Television ads are where candidates effect the most typical audience. Voters shouldn't be persuaded by television ads on how to vote. Pop-up internet political ads are fair but can be the harshest attacks.
Yes, and benevolent dictatorship is the most efficient form of government. And smoking is bad for you. And booze destroys your brain. And guns kill people. Sovereignty lies within Man, not within the State. Internalized values are generally thought to be of a higher sociological order than enforced ones. That is the current Western socioscientific thinking. Perhaps you disagree.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."