{"id":848,"date":"2024-11-01T16:23:56","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T20:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thechcgriffin.news\/?p=848"},"modified":"2024-11-04T15:27:13","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T20:27:13","slug":"campaigns-shouldnt-focus-on-negativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechcgriffin.news\/?p=848","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Campaigns Shouldn&#8217;t Focus on Negativity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Richard Mason<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Being a swing-state resident means you must endure the experience of being the center of presidential elections. This current cycle feels worse when it comes to the political ads that feel inescapable. They\u2019re present on television channels, sports broadcasts, ad-supported streaming, and YouTube. Pulling this off isn\u2019t cheap: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/make-it-stop-voters-us-swing-states-frazzled-by-ads-blitz-2024-10-30\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a little over $1 billion<\/a> has been spent between July 22 and Oct. 8<sup> <\/sup>on presidential race ads in swing states.\u00a0Unless you have that cool uncle who shared his HBO Max password with you, every viewing experience will be interrupted by highly negative commercials.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump\u2019s 2024 campaign has focused their TV ads on social issues like immigration, security, and transgender policies. All these ads <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-anti-trans-ads-spending\/\">highlight the topics as negatives<\/a> of Kamala Harris\u2019 record. With the exception of <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-tips-taxes-nevada-0fc5fa0fb7bdcf963757c748c01bfbe9#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">no taxes on tips<\/a>, there are few policies championed by Trump. That\u2019s not to say Harris has offered a five-year plan, but at least <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/alisondurkee\/2024\/10\/14\/what-to-know-about-kamala-harris-economic-agenda-as-she-announces-new-proposals-for-black-men\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">she has a platform<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump\u2019s strategy has focused on the most polarizing issues. The Harris campaign has focused on abortion rights, which is also a contested topic. The distinction I\u2019d make between the two campaign\u2019s strategies is that Harris\u2019 is not nearly as over the top as Trump\u2019s. In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/united-states\/2024\/09\/04\/the-trump-campaign-unleashes-a-barrage-of-negative-advertisements\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Economist article<\/a> from September, it\u2019s summarized that Trump\u2019s campaign went more negative as Kamala\u2019s numbers surpassed his own. In the same article there is a featured Trump supporter who says that the former president needs to \u201cstick to the policy more than the name calling.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I often question what came first, the angry voter or the angry politician? Do voters really want such inflammatory rhetoric? While the style of the message is likely no one\u2019s favorite, Trump is still feeding his base what they want. Pew Research reported that a majority of polled Trump supporters are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/politics\/2024\/06\/06\/cultural-issues-and-the-2024-election\/\">in favor of\u00a0mass deportation<\/a> for people who have entered the country without legal permission. The\u00a0hostile political climate is likely going nowhere anytime soon. But I think a good start is to stop calling people horrible for differing views and to not center an entire political campaign on this.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Richard Mason Being a swing-state resident means you must endure the experience of being the center of presidential elections. This current cycle feels worse when it comes to the political ads that feel inescapable&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,18],"tags":[39,9,12],"class_list":["post-848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-opinion","tag-2024-election","tag-news","tag-opinion"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":16,"label":"News"},{"value":18,"label":"Opinion"}],"post_tag":[{"value":39,"label":"2024 Election"},{"value":9,"label":"News"},{"value":12,"label":"Opinion"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"The Griffin","author_link":"https:\/\/thechcgriffin.news\/?author=7"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":16,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":16,"taxonomy":"category","description":"The News section.","parent":0,"count":29,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":16,"category_count":29,"category_description":"The News section.","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0},{"term_id":18,"name":"Opinion","slug":"opinion","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":18,"taxonomy":"category","description":"The opinion section.","parent":0,"count":19,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":18,"category_count":19,"category_description":"The opinion section.","cat_name":"Opinion","category_nicename":"opinion","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":39,"name":"2024 Election","slug":"2024-election","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":39,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":2,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":9,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":9,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"Linked to the news catergory.","parent":0,"count":36,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":12,"name":"Opinion","slug":"opinion","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":12,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"Linked to the opinion category","parent":0,"count":22,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechcgriffin.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechcgriffin.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechcgriffin.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechcgriffin.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechcgriffin.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thechcgriffin.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":859,"href":"https:\/\/thechcgriffin.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions\/859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechcgriffin.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechcgriffin.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechcgriffin.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}