- Harper and the Con's Attack Ads Is Reason For Low Voter Turnout - Continued

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A bad night for the Liberals, Robert Silver, 10 Nov.'09
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/blogs/spector-vision/the-big-winner-in-quebec/article1357381/ Tab 7

I can't believe they are still allowing posts to this article.
For anybody who might be following this article . . .

Here is some more support for the fact that the low voter turn out in this last by-election is attributable to the Harper and the Con's negative attack ads.

It also gives some insight to the Harper statement the other day "Profoundly evil to seek to resolve political differences through the destruction of the other side" [sic] (see my post: 09 November, 2009
- Is Harper's Fraudian Slip Showing, Again )

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Alan Whitehorn, professor of political science at the Royal Military College of Canada, finds it alarming.

He worries about "this notion of all-out war, of obliterating the opposition rather than simply defeating them. My feeling is all the major parties have a right to exist," he said in an interview. "I've done work on genocide so I'm very sensitive to language that goes too far and begins to create a culture of intolerance and denigration...


"I've long been a critic of negative advertising that in the short term may help you to win elections. But in the long term, the cost to the political process and the esteem politicians and the political process suffer is counterproductive and is one of the factors contributing to low voter turnout, not to mention the sense of fatalism, despair and alienation as people ask 'What can I do?' "
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Canadian politics should be civil, not civil war
By: Frances Russell 22/01/2009
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/westview/canadian_politics_should_be_civil_not_civil_war38129694.html



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