Unemployment and job insecurity take center stage in U.S. Senate candidate Linda McMahon's latest TV ad.
"A lot of people ask me why I'm running for Senate,'' McMahon says. "Here's why: this lunch box. It represents a lot of people who've lost jobs. Washington has created the perfect job-killing storm with higher taxes, deficit spending and expensive health care mandates. We need experienced job-creators in Washington, not more job-killers.''
There is a real contradiction, though, between the battered metal lunch box and the gleaming white kitchen, with its goose-neck faucet and vintage subway tile, that serves as the ad's backdrop.