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FOR VOTERS: Do negative ads help or hinder?

All negative ads are totally appropriate13%13% - 7
They should be used sparingly11%11% - 6
Only if they're not personal attacks21%21% - 11
Should never be used46%46% - 24
Undecided7%7% - 4
Total: 52
2006-10-28 08:28:22
IRONCHEF
Member
+385|6747|Northern California

ATG wrote:

It brings up negative campaigning.
The Dems in America will fail until they run on what they are going to do, not on George Bush. The reason they only are running on a anti-Bush platform and not broadcasting what they are about?

Dems agenda;
raise taxes, abandon the Middle East to Pol Pot style killing fields, fund abortions, amnesty for illegal aliens, socialized medicine,  confiscation of firearms and subservience to the united nations.

     If those were my goals I'd probably be embarrassed too.
The dem ads I've seen don't all go towards bush.  And you are also forgetting to mention the tactics of the gop ads attacking dems as if they'd be weak on defense, tax us to death putting us into...ehem, "debt" and a host of other backwards attacks like the ones quoted in the OP article.

let's be fair.  I'm trying to.  but it's not like the dems have been running the show lately or have the 16% approval rating from their people.
2006-10-28 09:25:19
FrankieSpankie3388
Hockey Nut
+243|6787|Boston, MA
I hate negative ads. Here's how I see it:

If you have a negative ad, you are trying to make voters vote AGAINST your opponent.

If you have a positive ad, you are trying to make voters vote FOR you.

If you don't have enough confidence in yourself, you use negative ads. If you really want to show the bad side in the other people running, then talk about it in a debate.
2006-10-29 11:27:49
Turquoise
O Canada
+1,596|6662|North Carolina

ATG wrote:

It brings up negative campaigning.
The Dems in America will fail until they run on what they are going to do, not on George Bush. The reason they only are running on a anti-Bush platform and not broadcasting what they are about?

Dems agenda;
raise taxes, abandon the Middle East to Pol Pot style killing fields, fund abortions, amnesty for illegal aliens, socialized medicine,  confiscation of firearms and subservience to the united nations.

     If those were my goals I'd probably be embarrassed too.
While I agree with the first part of your post, the following is what I see the Republican agenda as....

Shift tax burden to working class, conquer the Middle East creating Pol Pot style killing fields, fund corporate welfare, enforce ineffective immigration controls, and promote the military industrial complex over the interests of the average citizen....

There's not much to like about either party.  Vote Libertarian....
2006-10-29 13:07:25
unnamednewbie13
Moderator
+2,053|7028|PNW

IRONCHEF wrote:

And its obvious that americans are trained to pick whoever won the mud slinging match.
I don't know about that, after the Democrats lost the Anybody But Bush campaign of 2004.
2006-10-29 16:05:12
Kmar
Truth is my Bitch
+5,695|6857|132 and Bush

Humans are programmed to love gossip. That's why these ads have been proven effective.
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