Democrats ran no negative ads during primary

[Landslide Lyndon]

In b4 jfern starts ranting about David Brock, Correct the Records and the "16 NEGATIVE STORIES AGAINST BERNIE" ran by the Washington Post.

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-06-09/businessweek-campaign-ads

According to Kantar Media, Clinton and Sanders aired 206,528 spots between them this year—and not one was deemed “negative” by the analysts in Kantar’s Campaign Media Analysis Group (CMAG).

“In an open presidential primary, this is probably unprecedented,” says Elizabeth Wilner, senior vice president for political advertising at Kantar.


P.S. Also, the laugh-out loud delusional quote of the year:

Republicans believe they can inflict more damage. “People think she has these really high negatives, but in reality nobody has laid a glove on her yet,” says Sean Spicer, chief strategist for the Republican National Committee.

[IceSpear]

Maybe that was why the social media atmosphere was so toxic. The supporters thought they needed to pick up the slack. lol

It just goes to show that despite all the handwringing and overreactions, once this is in the rearview mirror months/years from now it will go down as a remarkably tame and relatively positive campaign.

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That's interesting, considering the fact that both Clinton and Sanders supporters on this very board were accusing each other of 'running negative ads' and 'ruining party unity'.

[Xing]

Yeah, considering how negative a primary that was actually quite tame felt, I can't imagine how awful 2008 would have been if social media had a much of a presence as it does now.

[SillyAmerican]

Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton both knew who the nominee was going to be; they can each now pat themselves on the back for running such a civil "contest".

Now the real contest begins...

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Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton both knew who the nominee was going to be; they can each now pat themselves on the back for running such a civil "contest".

Now the real contest begins...

Glad to see you're living up to your name there, buddy.