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Negative attack ads/Negative campaigning = reduced voter turnout
Source: American Political Science Review Vol 58, No. 4, December 1994.
This confirms what I suspected all along. Negative ads/Attack ads serve only one purpose, to suppress voter turnout. This serves to reduce the electorate to two small, extremely partisan, cynical camps. The rest of America turns away in disgust.
Can you blame them?
What's more - are you willing to be an agent of change to end this systematic threat to our democracy?
I'll start:
"I love conservatives and hope they turn out, participate, and vote, in vast numbers."
To all the alleged "liberals" that think the above statement is a problem, too damn bad. If you really want to make a difference, reach out to people who are disenchanted with politics, or think they don't matter.
This confirms what I suspected all along. Negative ads/Attack ads serve only one purpose, to suppress voter turnout. This serves to reduce the electorate to two small, extremely partisan, cynical camps. The rest of America turns away in disgust.
Can you blame them?
What's more - are you willing to be an agent of change to end this systematic threat to our democracy?
I'll start:
"I love conservatives and hope they turn out, participate, and vote, in vast numbers."
To all the alleged "liberals" that think the above statement is a problem, too damn bad. If you really want to make a difference, reach out to people who are disenchanted with politics, or think they don't matter.