What are the pros of negative campaigning?
918327
Adds to partisan politics.  Allowing the big distraction that we are all being screwed over by the rich.
957159
Sometimes, but negative ads really push me to try to find the good things in that person.  I really think that negative ads should be illegal.  I could watch TV all day long and only know the bad things about candidates.  I would like to know the plans of the future leaders in my area, instead of the petty fines one candidate had 20 years ago.  I am so sick of commercials that I have stopped watching TV for the two weeks before the election.
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Teaching ppl to be sensitive to others is a healthy thing.\n\nUsing terminology that is of a negative tone is detrimental. For example, I can't stand to hear the phrase, "runs like a girl." unless it is actually about someone running I guess. But most of the time it is referring to running away like a coward. That always ticks me off when I believe women have more courage than men when it comes for standing up and fighting for what we believe in at all cost.\n\nWith all that said though, it can be taken to the extreme. And I have no clue what has happen to the phrase, "sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me." \n\nThat teaches us to let negative things bounce off us and that we choose to let somebody's elses opinion of us hurt us or not. We seem to have lost that mentality.\n\nOh yeah I wanted to add a funny story: myself and a friend were talking and she slipped and called someone she knows a damn jew for some financial deal they did. My eyebrows went up.... and she, knowing I am of jewish race, immediately started backtracking. I then said, 'damn Irish drunk' because she is Irish and drinks A LOT. She said ohhh good one and we laughed for I bet half an hour.
306048
Pros - can smooth over a lot of inter-employee issues. Can act as facilitator between employer and employee in sensitive discussions.\n\nCons - Can induce fear that "someone is trying to manipulate me".
874679
The pros are that we could possibly research many new cures for diseases, the cons are only ethics debates for people with too much time on their hands (i.e. overpaid politicians).
708307
i agree with you. campaigns have become a mud slinging contest, with no consideration of the publics need to hear a candidates standing on any given issue. lip service is given to the most popular subjects, but no real substance is contained in their rhetoric.
855326
disagree, change is good if it benefits me\n\nchange for sake of change is waste of time, as is actively working against change by undoing it all simply bcos this is how its always been done??
331974
Pros--we got some good people in good jobs that had been overlooked.\n\nCons--we have some terrible people in jobs just because of their race rather than their qualifications.
1176326
Maybe animal experimentation? If you want a source for some information on the topics you mentioned (and a few more), take a look at http://www.balancedpolitics.org/. It'll discuss the pros and cons of each issue.\n\nGood luck with that.
879108
work with the candidate running against him/her.  Even if you don't like the candidate, they have the right to run.  Heck, even Gary Coleman has had his name on a ballot.
1003841
pros - life experience\n\ncons - difficulty in getting job
945005
I think it is more an indication of how vile the people are.  The sad truth is that attack ads work.  It is a lesson that Democrats have been very slow in learning.  In the last presidential election, Kerry did not respond to the Swift Boat Veterans ads.  He thought if he ignored them, the truth would prevail.  It did not.  If he wanted to go negative, he could have run ads calling Bush a draft dodger, a former drunk, and a former coke head.  If he had, he'd probably be president now.
763300
Because politics are negative.
433601
Pros: informative, mass communication, educational tool, entertainment.\n\nCons: makes people think that they need to have the latest fashions, newest shoes, makes young girls think that they need to be razor thin to be accepted by our population, reality tv shows.
657497
I think creating a negative message anywhere only give you a bad reputation. Rather being negative, its good to take it positive and move on.
1128486
Pros --->There is a variaty of ideas\n               You might have fun with the people you are sharing with\n\nCons ---> Somethings or most of the times ..you do the thinking , they do nothing\n                 Crash between each other opinions\n                  Everyone get lazy and there is not thinking....\n                  The group might end up doing other things different from thinking
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No. Political campaigns are specifically exempted from the no call list. You can tell them not to call you whenever they call though, and they are not supposed to ever call back.