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It's Going to Get Real Dirty; "Citizins United" Ruling Has Created A Monster
Topic Started: Nov 6 2011, 11:11 AM (579 Views)
tomdrobin
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The next election is a year away, and already the horrendously negative ads are hitting the airwaves. We have had a couple here in Michigan. One is an ad by Americans For Prosperity, making unfounded accussations that Obama is steering money to businesses like Solyndra as a trade for campaign contributions. And, another just as bad depicting politicians who voted against EPA clean air policy as feeding lead etc. to a baby sitting in a high chair.
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Mike
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I read today to expect Obama and the democrats to run the dirtiest and mo most negative campaign imaginable.

The article also said that there has never been a president re-elected with a 9% unemployment rate.
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I hate negative political ads. You guy started them, now they are infecting us. I much preferred baby kissing.
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Sea Dog
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I agree Paul,
the dirty politics of America is slowly creeping north.
fortunate, we do not have the same level of religious nuts,
so perhaps the effect will be minor.
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Thumper
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I don't see dirty politics simply as a Religeous nuts case. It is more pervase than that. I blame a good part of it on the likes of Limbaugh the father of political dirty tricks and hatred.
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Jim Miller
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telcoman
Nov 6 2011, 02:38 PM
I hate negative political ads. You guy started them, now they are infecting us. I much preferred baby kissing.
Uh, don't read them?
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ngc1514
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I think just on the Republican side it's going to get very bloody. Was it Perry's campaign staff that sicced the press onto Cain's transgressions?

It's gonna be a fun year!

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Uh, don't read them?


Pretty hard to avoid when our TV universe here is flooded with US Stations.
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Jim Miller
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Make sure you don't vote for any of our candidates that use them.
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Chris
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Yawn.

The Complete History of Dirty Politics: "Historian and author Joseph Cummins is no stranger to the dirty underside of the American democratic process. His latest book, Anything for a Vote: Dirty Tricks, Cheap Shots, and October Surprises, chronicles the campaign smears, attacks, and misdirections that have typified U.S. elections since George Washington‘s win in 1789. The upshot of Cummins’s book: campaigns are no dirtier now than they were in the past."
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