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Originally Posted by belsarius
Except this is such a cop out. One side gets held to a higher standard of decorum, and it is apparently their own fault.
Every UCP ad was an attack ad on the NDP as well. The NDP didn't have any monopoly on attacking. And as for policy, major UCP points like the pension and provincial police force were ignored by the Premier, yet she will stand there and say she now has a mandate for those policies.
Its like saying that its ok for the UCP to play in the dirt, but if the NDP do it then I won't support them.
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“But THEY did it TOO” isn’t an argument.
You seem to think the taking the high ground is weak and ineffective, and scrapping in the mud like the UCP is effective. As Table 5 remarked, if you want to appeal to sober moderates, then you probably want to campaign as a sober moderate rather than getting down in the mud pit.
And as the CBC story I linked to pointed out, the attack adds
were a bad strategy for the NDP. They were ineffective and turned off voters. It might have cost them the election.
Most voters aren’t anywhere near as invested in politics as the people who post here are. They don’t feel strongly about one party or another. And those are the people you need to persuade to vote for you if you want to defeat an incumbent government. The haters are already locked in.