enough or aren't taking action.
