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What type of ads effect you the most?

What ads are most effective? For you? In general

  • Positive Adds (you)

    Votes: 2 33.3%
  • Negative Adds (you)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Candidate speeking (you)

    Votes: 3 50.0%
  • Random individuals speeking (you)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Numbers (you)

    Votes: 2 33.3%
  • Positive Adds (general)

    Votes: 1 16.7%
  • Negative Adds (general)

    Votes: 2 33.3%
  • Candidate speeking (genral)

    Votes: 2 33.3%
  • Random individuals speeking

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Numbers (genral)

    Votes: 1 16.7%

  • Total voters
    6

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What type of adds affects you the most? What adds do you think are the most effective in public.

Well everyone says you need to run attack adds left and right. Thing is here in VA Tim Kaine runs 80% positive adds while George Allan runs 100% negative adds while bearly even mentioning himself. Yet Kaine's lead keeps growing. I personally think "negative adds are more effective" is a myth. It really depends on the validity and relevence of the add and the candidate.

A negative add thats spot on can be very effective, a negative add full of twisted facts and lies tend to backfire.


I personally also don't like random idividuals on adds especially when they don't talk about facts and specifics. Such as the Contraception add on Obama's side and the Small buisness add (with the lady and the bald old man) for Romney.
 
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What type of adds affects you the most? What adds do you think are the most effective in public.

Well everyone says you need to run attack adds left and right. Thing is here in VA Tim Kaine runs 80% positive adds while George Allan runs 100% negative adds while bearly even mentioning himself. Yet Kaine's lead keeps growing. I personally think "negative adds are more effective" is a myth. It really depends on the validity and relevence of the add and the candidate.

A negative add thats spot on can be very effective, a negative add full of twisted facts and lies tend to backfire.

Ads rarely affect me because I change the channel whenever they come on, and on the rare occasion I see one, I'm predisposed to disbelieve everything it says. I do think negative ads are more effective, though. It's hard to raise your own favorability ratings, but it's not that hard to tear down your opponent's.
 
Ads rarely affect me because I change the channel whenever they come on, and on the rare occasion I see one, I'm predisposed to disbelieve everything it says. I do think negative ads are more effective, though. It's hard to raise your own favorability ratings, but it's not that hard to tear down your opponent's.

Some adds I find effective and true, but ya most of them are just Rhetoric and BS with irrelevent/misleading numbers.

Best thing to do is put in some time and look at their records on legislation and national statistics from factual sources.

One side says 300,000 Jobs lost every month another say 400,000 Jobs created every month. No one talks about net job gain/loss.
 
I may watch tv once a week and it's usually movies on Netflix, Amazon or Vudu.
I don't think I've seen a political ad lately and I'm quite glad, they're obnoxious.....all of them.

Whenever I do see one, whether or not I support the person running it, my bull**** detectors bleeps and boops.
 
I may watch tv once a week and it's usually movies on Netflix, Amazon or Vudu.
I don't think I've seen a political ad lately and I'm quite glad, they're obnoxious.....all of them.

Whenever I do see one, whether or not I support the person running it, my bull**** detectors bleeps and boops.

none of them. They all suck.
 
What type of adds affects you the most? What adds do you think are the most effective in public.

Well everyone says you need to run attack adds left and right. Thing is here in VA Tim Kaine runs 80% positive adds while George Allan runs 100% negative adds while bearly even mentioning himself. Yet Kaine's lead keeps growing. I personally think "negative adds are more effective" is a myth. It really depends on the validity and relevence of the add and the candidate.

A negative add thats spot on can be very effective, a negative add full of twisted facts and lies tend to backfire.


I personally also don't like random idividuals on adds especially when they don't talk about facts and specifics. Such as the Contraception add on Obama's side and the Small buisness add (with the lady and the bald old man) for Romney.


If you let a ad dictate or influence who you are going to vote for then you are a ****en moron. Seeing how we have the internet you can practically thoroughly research any well known presidential candidate or other political candidate.
 
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Ads are for the simple minded, who have no way to think freely.
 
I didnt answer because I dont know how?

for me personally no ads effect my voting, some inspire me to fact check things and make sure im informed but the ad itself doesnt do anything


in general im not sure either. the majority of people I know that talk about ads feel the same way I do, and then the small percentage of people that seem inspired by ads are typically biased people that were or were not going to vote a certain way anyway.

lastly id guess the uninformed people are effected by all the ads, i dont know
 
the ads have little effect on my voting, as i do my own research and know who i'm voting for going into the election.

however, excessively negative ads can turn me off enough in certain races that i'd consider not voting for either candidate. the mind-numbingly negative and often false superpac ads really get on my nerves.

if i were running myself, i couldn't possibly do that, and i would probably demand that superpacs run no negative ads. this might very well result in my loss, but i couldn't stand to be associated with that kind of garbage.
 
I like hearing the candidates talk more then anything else, because it is at least the most primary source that is in any add. Everything else can be spun. Not that the candidate speaking isn't spinning, it's at least him saying it.

I think most people react to negative adds, because by personal experience whenever I talk to someone in real life about a candidate they always repeat the negative things that are said in the negative ads and that is how they form their opinions depending on what party they consider they are a part of... leading to very little constructive discussion.
 
the ads have little effect on my voting, as i do my own research and know who i'm voting for going into the election.

however, excessively negative ads can turn me off enough in certain races that i'd consider not voting for either candidate. the mind-numbingly negative and often false superpac ads really get on my nerves.

if i were running myself, i couldn't possibly do that, and i would probably demand that superpacs run no negative ads. this might very well result in my loss, but i couldn't stand to be associated with that kind of garbage.

I am glad you are voting for obama.
 
They have very little effect because there is usually a clear choice on who is or isn't the social liberal on the ballot, whoever they are I vote for them. In the rare case you have a socially conservative democrat and a social conservative republican I vote 3rd party.

Btw, as a former VA resident I hope Kaine wins it.

Edit: also I don't own a tv, so I really don't see many ads, they don't air them on NPR or Cspan radio either.
 
Ya I agree with the responses here.

Negative adds are needed but I think positive add should out number negative adds or else you turn people off.

I also agree the internet is a much better source to find more facts and see more opinions.

"adds are targeted for idiots" - ya think? There's a lot of idiots out there though.
 
I prefer print ads. Putting in writing with concrete proof that it is said matters to me more.
 
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