ordnance11 Wrote:Your argument seemed to be attack ads aren't.
And also that it's something the Trump campaign is doing because they think they can win.
Quote:So why did they say it is voter suppression?
I haven't the faintest idea. Okay, yeah, whoever's using them, that kind of ad I see as more of a morale attack than anything else - you're not expecting to get people to vote for A instead of B, just to get them to not vote for B, whether it's by voting third party or not voting at all. It's not an obviously wrong thing to apply the term to on a purely dictionary basis... except that's not what the phrase actually gets used for. Connotation vs. denotation. So I don't even. (My first line on this subject was supposed to be an expression of disbelief that they were using that term for such a bog-standard political tactic.)
-Morgan.