When or if this ad runs it is going to cost us a lot of hunters' votes, and probably farmers' votes, too.. Hunting from aircraft is a legal activity in Alaska, although it is not legal where I live. On the other hand, baiting bears with sweet rolls is legal here, but not there.
The immediate response from farmers will probably not be a welcome noise to the party powers either. Here in Henrietta Township, people who turn in the front feet of dead gophers get a bounty of $1.50 from the county and $.50 from the township. That differs from the bounty for wolves legs in what way?
It smells too much of PETA (not the People Eating Tasty Animals one, the other one). Yes, wolves do look a lot like our beloved doggies and react to being shot just as Fido would. The issue is not that the animals look and act in much the same way, it is one of being a responsible hunter. If the camera crew was just along to see wolves get shot by a guy with enough money to rent a plane and buy a really neat-o firearm, the crew should have asked up front whether the person in the plane was a good enough shot to deal an immediately killing blow to a moving animal while leaning out the door of an airborne Cessna.
The people whom I know and to whom I refer as "hunters" always try to make a killing shot. Many of us (me included) will pass up a shot at a fine trophy animal if there is a chance it will suffer a slow and painful death from an ill-advised or poorly placed shot.
The ad comes across as very anti-hunter, meaning it will cost a great deal in both Pennsylvania and Michigan because those vital states have incredible numbers of hunters, many of whom are those same blue-collar white males the Obama campaign so desperately needs. This ad is a bad idea.