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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy Negative Ads Work Even Better Now
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/01/02/why_negative_ads_work_even_better_now.htmlWhy Negative Ads Work Even Better Now
Joe Klein notes that negative campaign ads "have been more effective and brutal this time because no one has to get up there at the end and say, 'I'm Mitt Romney and I approved this message.'"
"That line came in for a fair amount of mockery when the federal government began to require it a few cycles ago. But it worked. It became harder to for a candidate to have an ad accusing an opponent of being a mother-raper if he or she had to appear at the end and say, 'I approve this message.'..."
"This time, however, the vast majority of Iowans don't know that friends of Mitt Romney have put several billion dollars worth of ads up eviscerating Newt Gingrich... It's a coarsening of a system that is already too coarse. And we can thank the Supreme Court for that. It certainly doesn't bode well for the general election next fall."
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Why Negative Ads Work Even Better Now (Original Post)
babylonsister
Jan 2012
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Stuart G
(38,420 posts)1. Thanks..for posting..great thread..
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NewImproved Deal
(534 posts)3. Not too early...
...for Dems to start positioning and inoculation spots for November. The GOPs will always have deeper pockets.
SixthSense
(829 posts)4. There's another reason
politicians are scummier than ever and it's extremely easy to come up with severely damaging ads
whereas those same scummy politicians have a hard time coming up with something positive about themselves, or even being connected enough to the common man to know what people want to hear
izquierdista
(11,689 posts)5. Psssst!
I heard his brother was a Communist and he made all his money from gay pornography.