Being a Canadian, just north of the USA, I tend to get a lot of Americain channels. While I was watching a few Americain shows (Because hey, I think that Americain TV is a lot better then most Candian stuff, with the exception of things like Jerry Springer), 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."

In one paticular commercial, although I won't mention which political party paid for the advertisement, went so far as to say something to the effect of "[name of a politition] is a complete loser. No one that we asked likes him. He lies to everyone who we interviewed and is going to waste the entire surplus and just make your life generally miserable, as will [some other polition] and [yet another one]. So, you're only real choice is [person who paid for the ad]" Of course, in microprint at the bottom it said that only 10 people were asked and interveiwed.... 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?"

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.

-Ka"I wonder how each politition would react to a pie-in-the-face...."z!