YouTube for the righteously indignant voter

As thrilled as we were to see BusinessWeek's Jon Fine run out a post with the unexpectedly delicious title of "The Silent Pain of 'America's Funniest Home Videos'" a few weeks back, we were even more excited to learn that The Washington Post and friends had created a video database of this year's political-campaign ads.

The Post's package is called Mixed Messages, and it's delightfully easy to navigate.

Find it here.

Of note:

• 30 ads are labeled as "attack" messages
• 9 ads feature a soldier or military imagery
• 6 ads reference Sept. 11
• 0 ads feature farm animals

Why no campaigns based on animal-related rhetoric? Well, folks, Rick Santorum has moved on. Why can't you?