Kerry/Edwards attack ads: Has anyone seen them?

[xyboymil]

I am from Wisconsin, a major battle ground state in the race for the White House. While I am pleased to see a lot of Kerry/Edwards ads that are positive and that promote the reasons why they are the candidates to choose, I can't help but wonder why Kerry hasn't gone on the offense yet.

Bush is already and had been for a while airing negative ads about Kerry here in Wisconsin. Is Kerry planning to do the same?

There is SOO much ammo to use against Bush with all that had happened, including facts from Farenheit 9/11, etc. is anyone else anxious for the onslaught to begin against Bush?

Or is the Kerry/Edwards campaign waiting until September/October for them to begin? :shrug:

[supernova]

1. I haven't seen one. I'm in NC

I've seen only the "aren't they lovely candidates" commercials. Which is fine for now I think. After all, they aren't the nominees yet officially.

[calico1]

2. Maybe they are waiting til after the convention

but at least the Kerry campaign has some positive things to say. Bush seems to be almost all negative.

[Literate Tar Heel]

3. NC here too

and I've seen a lot of the one that Kerry doesn't even appear in (it's a clip of an Edwards speech where he's talking about Kerry -- the "spend 3 minutes with the men who served with him" bit) ... not surprising since Edwards polls much better here than Kerry and I think they're using Edwards to slowly introduce Kerry to the voters here

[bossfish]

4. The Kerry campaign hasn't put any out

to my knowledge.

MoveOn has a couple of doozies, though.

I want to slam this bastard hard.

[xyboymil]

5. Ditto Boss!

I am not a fan of negative campaigns as a whole, but I just can't stand seeing Bush's ads ripping Kerry and thus far, I see nothing in rebuttal.

I am hoping moveon.org spends more time/commercials on radio and TV here in WI. I think Kerry will end up winning here, but as everyone knows, it was a close race in 2000 (less then 6000 votes decided it for Gore).

[coloradodem2005]

7. Yeah.

But look where the negative campaigning has gotten Bush to. Nothing. Slipping further and further behind. Losing states that one would think he would be a shoe-in. Let Bush keep shooting himself in the foot.

[coloradodem2005]

6. I think the real question is...

Bush/Cheney positive ads: Has anyone seen THEM?


Kerry needs to go on the offensive eventually, but I think people are getting tired of negativity. I remember Clinton ads in 1992 that talked about what was wrong, but did not personally attack the elder Bush. He just talked about "bringing the country back." That may be the angle that Kerry is going from and needs to go from.