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So far this campaign season, anti-Donald Trump forces have spent close to $70 million on ads attacking the GOP front-runner—more than triple what Trump has spent on his entire campaign.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/04/anti-trump-ads-backfire-213819#ixzz46RUx4Lwh

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nd we found that Cruz’s anti-Trump ad backfires. It doesn’t hurt Donald J. Trump. It helps him.
Our clinical message trial showed Cruz’s anti-Trump actually made voters more likely to vote for Trump, boosting his support by 3 percentage points overall. That’s not a very large increase for the sample as a whole (and not statistically significant). But for blue-collar voters, the attack ad increased support for Trump by 18 percentage points; and it increased support among blue-collar men by more than 33 percentage points. (36 percent of the blue-collar men who watched the coke ad, for example, said they would vote for Trump—compared with 69 percent of the blue collar men who watched the anti-Trump ad.) And in both subgroups, incidentally, the anti-Trump ad caused actually support for Ted Cruz to fall.

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So sure, I've written before on how trump has spent less in toto on this campaign than hillary is spending every 3 weeks.

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It seems that anti-trump adds are getting people mad.

It is an interesting, unrecognized issue for the clinton campaign - one I wonder if they will pick up on. Heretofor here playbook has strenuously been to negatively define her opponents.

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ORIGINAL: ThatDizzyChick

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So sure, I've written before on how trump has spent less in toto on this campaign than hillary is spending every 3 weeks.

He doesn't need to spend much as the media covers every word he says in ridiculous depth. Turn on CNN sometime, it is non-stop 24 hours Trump coverage.

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It seems that anti-trump adds are getting people mad.

It is an interesting, unrecognized issue for the clinton campaign - one I wonder if they will pick up on. Heretofor here playbook has strenuously been to negatively define her opponents.

It certainly seems to make his core supporters angry, but the real question is does he have enough core supporters to win in a general election.

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ORIGINAL: ThatDizzyChick

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So sure, I've written before on how trump has spent less in toto on this campaign than hillary is spending every 3 weeks.

He doesn't need to spend much as the media covers every word he says in ridiculous depth. Turn on CNN sometime, it is non-stop 24 hours Trump coverage.

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It seems that anti-trump adds are getting people mad.

It is an interesting, unrecognized issue for the clinton campaign - one I wonder if they will pick up on. Heretofor here playbook has strenuously been to negatively define her opponents.

It certainly seems to make his core supporters angry, but the real question is does he have enough core supporters to win in a general election.

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

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ORIGINAL: ThatDizzyChick

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So sure, I've written before on how trump has spent less in toto on this campaign than hillary is spending every 3 weeks.

He doesn't need to spend much as the media covers every word he says in ridiculous depth. Turn on CNN sometime, it is non-stop 24 hours Trump coverage.

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It seems that anti-trump adds are getting people mad.

It is an interesting, unrecognized issue for the clinton campaign - one I wonder if they will pick up on. Heretofor here playbook has strenuously been to negatively define her opponents.

It certainly seems to make his core supporters angry, but the real question is does he have enough core supporters to win in a general election.

I started seeing different "headlines" cropping up that trump is now sounding"presidential" Not just from fox, cnn, msnbc, abc(?) tons of different stations, and Im incredulous,
he has been polite for what three days and now he is "presidential"
Im avoiding it like the plague.
I cant take the hilarity.

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

playing it
yeah
very true

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No, I think you misrepresent the real question. Core supporters are irrelevent to the discussion at hand really, which isn't really the whether he will win - but rather that negative ads seem not to be working as previously.

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So the next question is - how will the hardcore left respond when she pivots to the center....

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ORIGINAL: ThatDizzyChick

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No, I think you misrepresent the real question. Core supporters are irrelevent to the discussion at hand really, which isn't really the whether he will win - but rather that negative ads seem not to be working as previously.

Ah, OK, gotcha. Sorry. And yes it does seem that to an extent they are having the opposite effect from the desired one, but again, who exactly is getting mad? Trump supporters or previously undecided voters? I think it is mostly the former.

Also, the relative lack of negative campaigning on the Democratic side might have an effect as well, a lot of Republican voters might well be looking at both campaigns and be thinking to themselves "Well those fuckers can avoid the muck racking, why can't we?"

And a 3rd factor is likely the stupidity of the negative campaigns themselves, they are focusing on petty stupid shit, like Trump's dumb tweets rather than his dumb policies. Like the whole 9/11 7/11 thing, I mean like really, who gives a fuck, so the guy had a slip of the tongue during a fucking campaign speech. So fucking what? Or the non-story about one plane not being properly registered. How the fuck is that his fault, some underling screwed up, and somehow this is indicative of his worth as a candidate? No, what is indicative of his unsuitability is his platform, the dumb ass shit he plans to do.

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a lot of conservatives have been very disgruntled with the Repugs for a couple of decades. There is a certain satisfaction in sticking a finger in the eye of the establishment by rooting for trump instead of another rino.

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ORIGINAL: epiphiny43

Your point on his dumb-ass policies is well taken, and needs more attention, but these aren't as easy to criticize to a populace largely ignorant of modern economics, international political realities, or a whole lot else. What the constant business slight-of-hand stuff that ended in the airplane with no registration shows is a basic desire to finesse any system for personal benefit, and HUGELY IMPORTANT, an inability to properly delegate tasks to competent people, probably the single most important skill the POTUS needs to have. Anyone who had the misfortune to watch the clown doing his show on handling subordinates knows how much he enjoys abusing the help and indulging his impulses. Not how I'd run the DoD . . .

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ORIGINAL: ThatDizzyChick

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No, I think you misrepresent the real question. Core supporters are irrelevent to the discussion at hand really, which isn't really the whether he will win - but rather that negative ads seem not to be working as previously.

Ah, OK, gotcha. Sorry. And yes it does seem that to an extent they are having the opposite effect from the desired one, but again, who exactly is getting mad? Trump supporters or previously undecided voters? I think it is mostly the former.

Also, the relative lack of negative campaigning on the Democratic side might have an effect as well, a lot of Republican voters might well be looking at both campaigns and be thinking to themselves "Well those fuckers can avoid the muck racking, why can't we?"

And a 3rd factor is likely the stupidity of the negative campaigns themselves, they are focusing on petty stupid shit, like Trump's dumb tweets rather than his dumb policies. Like the whole 9/11 7/11 thing, I mean like really, who gives a fuck, so the guy had a slip of the tongue during a fucking campaign speech. So fucking what? Or the non-story about one plane not being properly registered. How the fuck is that his fault, some underling screwed up, and somehow this is indicative of his worth as a candidate? No, what is indicative of his unsuitability is his platform, the dumb ass shit he plans to do.