PoliCHARTZ - Thread of U.S. Politics & the Presidential Election

[steven787]

fkusumot said:

steven787 said:
And it works

Yeah. Sometimes. McCain's campaign manager had this to say about the new strategy:

The premise of any smear campaign rests on a central truth of politics: Most of us will vote for a candidate we like and respect, even if we don't agree with him on every issue. But if you can cripple a voter's basic trust in a candidate, you can probably turn his vote. The idea is to find some piece of personal information that is tawdry enough to raise doubts, repelling a candidate's natural supporters. [...]

It's not necessary, however, for a smear to be true to be effective. The most effective smears are based on a kernel of truth and applied in a way that exploits a candidate's political weakness.

And so it shall be.

He should know how to do it, he was the victim of one of the worst American smears.

 

I feel like eating a bagel with all this talk of smears.