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during a town hall meeting on CNN (believe me, there was NOTHING on CSPAN or MSNBC), the audience laughed and hooted when the Kerry representative said that Kerry wasn't doing negative advertising.
The majority of the public doesn't differentiate between campaign ads and 527s, it seems. The Kerry guy didn't do too well of a job differentiating himself.
I would have liked him to say something in the order of:
There have been many commercials aired about the flawed presidency of George Bush. These have been run by other organizations that were in existance before John Kerry got his first vote in the primary, and their goal has been to inform the public about George Bush and his record as president. They are not affiliated with the Kerry campaign, and in fact, Senator Kerry has condemned several of these ads that he considered inaccurate or unfair to his opponent.
Instead, the Kerry representative yelled something about, "You didn't hear John Kerry on the commercial saying he paid for the ad" or something like that.
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