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| | Negative Campaigning in the Georgia 2002 Elections |
 | | Negative campaigning is a valuable tool used to undermine the overwhelming support of Democratic incumbents who suffocated Republican attempts at election for decades. | | | Analyzing the effects of negative attack advertising in Georgia elections requires examining public opinion, campaign rhetoric, and the political process during elections. | | | The 2002 elections in Georgia also show the effectiveness of negative campaigning for undermining the support of formidable Democratic incumbents and other opponents. |
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http://www.uga.edu/juro/2004/sheriff1.htm
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| | Going Negative |
| | Fifteen states, with 62 percent of the voting-age population, had full-blown negative campaigns: Arkansas, California (two Senate seats), Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Washington. | | | In the positive Senate races in 1992, 3.3 percent of those who voted for president did not vote for senator. | | | The hostility of the 1992 Senate campaigns drained the electorate as much as it wore down the opposition. |
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http://pcl.stanford.edu/common/docs/research/iyengar/1996/goingneg.html
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| | Negative Campaigning: Advice for Attacker and Attackee - by William S. Bike - The Heartland Institute |
| | It can cause voters to wonder if your candidate has some of the same negatives his or her opponent does and can create a negative campaign opening for your candidate's opponent. | | | President Truman's Secretary of State, Dean Acheson, had once been dumped from an economic advisory post by President Roosevelt. | | | Although he did not win, Illinois Lieutenant Governor Bob Kustra gained some points in his 1996 U.S. Senate primary against State Senator Al Salvi by depicting Salvi, a personal-injury attorney, in humorous commercials showing a lawyer literally chasing an ambulance. |
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http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=769
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| | Negative campaigning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Some strategists say that an effect of negative campaigning is that while it motivates the base of support it can alienate centrist and undecided voters from the political process, reducing voter turnout and radicalizing politics. | | | Martin Wattenberg and Craig Brians, of the University of California, Irvine, considered in their study whether negative campaigning mobilizes or alienates voters. | | | COINTELPRO campaign by the FBI against civil rights activists in the US from 1956 to 1970. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_campaigning
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| | Online NewsHour: Going Negative -- February 22, 2000 |
| | If this negativity continues, Republicans have to be worried are we alienating those people that seem to be attracted to McCain's message -- Democrats, younger voters, enough voters, veterans who have participated in Republican primaries for the first time. | | | It's below-the-belt negative campaigning that is troublesome and that is so discouraging to voters. | | | They discourage voters, they make the voter feel manipulated and belittled and it leaves the person who wins with an inability to really unify the country behind important national goals. |
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http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/election/jan-june00/negative_2-22.html
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| | BBC NEWS Politics Election 2005 Election fight getting personal |
| | Mr Blair claimed the policy would take about £2bn out of the state school system and said Tory plans to allow all schools to choose pupils by ability were "deeply unfair". | | | Why campaigning is becoming more and more negative | | | There was much more to be done, said Mr Blair, arguing school discipline, another key Tory campaign theme, was vital. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/vote_2005/frontpage/4487209.stm
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| | Three Cheers for Negative Campaigning By William Saletan |
| | William Saletan is Slate's national correspondent and author of Bearing Right: How Conservatives Won the Abortion War. | | | Three Cheers for Negative Campaigning By William Saletan | | | Now he believes he can be president." But what's wrong with "alienating" voters from bad programs and bad candidates? |
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http://www.slate.com/id/56628
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| | Negative Campaigning in the Georgia 2002 Elections |
| | Most mistakes Barnes made occurred during his time as governor and not during his campaign because he allowed for truth in several of Perdue’s negative advertisements. | | | The content and opinions expressed on this Web page do not necessarily reflect the views of nor are they endorsed by the University of Georgia or the University System of Georgia. | | | However, the U.S. Supreme Court finds constitutional recent legislation, the Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act (BCRA), that includes a provision within the law entitled “Stand by your Ad” (Price, 2003). |
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http://www.uga.edu/juro/2004/sheriff4.htm
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| | Opinion: McCollum for GOP |
| | The Times originally recommended former U.S. Housing Secretary Mel Martinez to Republican voters in Tuesday's U.S. Senate primary, but that was before Martinez took his campaign into the gutter with hateful and dishonest attacks on his strongest opponent, former U.S. Rep. Bill McCollum. | | | Instead, he is an ambitious politician who has resorted to unprincipled tactics to get elected. | | | The Times is not willing to be associated with bigotry. |
