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Originally posted by Rekna
I think mudslinging should be outlawed in fact i wish campaigned was restricted like TV comercials where you can't mention competeing products in the US (or at least i think). That way polititions could only talk about themselfs and people would decide what they liked better. The only time they could actually bring up their opponates would be in the debates.
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It's a nice idea, but consider if there was a convicted child molester running for office who recently held a rally where he advocated grinding up "excess" children to be sold as food to the mentally handicapped because "they can't tell the difference anyway."
Sure that's an extreme example, but if you were running against this piece of human slime wouldn't you want your constituents to know about it? And, as a voter, wouldn't you want to know if one of the candidates endorsed baby eating?
And less extreme, wouldn't you want to know if someone running for your local county commission had only moved in to your county two months ago?
Negative ads, as disheartening as many of them are, have their place.