Post by: nate.45 on March 03, 2005, 10:18:52 PM
I did however have a thought of how sad it is that ads like that can be effective.
We hear all the time that negative ads are effective, but effective on whom? The uninformed, undecided voters
thats who and thats also the sad part. It is a proven fact that most elections are decided by the 20 or so precent undecided. Undecided,uninformed people, people that can be influenced by a 30 second negative political ad are going to decide our political future.If thats not sad I don't know what is.
Post by: drewtam on March 03, 2005, 10:18:52 PM
http://www.pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/archives2/024245.php
Exhibit A:
http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/still_ad/
Synopsis: Obama commercial mocking McCain for not knowing how to use a computer and email...
Exhibit B:
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=OTliMTNiZjg5ZDEwZWNiZDYwZWFjN2JlNjNjNjkxZmM=
Quote
McCain's severe war injuries prevent him from combing his hair, typing on a keyboard, or tying his shoes.
Obama campaign attack commercial...
EPIC FAIL!!!
Post by: Perd Hapley on March 03, 2005, 10:18:52 PM
Post by: roo_ster on March 03, 2005, 10:18:52 PM
Post by: agricola on March 03, 2005, 10:18:52 PM
Post by: Manedwolf on March 03, 2005, 10:18:52 PM
It's rather shocking.
Post by: GigaBuist on March 03, 2005, 10:18:52 PM
I am interested in the proven facts about the undecided. Where did you find this information?
Just look at the 2004 election's exit polls in the presidential race: http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/states/US/H/00/epolls.0.html
20% of the people surveyed made up their mind in the final month. 11% in the final week. 5% in the final -three days-.
Post by: wacki on March 03, 2005, 10:18:52 PM
Post by: Tallpine on March 03, 2005, 10:18:52 PM
Of the local ads on here for local offices, the Democrats are shamelessly lying. Like, blatant lies, like they don't even care. Just make it up and say the opponent said it or was responsible for it.
It's rather shocking.
It's rather shocking.
But not surprising ...
Post by: agricola on March 03, 2005, 10:18:52 PM
Why isn't McCain pounding Obama on this?
That did occur to me today as well. Certainly - judging by the unanimous takeup amongst elements of the pro-Obama camp - it seems that the next tactic is to charge McCain as being a liar of hitherto unparallelled size based on his totally false allegations that Obama did or say some stuff that merely just did or said.
Of course, some of these attacks are better than others:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/michaeltomasky/2008/sep/16/johnmccain.congress1?showallcomments=true