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http://www.sptimes.com/2004/08/30/Opinion/McCollum_for_GOP.shtml
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| | Two cheers for negative campaigning |
| | This is yet another plus since that means elections aren’t as likely to be decided by unenthusiastic voters with little knowledge of the issues or where the candidates stand on them. | | | It also brought the California governor to within an eyelash of defeating the incumbent president. | | | The basis for political speech is to shape public policy, and influencing election results is part of that. |
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1200189/posts
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| | Negative campaigning and electoral competition |
| | Finally, the overall fraction of negative campaigning in open elections and in elections with an incumbent is the same. | | | Positive campaigning, instead, refers to all the advertisements and speeches from one candidate that are related to his or her personal and political attributes. | | | Negative campaigning is the general term that includes all the advertisements and speeches from one candidate that refer to the opponent's policy and personal attributes. |
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http://repository.upenn.edu/dissertations/AAI3138042
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| | Negative Campaigning Sucks |
| | While Dole, Buchanan, Larry, Moe, Curly, and the other Republican candidates have run negative commercial after negative commercial, Lamar has run an uplifting, positive, and unifying campaign, as embodied by his recent slogan of "Lamar Alexander. | | | Can you afford not to vote for Buchanan?" | | | I don't mean to be too cruel to Lamar. |
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http://joelavin.com/campaign.html
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| | CNN.com - Roemer lashes out in DNC chairman race - Jan 16, 2005 |
| | Roemer's position against abortion rights was criticized last week by some party members. | | | Should abortion rights be an issue when Democrats choose their new party chairman? | | | LOUIS, Missouri (CNN) -- The campaign for Democratic chairman turned contentious over the weekend when Tim Roemer lashed out at criticism of his views on abortion and accused opponents of negative campaigning. |
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http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/01/16/roemer.dnc
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| | Democratic Underground Forums - Candidate substitution, negative campaigning, and VOTER TURNOUT |
| | But if late candidate substitutions destroy the tainted fruit of negative campaigning, and negative campaigning depresses turnout, and depressed voter turnout generally works in favor of Republicans, NJ Democrats may have stumbled upon an important tool for Democrats' use in future elections all over the country. | | | Negative campaigning was one of the chief culprits we identified. | | | Messages posted on the Democratic Underground Discussion Forums are the opinions of the individuals who post them, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Democratic Underground, LLC. |
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/duforum/DCForumID60/8509.html
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| | WorldNetDaily: The myth of negative campaigning |
| | As a journalist and voter, I'm not so interested in whether campaigning is positive or negative. | | | Some people think negative campaigning is when a candidate criticizes his opponent rather than focusing exclusively on the positive reasons voters should support him. | | | That should be a central responsibility of the news media during an important political campaign. |
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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=15028
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| | Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Election |
| | An example of this kind of structural bias was the 2004 re-election of Russian president Vladimir Putin, in which the state controlled media consistently supported his election run, consistently condemned his opponents, provided virtually unlimited free advertising to Putin's campaign, and barred attempts by his opponents to run campaign advertisements. | | | For this reason, many countries ensure equal air time to election ads from all sizeable parties and have systems that help pay for election advertising. | | | Other states (e.g., the United Kingdom) only set maximum time in office, and the executive decides exactly when within that limit it will actually go to the polls. |
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http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Election
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| | From Bush, Unprecedented Negativity (washingtonpost.com) |
| | Incumbent presidents often prefer to run on their records in office, juxtaposing upbeat messages with negative shots at their opponents, as Bill Clinton did in 1996. | | | And because the Bush campaign has spent an unprecedented sum on advertising at this early stage of the campaign, "the average voter is getting a much more negative impression," said Ken Goldstein, who tracks political advertising at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. | | | This campaign is persistent and methodical, and it often revs up on Monday mornings with the strategically timed release of ads or damaging attacks on Kerry, including questioning medical and service records in Vietnam and his involvement in the peace movement afterward. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3222-2004May30_2.html
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| | Voter June 05 |
