Mark Amodei has won the Republican nomination for the upcoming special election in Nevada's second congressional district. Congrats, Mark! How is he celebrating? By making this dumb ad about the Chinese Communist Army taking over Washington D.C., unless he's elected as America's newest congressional backbencher.

Former ambassador to China and Utah governor Jon Huntsman Jr. is gearing up to run for president! That single human being in Iowa, at least, is pleased as punch. What do we know about this blossoming mute? According to this ad, he's the "candidate for president who rides motocross to relax." Nifty! That Oval Office fridge better be stocked like the dickens with Mountain Dew Code Red.

Barack Obama may have a Democratic primary opponent after all! But not really, is the thing. Terrifying anti-abortion activist Randall Terry is making good on his plan to challenge Barack Obama in Iowa, mostly over the president's long record of killing babies.

Former Godfather's Pizza CEO Herman Cain is doing just well enough in the polls, now, to afford a country music video for his presidential campaign. Look at all of the white conservatives here, trying to show how not-racist they are. They will ride the "Herman Cain Train" with Herman Cain, sure! No problems with that! Race is but a social construct!

Newt Gingrich's trashing of Rep. Paul Ryan's Medicare privatization plan on last Sunday's Meet the Press sparked a united Republican revolt against him, one much worse than anything the left is capable of doing to its own. All but four House Republicans had voted for Ryan's plan a matter of weeks ago, after all, and they're not keen on hearing internal dissent voiced in such places as Sunday morning's top political talk show, during the launch of a campaign.

Los Angeles Democrat Dan Adler, of "I'M KOREAN! WE MINORITIES SHOULD STICK TOGETHER!" campaign ad fame, received 285 votes in his Congressional primary. That's half of one percent of the vote. I guess the Asian-Jewish laundromat vote wasn't as critical as he thought? [Previously]

Debbie Georgatos doesn't release "campaign ads" in her quest for the leadership of Dallas County's Republican party. She releases films. Epic two-minuters that challenge our very perceptions of reality, with images: Little elephants flopping around while being blasted with hoses, Charlie Chaplin's surreal critiques of Fordist industrialism, wormholes and super-massive black holes, shattered Detroit buildings from Hell. All of this, and all backed by her meditations on Dallas County becoming a "super-massive blue hole," sans Republicans, until the end of time. This is basically Terrence Malick's new movie.

Dan Adler, a former Disney executive running for Congress in L.A., has released the Jim Belushi SNL skit of campaign ads. In a bid to reach Asian constituents, Adler, a Democrat, saunters into a laundromat where a Korean lady screams, "I HAVE ISSUES! MEDICARE! I'M KOREAN!" Then, some unusually straightforward race-pandering:

The big mayoral race in North Bergen, New Jersey is coming to a close tomorrow. Are you a North Bergen resident who doesn't care who wins and will vote for whichever politician has the best TV commercial? Then longtime mayor Nick Sacco would be honored to have your vote! Watch youthful voters and old hippie ladies alike sing, "I don't know where you be from, but I be from North Bergen, son," while expressing their approval for Mayor Sacco. [via Tom Scocca]

Hey now wait a minute. Why would the National Republican Senatorial Committee produce a campaign ad supporting Barack Obama... unless... Oh, right, it's April 1 and everyone tells lies all day. Then again, this video appears to have been uploaded on March 31, so maybe the NRSC really does want Obama to win in 2012. That would be nuts. You can watch the ad and decide. Obama rides a unicorn over a rainbow and suggests boosting oil imports from Brazil, though not in the same shot.

Ex-Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty will be running for president soon, so this exciting new clip must be his "hype video." It's shot in ultra-widescreen and feels like one of those summer blockbusters where movie stars fight aliens. It's hilarious.

Apparently the "DC handlers" sent to help Nevada Senate candidate Sharron Angle wouldn't let her staff air this crappy ad. It shows old people scouring the desert for Social Security money. Was it too comically amateurish, or not racist enough?

Christine O'Donnell produced a fancy 30-minute campaign ad. Unfortunately, she forgot to buy air time in advance, and can't seem to get it on TV. Now she's tweeting angrily about how Delaware public access television is out to get her.

Hoping to prove that politics have always been dirty, Reason made these slick attack ads against Thomas Jefferson and James Madison based on actual statements made by their political opponents. Mostly, they prove that insults used to be way better.

It came down to the wire, but one group this election cycle has finally made an ad so shocking and negative that it can only air after 10 p.m.! Let's look at the Kentucky Democratic party's terrifying "Rand Paul STOMP."

California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman keeps talking about how great California was when she moved there 30 years ago. So her opponent, Jerry Brown, made a simple, devastating ad pointing out that he was governor 30 years ago. Watch below!

California gubernatorial candidate and average mom Meg Whitman has spent $140+ million of her own money to... still be trailing Jerry Brown a week before election day. And here, in her last commercial, she concedes that no one likes her.

GOProud is the gay Republican organization who loves it when Ann Coulter spits in their face. But at least we can relate to their political ads. Here's a Real Housewives-themed ad that casts Democrats as the Real Democrats of D.C.

It started this summer, a wave of demented campaign ads that fell into the laps of lazy political bloggers like manna from heaven. Many went viral. But now the genre is killing itself by trying way too hard.

You all can figure out the indiscreet implications of this ad from congressional candidate Sean Bielat, depicting an animated version of his opponent, gay Rep. Barney Frank, as, in TPM's words, a "hip-swerving disco queen." But it's still entertaining.