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A Black woman has never lost the general election for POTUS in US history but 45 white men have lost (lemmy.world)
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[–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 months ago

There was a time, a few decades ago, when there was a real demand to get away from the negativity of most campaigns. Everyone says they wanted it, polls clearly showed it, etc.

But then there was another study which analyzed the effectiveness of campaigns (i.e. if they won) vs how negative they went.

Negativity was clearly proven to be the winning tactic.