Attack ads

All of this just works. ― Todd Howard

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An attack ad is an advertisement whose message is designed to wage a personal attack against an opposing candidate or political party to gain support for the attacking candidate and attract voters.

Why They Suck

Note: Some of these examples mainly focus on gubernatorial elections of Florida, although some still focus on US presidential elections as well.

1. They are pretty much everywhere from television to Facebook.
   • Even one of the news teams, Wink News, admits that the advertisements are everywhere.
2. They are very annoying and tasteless.
3. According to SunSentinel, they are very cliché as most ads feature clips from television news, dramatic music, unflattering black-and-white pictures of the target and ominous warnings.
4. Most of them are biased and derogatory to the point that they are sometimes hard to follow. Here are examples:
   1. They claim that some candidates are under investigation by the FBI as being wanted for a determined reason.
   2. They also claim that other candidates are against gender equality and environmental protection.
   3. They claimed that Ann Murray dropped the n-bomb.
   4. Another claim was that Charlie Crist "ran away" from Florida and became a US Senator instead.
   5. For Bill Nelson, they claimed that he "failed" his promise for Lake Okeechobee's algae since 1992.
5. Some presidential and gubernatorial candidates have been shown to hate these ads.
6. Even people who watched these ads hate them and claim they’re ineffective.
7. So much negativity and astroturfing whatsoever.
8. They can be hypocritical at times. Even though they encourage not to vote for a candidate and recommend another candidate(s), the other ads will also tell viewers not to vote for the candidate(s) they recommended, making some not vote for any candidate either way.
9. Some attack ads are straight-up nonsensical.

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