| | Their purpose is negative advertising, designed to change opinions by smearing an opponent, while maintaining the guise of offering information to the voter. | | | Some states have passed laws against push polling; Connecticut will be studying the issue. | | | Governor Rell’s proposal for campaign finance reform. This includes public funding of campaigns for state offices along with strict limits on the political contributions from PACs, state contractors, and lobbyists. |
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http://www.wiltonlwv.org/index_files/junevoter.htm
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| | Negative Campaigning |
| | "Negative campaign adds turn off voters," said Walden. | | | Congressman Walden and Senator Wyden Unveil Bipartisan Bill To Combat Negative Campaigning | | | WASHINGTON, DC— Political candidates would be held accountable for negative political campaign advertisements under legislation introduced today by Congressman Greg Walden (R-Ore.) and U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.). |
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| | Porphyrogenitus: On Negative Campaigning |
| | "What?" you're saying, "Everybody knows that the Republicans run dirty, negative campaigns to drag down their opponents by using wedge issues to divide voters from the Democrat they should vote for" | | | For the last several months, the Democratic candidates have been saying scathing things about President Bush and Republicans in general. | | | Making no claim that it is somehow "wrong" to draw contrasts with your opponent or point out facts about their political positions/history that voters won't like, I hereby assert that the Democrats, not the Republicans, are superior at negative campaigns. |
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| | Going Negative PopMatters Television Feature |
| | the widespread use of negative ads has the potential to lead to lower voter turn-out | | | With the proliferation of internet campaigning, voters can check out candidate and political party sites, to read position papers for themselves. | | | Early poll numbers indicate that this year's presidential campaign will be another squeaker. |
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http://www.popmatters.com/tv/features/040301-goingnegative.shtml
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| | Minnesota Politics: Negative campaigning |
| | Lynne Osterman, one of the Republicans who lost, said "In my book, I consider negative campaigning cheating. | | | The votes Osterman and other Republicans took in supporting a far-right agenda are extremely relevant. | | | Reports so far indicate that the House DFL Caucus spent far more than the Republicans on these independent campaign pieces, many of which were "negative." Predictably, the losers decried this tactic. |
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http://minnpolitics.blogspot.com/2004/12/negative-campaigning.html
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| | McCain calls for end to negative campaigning - January 5, 2000 |
| | GOP to act against OSHA rule for home workers | | | MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (CNN) -- Calling for a renewal of citizenship, Republican presidential candidate John McCain urged Wednesday his fellow candidates to lead by example in refraining from negative campaigning. | | | McCain has billed his campaign as a challenge to the status quo and an attack on the special interests. |
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http://edition.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/01/05/mccain.citizen
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| | LWV |
| | Vote for candidates who are represented by campaigns which do not mislead voters or appeal to fear or prejudice; campaigns which are built on issues, not accusations; substance, not sound bites. | | | If you are tired of negative political campaign advertising, use the power of your vote for positive change. | | | VOTE & ENCOURAGE others to vote for candidates whose campaigns create confidence in our system of government and inspire all of us to register and vote. |
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| | From Bush, Unprecedented Negativity (washingtonpost.com) |
| | Scholars and political strategists say the ferocious Bush assault on Kerry this spring has been extraordinary, both for the volume of attacks and for the liberties the president and his campaign have taken with the facts. | | | Last Monday in Little Rock, Vice President Cheney said Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kerry "has questioned whether the war on terror is really a war at all" and said the senator from Massachusetts "promised to repeal most of the Bush tax cuts within his first 100 days in office." | | | Kerry has run 13,336 negative ads -- or 27 percent of his total. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3222-2004May30.html
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| | Townhall.com :: Columns :: Truth, open exchange not 'negative campaigning' by David Limbaugh - Mar 9, 2004 |
| | My educated guess is that one of Senator Kerry's chief campaign strategies will be to use "negative campaigning" as both a sword and a shield. | | | But in recent times, the political Left, which resides in the Democratic Party, has conducted a systematic assault on political speech, from politically correct speech codes on college campuses to campaign finance "reforms," to efforts to re-institute the Fairness Doctrine for radio broadcasting. | | | While shamelessly distorting the president's record through truly dirty campaigning, he'll falsely charge the Bush team of negative campaigning to obscure his own problematic record. |
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http://www.townhall.com/columnists/davidlimbaugh/dl20040309.shtml
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| | Las Vegas Mercury: Editor's Note: The Tao of negative campaigning |
