Attack ads
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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.
- They are pretty much everywhere from television to Facebook.
- Even one of the news teams, Wink News, admits that the advertisements are everywhere.
- They are very annoying and tasteless.
- 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.
- Most of them are biased and derogatory to the point that they are sometimes hard to follow. Here are examples:
- They claim that some candidates are under investigation by the FBI as being wanted for a determined reason.
- They also claim that other candidates are against gender equality and environmental protection.
- They claimed that Ann Murray dropped the n-bomb.
- Another claim was that Charlie Crist "ran away" from Florida and became a US Senator instead.
- For Bill Nelson, they claimed that he "failed" his promise for Lake Okeechobee's algae since 1992.
- Some presidential and gubernatorial candidates have been shown to hate these ads.
- Even people who watched these ads hate them and claim they’re ineffective.
- So much negativity and astroturfing whatsoever.
- 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.
- Some attack ads are straight-up nonsensical.[1]
References
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ3B8WvVjL4 Warning: NSFW content
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