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Both sides have shown an affinity for such dark arts. For months, the AFL-CIO and its affiliates have been blanketing swing states with direct mail promoting Obama and attacking McCain for his "$520 Italian loafers." A union group called Wake Up Wal-Mart is running ads in swing states condemning McCain's "Bush-style corporate tax breaks," while the liberal group Catholics United has an ad saying McCain does not "defend all human life" because, among other issues, he supported the war in Iraq...
...evidence deployed in these campaigns can be dizzyingly convoluted. One newspaper ad by Brooks' group cites the fact that Obama's foreign policy views have been praised by Pat Buchanan, a Republican and a longtime critic of American policy toward Israel. At the same time, the liberal group MoveOn.org has been sending around e-mails with the apparently false claim that Sarah Palin, McCain's running mate, supported Buchanan in the 2000 election. (She wore a Buchanan button when he visited Alaska but says she never backed him.) All the money and outside effort has a single goal: reaching voters...
...interview, di Pasquale says, “I’m clean. I get tested four times a year. It’s free. And I use condoms.” Sweetie, don’t you think it would be easier to just place a personal ad somewhere? The magazine’s first issue also includes an interview with a recent Harvard graduate named Fiona, who is introduced as being a refreshing change from the “smoking hot girl who’s actually half-retarded.” Fiona definitely proves this in her interview...
...free market of ideas doesn't always work so well. As candidates know, a far greater percentage of voters hear the original lie in a campaign ad than ever read about the fact-checked version in a local paper or website like Factcheck.org or Politifact.com. And even if voters do hear the refutation of an ad's claims, studies show that may not alter their perceptions created by the original ad. It may well be that the standards for commercial advertising have worked too well, instilling in many viewers the belief that what they hear on television is mostly true...
...Every so often, Jackson says, a candidate can be shamed into rescinding a false statement. He cites as an example an ad the Obama campaign was using earlier in the campaign in which the Democratic Senator claimed he "worked my way through college." Factcheck.org asked for specifics about the jobs Obama had held, which turned out to be just two or three summer positions. The campaign stopped using the line and changed it to "He got through college with scholarships and hard work...