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2010: Democrats Set Records for Dirtiest Election Ever
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| Contributor | Homegrown Democrat |
| Last Edited | Homegrown Democrat Oct 24, 2010 05:53pm |
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| Category | Commentary |
| Author | David A. Patten |
| News Date | Sunday, October 24, 2010 11:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | "Everything you are seeing on TV is a shameful lie."
That statement didn't come from an ad-weary voter, but it certainly could have.
It's actually a quote from GOP state Sen. Mick Mulvaney of South Carolina.
The reason for Mulvaney's disgust? Democrats recently aired an ad showing police booking an elderly woman into jail, as a narrator warns seniors that Mulvaney may take away their Social Security.
Mulvaney, running for Congress against Democratic Rep. John Spratt, called the 30-second spot "one of the most offensive and frightening ads I think I've ever seen."
As bad as it is, that ad may not even be the worst of this season's dirty campaign advertising tricks.
Just ask Ben Kalasho, who's running for the city council in Santee, Calif., northeast of San Diego. One morning he got a call from a voter asking why he was putting up campaign posters in Arabic.
Huh?
According to the local CBS affiliate, someone printed up signs calling Kalasho "The Arab Leader Santee Needs." To drive the attack home the sign displayed some Arabic characters.
"The funny thing," Kalasho said when he learned of the mysterious signs, "is I'm Polish."
Those are just a few examples of the extraordinarily negative tone that political campaigns are striking this year.
Faced with an angry electorate and a poisonous anti-incumbent zeitgeist, many Democratic incumbents feel they have no choice but to launch personal attacks against their opponents. |
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