Posted by Jost on October 29, 2006, at 21:43:07
In reply to Re: Political attack ads? lol » Dinah, posted by Racer on October 29, 2006, at 13:28:14
Attack ads work, though, in general.
Don't know why, since the attacks are rarely about positions on the issues.
At the moment, the Virginia senatorial race has turned into one of mostly irrelevant attacks-- for the moment, everyone is pondering what one candidate wrote in a novel 20 years ago, vs whether the other candidate was arrested for parking tickets ...or something more sinister.........who knows what????.....30 years ago.
I groping for an I statement here. I guess: I'd like to hear more about their positions at the present time-- well, unless the dirt "my" candidate throws is more effective than the dirt "the other" candidate does- and otherwise my candidate has no chance of winning....
then maybe well dirt is the way to go...
unless Dinah is more typical than they say--
I tend to vote issues, not character, myself-- unless the character part is related to an issue-- or is so heinous as to be beyond a lot of pales.
(I'm not a Virginia resident-- but I hung out there for a while-- and my SigO's Mother lives there.)
Jost
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