Question

[fatman]

I have a question for the forum, and I'm not being snarky.

Does criticizing your opponent work better than highlighting your own goals and proposals?

I ask this because a lot of posters here aren't interested in bringing up their candidate's goals and proposals, but only in posting the latest derogatory story/blog/whatever of their opponent (and it happens on both sides, and there are posters on both sides who actually take the time to lay out and explain the proposals).  I'm not even going to say that's wrong as that would be my personal opinion and I'm not the morality police, I'm just interested in whether it works better for getting people to come to your point of view.

[Plane]

"If you have the law on your side, pound on the law. If you have the facts on your side, pound on the facts. If you don't have the facts or the law, then pound on the table."
 


http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pound_the_table




"If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me," .....Alice Roosevelt Longworth

[Amianthus]

I have a question for the forum, and I'm not being snarky.

Does criticizing your opponent work better than highlighting your own goals and proposals?

I changed Cindy's mind about McCain/Palin after pointing her to McCain's proposals for education.

So, that seems to work. For reasonable people, anyway.

[Xavier_Onassis]

It seems that the issues and the proposals to address them should count, and attacks on the opposition should be ignored. I am sure it works this way for some people. But both fear and gossip seem to appeal to more people than reason.

Campaign ads are mostly addressed at a specific demographic: the undecided. Most ardent Democrats and Republicans have already decided whom they favor.

[Cynthia]

I have a question for the forum, and I'm not being snarky.

Does criticizing your opponent work better than highlighting your own goals and proposals?

I changed Cindy's mind about McCain/Palin after pointing her to McCain's proposals for education.

So, that seems to work. For reasonable people, anyway.

LOL...well, actually,  one can not change another person's mind. However, you 've provided ideas and proposals that have helped me become more informed. . .'tis true.

By the way, you did not, however, change my mind with regard to the details within the very ACT of the No Child Left Behind.

There are  still many issues within the act itself.

You were not able to convince me that the NCLB act expects  95%  as opposed to 100% being asked to read and compute math by 2014. The NCLB act  never stated that 95% of children must be able to read at level. It did, however, expect 100% of all chilren will read at grade level. Special Education students included. That must be changed. The bell curve was missing.

Perhaps we shall see changed in this act within the next few year. Hope for the child, as too many good teachers are leaving the PS system left and right because of the outrageous punitive actions taken against good schools.

The system is broken. The method of calculating  progress made , well, is -----simply not fair, and filled with holes.

On this, my friend, we shall never agree.

C*