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DemocratSinceBirth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-11-07 03:20 PM
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Do You Post Every Negative Article You Can Find On Your Candidate's Opponents?
Edited on Sun Nov-11-07 03:20 PM by DemocratSinceBirth
I don't because I don't want to add to the flame wars...
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-11-07 03:21 PM
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1. I always seem to find them here first. n/t
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DemocratSinceBirth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-11-07 03:23 PM
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4. Ha
I go to MYDD... The atmosphere there is almost as toxic as the atmosphere here... Lots of negative stuff on all the Big Three...
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Yael Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-11-07 03:21 PM
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2. Don't believe I ever have
I've kicked a few though. :silly:
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-11-07 03:22 PM
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3. no need, they're already posted here in triplicate squared.
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truedelphi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-11-07 03:25 PM
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5. Nope. And I try and stay off some of the
Discussion wherein people are celebrating their candidate's victory.

I tend to jump in when someone posts something like "Now you will HAVE to switch to Hillary"
and their reasoning is not logical.

Because unless she buys me a house, and gives me $ 500,000 I am not SWITCHING to Hillary.

(On second thought, if she could go back in a time machine and undo her vote on the Iran resolution, AND change her industry funded mandate on National Health Care Insurance to a pro-working and middle class stance for Single Payer, then I'd switch to Hillary.

I mean, I guess, It could happen.)
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-11-07 03:25 PM
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6. No, because I don't have a candidate, and when I get one, I'd rather use the "Flies with honey"
technique. It works better. Takes longer (negative works faster, but turns people off eventually--there can be a bad blowback effect with it) but works better.
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LWolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-11-07 03:39 PM
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7. I don't find any negative articles, because
I don't look for any. Some of the opponents don't interest me in any way. There is literally nothing that they will say or do to earn my vote, so I don't waste time on them.

Others? I may read a few articles about them, whether positive and negative, but I make up my mind based on reading position papers and looking at past record. And current votes, of course.

I don't need to post negative ads about any of them; my candidate can hold his own, and better, with any of them.

Some of them are decent alternatives, if I have to settle for less.
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DemocratSinceBirth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-11-07 03:40 PM
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8. You Don't Have To Look For Them
You can find them just bey perusing political sites...
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LWolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-11-07 04:18 PM
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11. That would be the same as looking for them.
If I'm on a political site, I'm looking for topics and threads of interest.

The more campaigning going on, the fewer discussions of issues, which is, for me, the only reason to have a political discussion at all.
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Bitwit1234 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-11-07 04:10 PM
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9. One of the candidates supporters does
and if you go to some of the back pages....they post the same article about every three or four times. Yeah they do.
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Lucinda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-11-07 04:16 PM
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10. No...I've spent a lot of time trying to debunk, or give another POV
Edited on Sun Nov-11-07 04:17 PM by wlucinda
about what has been posted in those threads about all of them at one time or another. If it's accurate, I'll defend it though.

I really long for real substantive differences to talk about. But it doesn't happen much right now.
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MonkeyFunk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-11-07 04:29 PM
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12. Nope
don't think I've ever done it.
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NastyRiffraff Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-11-07 04:54 PM
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13. No. Most of those articles are
silly BS. Like I trust the media? NOT.

I'll listen to the candidates and make up my own mind, thank you.
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geek tragedy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-11-07 04:54 PM
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14. No, but if I were doing oppo research for the RNC I'd
bookmark this place.
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-11-07 05:26 PM
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15. It's just a certain sect of posters who do it.
Why they think that anyone would take them seriously knowing their hardcore partisan leanings is beyond me.All posts by these people are to taken with a grain of salt the size of Utah.
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Catchawave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-11-07 05:45 PM
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16. I think if people want to post negative comments about the oppo....
I respectfully request that they

TAKE DOWN THEIR BIG HONKING SIG LINES AND AVATARS SUPPORTING ANOTHER CANDIDATE.

It doesn' make me like your candiate any better. I'd rather you post nice things about them to help inform me, just in case my candidate has to drop out.

Thank you :hi:
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