by Tom Infield
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/20101001_As_Pa__gubernatorial_race_heats_up__negative_ads_begin.html
Negative Commercials
On Wednesday September 29 the Pa governor race arrived at attack mode. The public could see this attack as they watch their regular scheduled programming.
Not uncommon for candidates, Democrate Dan Onorado released some campaign commercials highlighting the bad qualities of his opponent, Tom Corbett. The commercials accused Corbett of being a “budget-buster, property tax raiser, and a fleet-car abuser.” Onorato’s commercial also said that Corbett “insulted laid-off workers.”
Political science teacher, Christopher Borick, believes that from it is the start of plethora commercials. Each bashing their opposing candidates. He said that if more ads didn’t show up it would be a shock.
Although the Corbett campaign avoided answering questions about when their counter ads would commercials, campaign aides have had commercials ready to go from weeks ago. Corbett says that Onorato’s commercials are just there to “distract and mislead” votes with “unsubstantiated, mis-sourced attacks.”
As an attempt to pick out the good in the commercials Corbett that he “requested budget increases every year” since 2004. Even thought this may be true these increases were partly supported because it would get an increase in salary and benefits for state workers, but not by Corbett, by Governor Rendell.
Some statements on the commercials are not entirely non-bias. For instance the ad says Corbett “raised property taxes by 20%,” although votes wont consider that Corbett dentirely980 when he was a commissioner of a township. Now Corbett has no control over the tax policy because he is attorney general. Onorato also attacked Corbett on his plan to save money by cutting state car fleet. But Rendell called Corbett a hypocrite since the car fleet in the Attorney General’s office was “proportionally larger than most state department.” Corbett’s rebuttal to that accusation was that fight gun crime in Philadelphia. Corbett asked if Onorato was saying he (Corbett) was opposed to fighting gun crime. Onorato always uses to his advantage the time when Corbett “noticed many help-wanted ads… and said he suspected that some workers would rather collect benefits than aggressively look for a job. “Pa GOP leader saying that Corbett was wrong for saying such a foolish thing amended this statement.
I believe that Infield does feel like Corbett is doing a better job. Commercials after now will targeted to attack candidates at all angles. Commercials should be relied on, for this very reason. Candidates views are mostly only half true and twisted so that they appear in a negative light. Even so, many people have such aids in mind when making their choice of candidate. I believe such commercials will have as much effect on the campaign as much as any other campaign, although it is just the beginning.
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