> > Being a Canadian, just north of the USA, I tend to get a lot of Americain channels. [...] I was suprised to see how much campaining that there was. I was even more suprised at the volume of negative campaining going on. In a one hour period, I saw 22 commercials about the upcoming Americain election. Out of those, 3 - yes, only 3 - were positive campaining. The other 19 were all trying to bash one politition or another.
> > Personally, I don't like negative campaining. It just doesn't seem right to bash other parties in order to bolster ones own side. I think it also says something about the polititians: "We can't think of anything good to say about ourselves, so we'll just show you how much my opponents suck using completely biased reports."
> > [...]
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> > I can just imagine the questions too. "So, do you like [name of opposing politition] OR would you like to have the $50 bill that I'm holding out in front of you?"
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> Sounds like that would be standard political practice to me...

Heh. You imagine that this may possibly, actually, even perhaps *might* be a 'standard' practice to which no one would bother bat an eyelash? That sucks.


> > So, I guess we're back to that question "Who can we vote for?" Everyone seems to be doing negative campaining, and I just can't repect people who do that. Luckily for me though, I don't have to make a choice, as I'm both too young and not and Amaricain citizen.

I am thankful that Canadian politicos do not appear to engage in the same type of "Campaigning Rules of Engagement" which American candidates seem to embrace. Any Canadian M.P. or national party engaging in such a muck-raking agenda of untruths -- flamboyantly in public, no less -- would be giving themselves the kiss of death, by branding their party as unstable and juvenile. I certainly wouldn't vote for a party like that.


> > -Ka"I wonder how each politition would react to a pie-in-the-face...."z!
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> Nyper"Interesting proposition..."old

Heh. Quebec is ground zero for pie-throwing in North America. We have a loosely 'professional' association of pie-throwers (they're self-described as anarchist 'entartistes') who specialize in cream-whipping pompous pols and business leaders. They maintain all citizens have the right to pie.

Wolf "Public servants who win respect are above all that" spirit