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Originally Posted by Radii
There are a couple running here in North Carolina that are basically Obama laying out bullet points for what he wants to accomplish, obviously at a super high 1 minute level, without any negative mentions. Of course, there are more attack ads than anything else, and Obama has the money to do both, where McCain probably doesn't. In casual TV viewing, the RNC definitely seems to be desperate, attacking everything they can think of, hoping something sticks with a voter on election day. Of course, if the polls are to be believed, they are desperate at this point.
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Yeah, I would believe that the RNC probably has just as many negative ads as the Democrats do. We just don't get many of them up here airtime wise. I just reject the spin that people have that one side is being less negative than the other. From my independent perspective both sides were completely willing to do whatever they needed ad-wise to try to win, but because of an early lead the Democrats have had less of a need to , or felt less of a need to. If the tables were reversed, I would fully expect much nastier ads than the current ones that we see.
I wish we got some of the ads for Obama that you have in NC though, they must feel no need to try to "sell" Obama to anyone in Massachusetts since this state is so heavily liberal, so everything is oriented around trying to remind us why McCain is bad rather than why Obama is good.