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ProgressiveEconomist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-06-08 11:17 PM
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67. IMO HRC's fearmongering negative campaigning turns OFF hundreds of
Edited on Thu Mar-06-08 11:18 PM by ProgressiveEconomist
thousands of young people, independents, and prodigal Republicans Obama has been recruiting for the fall. That's what negative campaigning and bridge-burning Macchiavellian tactics do. When you have no hope of winning over many of your primary opponent's supporters to your side, the next best thing for a completely ruthless and irresponsible politician is to try to make them more apathetic and cynical about politics, so they'll stay home. But many of them who stay home from the primary because of negative campaigning will stay home for the fall General Election as well, with carry-over apathy and cynicism that will make many of them very hard to reach the next election, and the election after that.
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