My Response to Political Ads

Lilly Clouter

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• In general I think the attack ads can make a break a person campaign.  At times they can be useful and can win over a numerous amount of people.  They can bring up vague issues that have been hidden, or that the other candidate does not talk about.  This usually wins over voters and the candidate with the ad has gained a good lead.  Others times, they can be over aggressive, which gives the candidate a mean image and can turn voters away.  If the ad is filled with false accusations against the opponent the image for that candidate is now that they are a liar.  The sympathy vote can also change voters opinions.
• In most cases I think that political ads are mainly harmful to a candidates career because they usually  backfire.  This leads to having his or hers opponent end up getting more votes.  The political ads are also a very big risk to take.  I believe the risk is too big.  An election win should be about how the candidate worked and how they went out to the voters, not based on how good the ads on television were.
• I think these ads do play a part in today's election because the media is a huge part of people's life now and the ads are everywhere, which gives each candidate an easier way of getting the word out and what their plan is.

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• After watching the ads I felt torn between the two candidates.  When watching Barack Obama's ad against Mitt Romney I thought it was very mean and it took his words and used it against him in a cruel way.  In the ad against Obama it was not approved by Mitt Romney, which made me feel like he was not very involved with the advertising.  I felt bad when each candidate when they were attacked because it was done in a cruel way.  It should not be delivered that way.  When Obama approved the ad I felt disappointed in him because I thought with his background he would be more kind and not as harsh.
• For the ad against Mitt Romney I questioned it because it seemed as though a possible future President would not ask young adults to depend on their parents for money for college.  It seemed a little outrageous to be true.  For the ad against Obama I was halfway.  I think that I would need to know more about the President they were comparing him to in order to categorize it true or false.
• I did believe the candidate who shares my beliefs because I have more trust in that candidate and I think I know more about their past and what they want to achieve so the message is more clear to me.  I also thought his campaigning group's evidence was more direct and seemed like it would be more correct than his opponent in the election.

3.  I will read and comment on others blogs.