| | Sadly, his campaign strategy is nasty and misleading right off the bat. | | | Jerry Tao's picture on his campaign flier suggests a clean-cut, white-collar, upstanding fellow. | | | But, sadly, his campaign strategy is nasty and misleading right off the bat. |
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http://www.lasvegasmercury.com/2003/MERC-Dec-11-Thu-2003/22754082.html
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| | Truth in Politics |
| | This non-profit entity is for the sole purpose of providing campaign fairness and will be held harmless and without legal consequence regarding any matter. | | | TiPs is not affiliated, endorsed or approved by any political candidate, party or affiliation. | | | Yes, we know the campaign "experts" tell us that negative campaigning in the end of a campaign can get a few more votes. |
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| | The Payson Roundup: Negative campaigning was more than enough |
| | In the recent political campaign, there seemed to be no end of campaigning against a candidate, rather than campaigning for a candidate. | | | Both presidential candidates and their supporters were guilty of emphasizing their opponents' negative qualities rather than leading discourse about their preferred candidate's positive qualities. | | | Castleman's letters had been to tell the community why we should vote for his preferred candidate, it would have been a loss to have them overlooked. |
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| | SSRN-Informative Positive and Negative Campaigning by Mattias Polborn, david yi |
| | Each candidate can either lead a positive campaign (interpreted as issue-focused, indicating his high quality) or a negative campaign, by revealing detrimental information about his competitor. | | | This paper develops a theoretical model of informative campaigning, both positive and negative. | | | We argue that some information on a candidate can be transmitted more efficiently by his opponents and that negative campaigning, on average, facilitates a more informed choice by the electorate. |
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http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=526462
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| | Youth04 Forum Negative Campaigning - Preferences |
| | Negative Campaigning in the Race for President Forum | | | With seven months until the election, Bush and Kerry have begun to use negative campaign strategies. | | | How does negative campaigning affect your participation in the election process? |
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http://www.youth04.org/cgi-bin/negative.pl?noframes;reconfigure
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| | National Catholic Reporter: Electing a new pope April 11, 2005 |
| | This sort of murmuring is part of the inevitable backdrop to a campaign season, and one that’s more analogous to British rather than American politics &; the race lasts only a couple of weeks, instead of almost three years. | | | Indeed, people launch these rumors for the same reason that political advisors in the United States craft attack ads – because, like it or not, sometimes negative campaigning works. | | | If you want proof of the point, consider the various forms of “negative campaigning” that have been floating through the Roman air in recent days: |
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http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/update/conclave/pt041505c.htm
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| | Negative Campaigning????? : Fool Moon |
| | I have yet to see a Republican pundit or supporter decry Kerry as evil. | | | You know, I was watching the news and I saw a Democratic pundit pontificating about how this was the most negative campaign they had ever seen and that the source of the negativity was the Bush campaign. | | | Or at least, I do not see the Bush campaign as being the most negative, especially not the most negative campaign ever... |
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http://foolmoon.com/showflat.php?Number=189743
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| | Arianna Online Forums - Negative Campaigning |
| | I'd say something about the Bush pot calling the Kerry kettle black, but I haven't visited JFK's website to see if he has accused his opponent of engaging in the negative campaigning that his opponent has engaged in in an effort to show that his opponent is engaging in negative campaigning. | | | So, Kerry is running a negative campaign, which I assume makes him a bad person, and oh-by-the-way, did you know he made false promises and engaged in job-losing double talk? | | | I gave up on trying to crast an image, but I did notice the titles of the "Recent Blog Entries" while I was there: |
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| | Wacky Wikipedia csmonitor.com |
| | Meanwhile, those living outside Canada may be surprised and amused (as we were at the time) to learn that in 2003, an official provincial Conservative Party press release referred to the rival Liberal Party leader as an "evil reptilian kitten-eater from another planet." (Talk about your negative campaigning.) | | | Fewer people will be acquainted with Moresnet, a European nation that owed its existence of more than 100 years (1816 to 1919) to the fact that its two bordering nations, the Netherlands and Prussia, couldn't agree on just where to draw their borders. |
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http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0211/p25s01-stin.html
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| | Negative Campaigning |
| | Earlier I said how Sun Tzu's theory of information says that a negative campaign works more against the challenger than the incumbent in a political race. | | | Audio Books on CD: Our MP3 Downloads have been so popular, we now offer our Art of War and Art of Sales Books on CD. | | | Bush has just begun to advertise, and we already are seeing that this is true. |
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