Campaign Mistakes

Community Leader
Registered: 09-14-1997
Campaign Mistakes
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Sun, 10-26-2008 - 6:43pm

The campaigns are winding down. Let's grade them...not the candidates...the campaigns.


Biggest mistake...Republican...


Biggest mistake...Democrat...


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iVillage Member
Registered: 10-25-2006
Sun, 10-26-2008 - 7:15pm

Republican--tie between super-negative ads & picking Palin

Democratic--following the Republicans' lead in airing negative ads

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http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/october/meet_the_new_health_.php

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQTBYQlQ7yM

Community Leader
Registered: 09-14-1997
Sun, 10-26-2008 - 7:18pm

Republican...not vetting well


Democrats...not going on offensive with potential issues

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-19-2003
Sun, 10-26-2008 - 7:19pm
it's been proven that Obama had the most negative ads all along ... with the exception of that one week.

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iVillage Member
Registered: 10-25-2006
Sun, 10-26-2008 - 7:23pm
Not percentage-wise.

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http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/october/meet_the_new_health_.php

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQTBYQlQ7yM

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-19-2003
Sun, 10-26-2008 - 7:30pm
yes

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iVillage Member
Registered: 03-19-2003
Sun, 10-26-2008 - 7:32pm
Obama falsely claimed all of McCain's ads had been "negative."


Obama: And 100 percent, John, of your ads

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iVillage Member
Registered: 08-20-2008
Sun, 10-26-2008 - 7:37pm

"it's been proven that Obama had the most negative ads all along ... with the exception of that one week."

LOL! The question wasn't who had the most negative ads, though feel free to launch into a partisan attack on Obama in response to a non-partisan question. Very convincing.

My view of the biggest mistake of each campaign is as follows:

1. Obama: not voting against the FISA bill this summer and giving McCain far too much credit for opposing torture when McCain didn't really do much. Obama let his base, along with myself, down here. We want justice. We want to see our government clean up its act and live up to high standards.

2. McCain: picking Palin and not coming up with a relevant, coherent message (here is a very interesting article today on McCain's changing messages: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/26/magazine/26mccain-t.html ).

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-19-2003
Sun, 10-26-2008 - 7:39pm

my post was made in response to a post other than the original .. in case you didn't notice.

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iVillage Member
Registered: 03-19-2003
Sun, 10-26-2008 - 7:42pm
I feel they both focused too much on why the other guys plans were

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iVillage Member
Registered: 03-25-2007
Sun, 10-26-2008 - 7:43pm

Biggest mistake

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