The third reason to like the election results

After a long campaign in which truth seemed to be the first casualty, in the end a campaign ad that boldly lied about General Motors’ and Chrysler’s overseas production plans may have been Mitt Romney’s downfall in all-important Ohio.

The radio and TV ads claimed falsely that Chrysler was shipping Jeep assembly jobs to China and that GM was taking advantage of its bailout money to shift production to China.

Fact-checkers gave the GOP nominee a “pants on fire” rating for the ad. Top executives at Chrysler and GM took the unusual step of reluctantly inserting themselves into the campaign by denouncing the ads as nonsense.

Yet, the Romney camp continued to put their spin on the issue and argue that, by technicality, the ads were basically sorta true.

The voters didn’t buy it.

Maybe in future election cycles candidates who blatantly lie will be accused of “pulling a Romney.”