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Kimberly & Albrecht's Pittsburgh Blog

By Kimberly & Albrecht Powell, About.com Guides to Pittsburgh since 2000

Enough with the Negative Ads

Monday April 21, 2008
The airwaves have been absolutely full of "attack" ads over the past few days in advance of tomorrow's much discussed Pennsylvania primary election, most from Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Clinton and Obama are also both busy, of course, claiming that the other candidate is being "too negative." I don't know about you, but what I want to hear about from a candidate is what they are going to do for me, for Pittsburgh, for Pennsylvania, for our country... The problem is, however, that as much as voters may dislike them, negative campaign ads appear to work. Candidates, such as Beverly Purdue, running for the position of governor of North Carolina, take a big risk in their decision not to fight negative with negative.

Do negative ads affect your voting decisions? Do they work, or do they make you want to vote for the other candidate out of frustration? Or do they just make you want to skip out on voting in the primary all together? Click on "comments" below to share your thoughts on negative campaign ads.

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April 22, 2008 at 9:00 am
(1) Carol Briney says:

It is my opinion that negative ads hurt us all. I too want to hear what the candidate can do for me and this Country and more importantly how they are going to do it!

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