[extropy-chat] Re: Politics: US talks of suspending elections

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Harvey Newstrom <mail at harveynewstrom.com> wrote:
> Brian Lee writes: 
> 
> > The problem is that hate is not a motivator to go out and vote.
> 
> I thought that hate was the best motivator for voting, and that was
> why politicians prefer attack ads to issue ads.

Attack ads don't stew hate, they stew doubt. While lots of repubs hated
Clinton with a passion, Clinton's campaign portrayed Dole to
independents as a mean and bitter man. Attack ads don't play to party
extremes, they play to the undecided independents, building doubts
about the candidate they are attacking.

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Mike Lorrey
Chairman, Free Town Land Development
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                         -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
Blog: http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=Sadomikeyism


	
		
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