https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2012/11/12/how-obama-won-by-discouraging-voters/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usTue, 09 Jun 2026 07:43:07 -0400<![CDATA[The sad reality is the lavishly funded ad campaigns worked as intended. A report from a monitoring agency at Wesleyan University suggests that an astonishing 85 percent of all campaign commercials by the Obama campaign and allied groups featured negative messages about Romney. These attack ads aren’t supposed to inspire your people to go to the polls; they’re meant to dissuade the other guy’s supporters from going to the polls. The purpose of negative advertising is to discourage, not encourage, voting.]]>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 16:45:15 -0500<![CDATA[Allahpundit]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2012/11/12/how-obama-won-by-discouraging-voters-n97416