PACs

Pizza Hut wants you to vote:

Call me cynical, and maybe I'm reading way too much into this, but I found the way that the first student mocks the "change" message we're seeing this election cycle a little disturbing. Why would you mock the #1 reason young people are turning out?

Equally strange was the follow-up line "I could use more change in my pocket." My first response to that was to ask if that was code for "we need more tax cuts."

And let's face it, to use a bad pun, that commercial is totally cheesy. It feels like a half-hearted attempt if anything.

So I went on Open Secrets and did a little digging. Pizza Hut is owned by Yum! Brands, Inc. Yum! Brands also happens to have a PAC of the same name. Here's what their donations look like from the last 4 cycles:

That's a whole lot more money going to Republicans than to Democrats. Even now, when a Democratic victory looks pretty good, they're only barely hedging their bets, and Republicans are still getting more money.

Does Pizza Hut really want you to vote? Or do they want you to vote Republican? Or would they rather you just stay home and eat pizza?

The ads are on the air in Nevada and South Carolina.