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Imagine this: a small innocuous girl sitting in the middle of a daisy farm, slowly plucking the petals off of a flower, 1,2,3,4,5,7,6,8,6 until suddenly an omnipotent voice is heard ... 6,5,4,3,2,1,0 and an atomic bomb is blown shattering everyone's ears as well as achieving its main motive, captivating everyone's attention. Believe it or not but this was actually a major advertisement within the negative campaign led by the Democratic Party in 1964, and it proved to be quite effective against the Republican Senator Barry Goldwater. Now this was in 1964 but is evidently present in current events as well. Did you know that Hillary Clinton was at Donald Trump's wedding? Did you know that on Fox TV he'd praised her as, "A terrific woman and was doing a great …show more content…
What about the time Horace Greeley was accused by Grant's republicans of being a communist, free-lover and even a vegetarian. Well I suppose I can't run for president since I'm a vegetarian, but anyways, these negative campaigns have become increasingly popular and to some degree, immensely effective. They excel at expressing the negativity of others and also express the creativity within it, such as Ted Cruz's magnificently titled Holiday short story The Grinch Who Lost her Emails. I'm quite sure the Grinch doesn't have a pink suit on and blonde hair, hmmm, I wonder who it must be. The messages within these creative negative campaigns are conveyed to the public through publicity and controversy. Therefore they may prove to be fallacious, even contradictory. I mean honestly do you think Marie Antoinette really said, "Let them eat cake." or Barry Goldwater would've destroyed the world with his fanatical interest in the experimentation of nuclear weapons. Of course not, they're just assumptions, rumors spread by pamphleteers or the

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