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Originally Posted by mykalberta
I am assuming you mean the Dion adds?
The first add is direct barage back and forth between Dion and Ignatieff.
I think it has alot more weight than people give it credit for. Its one thing to have a bruding American style add like the drum add which talk about gloom and doom, its another to take a mans words (partially in context) and use it against him.
Everyone thinks that Canada is above negative advertising, the truth is they arent and they are the only adds that have been shown to have a real affect on swaying votes.
MYK
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(Sorry for the lack of quoting in my prior post!)
My point isn't that because the ads are negative that they are bad. I agree that Canada is not above negative advertising (unfortunately). The thing here is that there is no election going on. Its just negative advertising for the sake of negative advertising. There was a poll I heard about on the radio shortly after the ads release and their conclusions were the same as what I'm referring to; the conservative supporters liked the ads, the liberals hated them, and the rest of the populus really couldn't care less.
To be honest, I didn't even see the ads air; I saw them on the news, or on the internet. If I wasn't interested in politics then chances are I wouldn't have watched them and wouldn't have cared. Sadly, this is the reality for most Canadians.