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Do negative campaign ads work with YOU?

Are negative campaign ads effective with YOU?

  • Yes. Negative campaign ads can cause me to vote against the candidate negatively portrayed

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • No. Negative campaign ads cannot cause me to vote against the candidate portrayed.

    Votes: 10 55.6%

  • I vote against the candidate running negative campaign ads.

    Votes: 2 11.1%

  • I am only affected by negative campaign ads if they are comeplely honest.

    Votes: 6 33.3%
  • Total voters
    18
Smeagol said:
Maybe I'm different but negative campaign ads bother me. Many are based in half truths and deception and in those cases I'm actually offended concluding the candidate running them thinks I'm too stupid to spot dishonesty when directed at me. I realize there are strong supporters of any candidate or party and I understand those people cheer the negative campaign ads bashing their guy's opponents but I thought ads were designed to persuade undecided voters or get people to change their minds.

There's a local ad running right now attempting to unseat an incumbent. The incumbent promised to not raise taxes. The ad claims he broke his pledge because taxes went up. Truth: the candidate did not raise taxes. They were based on property values and because property values went up, so did property taxes. If the cost of gas goes up, so will the embedded gas tax. This doesn't mean the government "raised" gas taxes.
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The poll is missing a question. Negative adds work with some people. Personally, I don't believe anything in any political add, I only listen for policy positions and look for a candidate who says what I want to hear. Then, if they get elected, they go to Washington and disappoint me.
 
A question such as this should have its answer derived from data. I'm not sure what kind of conclusion you're looking for from this poll.
 
Smeagol said:
Maybe I'm different but negative campaign ads bother me. Many are based in half truths and deception and in those cases I'm actually offended concluding the candidate running them thinks I'm too stupid to spot dishonesty when directed at me. I realize there are strong supporters of any candidate or party and I understand those people cheer the negative campaign ads bashing their guy's opponents but I thought ads were designed to persuade undecided voters or get people to change their minds.

There's a local ad running right now attempting to unseat an incumbent. The incumbent promised to not raise taxes. The ad claims he broke his pledge because taxes went up. Truth: the candidate did not raise taxes. They were based on property values and because property values went up, so did property taxes. If the cost of gas goes up, so will the embedded gas tax. This doesn't mean the government "raised" gas taxes.
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Most people stay true to their party regardless of negative ads.
 
radcen said:
In that respect I agree. Today information travels faster and the science or art behind it has more impact.
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It's not just that though. You have to understand that the wide array of information that you could potentially be bombarded with on a daily basis can become overwhelming. At some point, I think at a point it just becomes like a tidal wave that is more likely to wash over you. Same with negative ads now there being worked into online sphere, they just seem to blur over.
 
Carleen said:
Most people stay true to their party regardless of negative ads.
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If there is an effect, it's going to be on the third of the country that aren't aligned I would agree.
 
No ads of any kind work on me, I entirely ignore all advertisements of all kinds, all the time.
 
Smeagol said:
Maybe I'm different but negative campaign ads bother me. Many are based in half truths and deception and in those cases I'm actually offended concluding the candidate running them thinks I'm too stupid to spot dishonesty when directed at me. I realize there are strong supporters of any candidate or party and I understand those people cheer the negative campaign ads bashing their guy's opponents but I thought ads were designed to persuade undecided voters or get people to change their minds.

There's a local ad running right now attempting to unseat an incumbent. The incumbent promised to not raise taxes. The ad claims he broke his pledge because taxes went up. Truth: the candidate did not raise taxes. They were based on property values and because property values went up, so did property taxes. If the cost of gas goes up, so will the embedded gas tax. This doesn't mean the government "raised" gas taxes.
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Most campaign ads are for morons who are too stupid or lazy to go research a candidate themselves. Unless a candidate is not well known there is no reason to go by what a tv ad says.
 
In my opinion negative ads fire up the base and they work on the sheep that either weren't going to vote or were going to vote the same way without the ad anyway.
For a very popular example even a person like me saw was when that old lady at the McCain rally said Obama is an Arab and even McCain had to correct her. Those are the people negative ads work on. That lady wasn't going to vote or she was going to vote for McCain anyway.
 
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