What do you guys think of negative ads or mudslinging?

Question

I found a website that showed all the negative ads. I dont believe them but they're funny to watch. I hope people dont vote based on them! http://www.votingads.com

Answer 1

I don't like them. They are the campaign strategy of weak candidates, those that have nothing good to say about themselves.

Answer 2

I hate negative ads and mudslinging too. I hate low practices like push-polls (a famous example being when Bush and McCain were both running to be the Republican candidate, Rove did a phone survey of people in the southeast asking if they would vote for McCain if they knew he had an illegitimate black child. True story. McCain doesn't, by the way, but since the poll didn't say he *did* -- just said IF he did -- it wasn't illegal.

At least you're finding the ads funny. But yeah, some people vote based on them. Me, I would love to see a lot more debates.

Answer 3

I think it tells more about the person doing the mudslinging--that they can't win elections based on issues and ideas so they have to bring another person down. I don't like it to an excess, although some amount of mudslinging is expected. That's become the norm. When a candidate does more mudslinging than campaigning, there's cause for concern.

Answer 4

If a candidate has to resort to negative ads or mudslinging, I take that to mean that they must not have anything good to say about themselves. And most of the time the ads are wrong anyway.

Answer 5

I LOVE NEGATIVE ADS!!! How else would we find-out information on the candidates? Al Gore, John Kerry or George W. Bush certainly wouldn't tell you the things featured in their opponents' negative ads.

Answer 6

these videos are what the conservatives use to pick who they want to vote for. that's how easy they are.

and the mudslinging and negative ads were once illegal-but i believe bush 1 eliminated that law. seriously.

Answer 7

Hate them, especially when they distort the record. I'm a flaming liberal, but I dropped out of MoveOn when they started their "caught red-handed" commercials, because they were being extremely selective in their choice of evidence, to the point that the accusations were simply unfair. Best thing I've found is FactCheck.org, which checks the claims and reveals the distortions, regardless of what part of the political spectrum is doing the distorting. http://factcheck.org/

Answer 8

I think they work, that's why we see so many of them. I figure that the negative ads are the most accurate. Which is more likely to be true, the good things they say about themselves or the bad things they say about each other? I think it's the bad things.