10-20-2008, 11:47 AM
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Originally Posted by sharkiz1  I think all the negative ads are backfiring on McCain too. Colin Powell said the negative campaigning had an affect on him endorsing Obama instead of McCain. I know I saw my very first positive ad last night from McCain so I guess he is realizing this finally. I am being serious on this. All previous ads were attacking Obama. This one actually said what he stands for instead of smears on Obama. I didn't mind watching it. Obama has been almost entirely positive in the ads here in my part of NC. And he is even in the polls with McCain now. First time since 1976 that dems have a chance of taking NC. I am not holding my breath though. But I am hopeful. I was on the NC board of elections website the other day and saw that the dems now have over 800,000 more registered voters than repubs.  | From fact check.org: 100% Negative?
Obama falsely claimed all of McCain's ads had been "negative."
Obama: And 100 percent, John, of your ads – 100 percent of them have been negative.
McCain: It's not true.
Obama: It absolutely is true.
It was almost true, for one recent week. Obama was referring to a report by the Wisconsin Advertising Project at the University of Wisconsin that concluded that “nearly 100 percent of the McCain campaign’s advertisements were negative” during the week of Sept. 28 through Oct. 4. During the same week, 34 percent of the Obama campaign’s ads were negative. The Obama campaign was found to have outspent the McCain campaign in nearly all of the competitive states, in some cases by a margin of more than 3-to-1.
McCain’s ads, however, have not been deemed 100 percent negative in other weeks. In fact, in the week after the Republican National Convention, 77 percent of Obama’s ads were negative, according to the advertising project, while 56 percent of McCain’s were negative.
I wonder if all of Obama's negative ads have been backfiring on him too.
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