On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 01:08 +1100, Tony Smith wrote:
> Question: How are Canadian political campaigns run?
> 
> Much is made of the fact that US campaigns are overwhelmingly negative, and
> usually against the person.  In other words, the message isn't "Vote for me,
> I'm a top bloke", it's "Vote for me because he's an arsehole".
> 
> Australian campaigns tend to be negative too, but more towards the party or
> the policy, but that's beginning to change.
> 
> And Canada?

That really depends on where in the "cycle" we are. Some campaigns get
very nasty, other years there's very little nastiness going on.

The one thing I can say is, in general, anybody DOING nasty stuff in a
campaign historically looses.

TTYL

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