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Originally Posted by MarchHare
Negative attack ads certainly do sway voters in Canada, but not in the way you think they do. Who can forget the classic attack ad the Tories ran in 1993? Voter backlash over that ad is largely attributed as being the final nail that reduced their majority government to a mere two seats in parliament.
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Whoever posted that article is a complete douch and knows nothing about the 93 election.
That might have taken the final seat count from like 5 to 2 but it had nothing to do with with the final election result (majority etc).
An inept Kim Campbell and Joe Clark along with NAFTA, and the GST killed the Cons. Along with the inability for Mulruney to sign QC to the Constituion after 2 tries.
Add that with the rise of the Reform party in the West and the Bloc in QC killed the PC.
I agree that add was terrible but it wasnt because it was an attack add. It just happened to have the inadvertent (or perhaps desired) affect of zoning in on somones handicapt and as Canadians we had to act all high and mighty and say oh thats not good.
Dion has no physical handicap so there will be no problem. A Liberal style add commenting on Harper's weight would likely have the same affect as the 93 add but that again would have nothing to do with the add and more about the PM's weight and how over payed University grads now thing that being overweight is a disease (ITS NOT, QUIT EATING AND EXERCISE - sorry for the rant).
MYK