How Effective Is Mr McCain's Negative Campaign?

[Siddhartha]

I was reading this NY Times article about a Poll Says Attacks Backfire on McCain.

Has Mr McCain's negative campaign affected how you or anyone you know are going to vote for POTUS?

Do you think Mr McCain would have benefitted more from putting his resources into discussing his policies and agenda?

 

[First]

Obama is polling higher now than at any point in his entire presidential run. So what do you think?

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: Evan Lieb
Obama is polling higher now than at any point in his entire presidential run. So what do you think?

LOL Faux Noise has McCain at 39%:shocked:

 

[Moonbeam]

I think it has been very effective. I know now that President Obama is the booger man.

 

[StageLeft]

Overall it's not helping but it's certainly convincing some.

 

[Bowfinger]

It's been very effective for me. It's turned McCain from someone I enthusiastically supported in 2000 into someone I will never consider voting for in 2008. Mission accomplished ... I guess.

Very sad to see what the man has become in his desperation to become POTUS.

 

[retrospooty]

When you do some amount of negative ads it helps...
When you do 100% negative ads, and dont give any positive reason to vote for your side, only reasons not to vote for the other it doesn't help.
When people started realizing Mccain was 100% neg and 0% pos, he went from 3-4 points down to 8-10 points down.

Well, that and wandering around like a senile dope, acting erratic while the economy was tanking I am sure didn't help either =)

 

[Moonbeam]

McSame's biggest negative ad was the one he placed on himself when he tried to elect the Noob from Nome as the next President.

 

[OrByte]

Its worked for my wife.

She is a republican who is going to vote Obama because according to her McCain is too nasty and Palin is too dumb, annoying, and inexperienced.

Actually she is more pissed off that McCain choose Palin and that tipped her over to the Obama side.

 

[Vic]

"Take it to Obama!"

 

[jonks]

You know it's bad when you lose Dennis Hopper.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...nnis-hop_n_134433.html

 

[ProfJohn]

McCain screwed up by not using the negative attacks to create a reason for people to not vote for Obama.

 

[OrByte]

Originally posted by: jonks
You know it's bad when you lose Dennis Hopper.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...nnis-hop_n_134433.html

off topic but...

has anyone asked Colin Powell who he is going to vote for?

edit: nvm its right there on your link.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Originally posted by: Bowfinger
It's been very effective for me. It's turned McCain from someone I enthusiastically supported in 2000 into someone I will never consider voting for in 2008. Mission accomplished ... I guess.

Very sad to see what the man has become in his desperation to become POTUS.

:thumbsup:

BTW, Daily Show was hitting on all the cylinders last night. The verbatim synchronizing between the "new stump speech" and the one at the convention was great. The they cut to a clip of the Fox News guy saying "Not the typical McCain stump speech." Good stuff.

 

[retrospooty]

Originally posted by: ProfJohn
McCain screwed up by not using the negative attacks to create a reason for people to not vote for Obama.

Your approval of negative ads is a ringing endorsement to NOT do it.

 

[Butterbean]

McCain spends more time throwing bouquets to Obama than impaling the Marxist ah heck the way he should be. This is why his base is so disgusted with him. McCain has Stockholm syndrome. Obama should be up by 15 in the real polls (not the CBS NY Times bullspit) but people know hes a weirdo. If McCain ran a hard campaign Obama would be under his feet. As it is Bill Krystal is calling for campaign to be fired and he was always one of Johnny Mac's biggest supporters

 

[Moonbeam]

Originally posted by: Butterbean
McCain spends more time throwing bouquets to Obama than impaling the Marxist ah heck the way he should be. This is why his base is so disgusted with him. McCain has Stockholm syndrome. Obama should be up by 15 in the real polls (not the CBS NY Times bullspit) but people know hes a weirdo. If McCain ran a hard campaign Obama would be under his feet. As it is Bill Krystal is calling for campaign to be fired and he was always one of Johnny Mac's biggest supporters

McCain is losing because people know "Crazies" like you support him. People want a President who thinks about more than how to protect little boys' anuses and all the natural questions about their sanity that raises.

 

[jpeyton]

Hahahaha

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Originally posted by: jpeyton
Hahahaha

Tha's the one. :beer:

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: jpeyton
Hahahaha

OMG the level of pwnage in that was just off the charts. I am not worthy!

 

[smashp]

Originally posted by: jpeyton
Hahahaha

"that is not a typical stump speech by john McCain"

LOLZ that was funny as crap.

Wait till his supporters finds out he recycles

 

[DrPizza]

HA!!!

edit: how uncharacteristic of me to make a 2 letter word response.

HA HA HA! at the video.
(that better?)

 

[TheSlamma]

I hear Obama is an Arab!!!

 

[XZeroII]

Here in WI, it's constant Obama attack ads. I don't know anything about the guy, but McCain is apparently evil.