Republicans Ad Against Murphy

I was looking at some of the advertisements that the National Republican Congressional Committee came out with for the New York race and this one definitely caught my eye. If you can you should definitely look at this YouTube clip because it illustrates a serious low blow to the Democratic candidate. One the key issues that is finding its way into the race is the decision over the death penalty for any circumstances and Murphy has been against it according to his beliefs, which to me seems fine if he is consistent in all circumstances. Yet, he has not been very careful in disclosing this affinity and it may end up costing him if an advertisement like this finds its way into the television commercial spots Tedisco starts promoting. In all honesty I do not really see how the death penalty should be such an important issue in the race given that it is not likely that either candidate will be doing anything with their stances while serving in Congress. New York has to establish its own guidelines and Congress probably will not get involved. Now, looking at it from a bigger ideological point of view the stance represents more than simply the death penalty and strikes to illustrate how polarized the candidates are in their belief system. Murphy's stance seems to be in line with a more liberal stance and not very centralized, whereas Tedisco seems to be a little bit more closer to the center and if voters realize this they may just give the election back to Tedisco and the Republicans.