Political Advertising Does More Harm Than Good

NO NEW POINTS IN ROUND 3! Dear audience, judges. Once again, hello, my name is Forever 23 and I am here to bring forth the premise which is that political advertising does more harm than good. My roadmap will include siting my sources, restating my points, clarifying this topic for my opponent and finally weighing this debate. So lets go through my opponents speech. Trough out his speech, my opponent repeatedly convicted me of plagiarism. I have used articles from websites, but I have sited my sources as my opponent has failed to notice. But dear audience, just for the sake of my opponent well being and for you, I will restate my sources. . http://www.cnn.com... . http://web.stanford.edu... . http://pcl.stanford.edu... . http://www.usnews.com... . http://www.50andbeyond.com... . http://www.bloomberg.com... . http://www.moorecommgroup.com... At the end of his speech, my opponent stated that I have not stated any assertions. However, I just have one question to the opponent. Dear opposition speaker, did you put on you glasses yesterday? For pardon, but only a very "talented mind" could have failed to see the 3 blatant arguments I have posted. Just because he/she failed failed to refute my assertions, it does not mean that the arguments were not there. For the sake of clarity, I would like to repeat all of my assertions of which the opposition has refuted NONE! 1. It discourages people to vote in campaigns. 2. Political advertisements have a negative effect on the democratic ideals that this country was fundamentally founded upon. 3. It hurts our country. 4. There are few rules and no referees. Perhaps my opponent has misunderstood this debate and therefore failed to debate the topic. In order to provide the needed help and clarity, I will in this speech explain all about political advertising and hope fully get my opponent to agree with me. What is political advertising? . https://adstandards.com.au..., Political advertising is advertising that attempts to influence or comment upon a matter which is currently the subject of extensive political debate. The advertising of an object is NOT political advertising. Political campaigns are. WASHINGTON (AP) " So far this campaign, the political parties have exposed voters to nearly $160 million in ads attacking congressional candidates. How much spent painting a positive image? About $17 million. That's nearly $1 of nice for every $10 of nasty. The message ingrained in such a disparity in numbers: Don't vote for a candidate; vote against the opponent. . http://usatoday30.usatoday.com.... In order to bring more clarity and justice, please let me add more "meat" into my own arguments. 1) IT DISCOURAGES VOTERS . https://www.washingtonpost.com...- voters/2014/11/04/cadae016-63d3-11e4-9fdc-d43b053ecb4d_story. html It"s one thing to read that more than $1 billion has been spent to run 2.2 million television ads on congressional and gubernatorial races in the 2014 midterms. "I don"t believe in anything they"re saying, because they"re bashing each other," said Jamie Aaron, 35, of Aurora, Colo. , as she loaded groceries into her car at a local supermarket. Aaron said she"s so discouraged by the slashing attacks that she"s not going to vote. The overall volume of broadcast and national cable television ads is actually down slightly from the 2010 election, largely because fewer House races are in play, according to data from the ad-tracking service Kantar Media analyzed by the Wesleyan Media Project. But states with competitive Senate races have been the scenes of major air battles, driving a 12 percent spike in the number of Senate ads this year compared with four years ago. By the end of last week, an estimated $410 million had been spent to air 907,900 ads in Senate races, according to the Center for Public Integrity"s analysis of Kantar Media data. For Rebecca Vinduska, a 39-year-old Democrat in Claremont, the most frustrating part is the lack of information the ads offer about what the candidates plan to do. "There"s no talk about the future," she said. "It"s always, "This person did that. " Not, "Here"s what we want to happen. "R01;" State Rep. Skip Rollins, a Republican from Sullivan County, said he can"t wait for Wednesday to arrive. "The advertisements will end, the 20 phone calls a night are going to end and everything will go back to normal," Rollins said, adding: "Enough is enough; it"s time for it to be over. " Judges, without Voters, there will be no America! 2) HAS A NEGATIVE EFFECT ON DEMOCRACY 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. . https://www.law.cornell.edu... These advertisements are stopping the flow of ideas. They are covering us with a layer. A blanket that stops and chokes the democratic ideals of this country! The only way we can maintain a democracy is by stopping political lies! YOU are living in lies with these ads. I am living with LIES. MY OPPONENT is living a lie as long as these ads exist! If you want more truth and a guaranteed freedom, you will not delay and vote pro! 3) It hurts our nation. According to CNN, It's not that the candidates are incapable of high-mindedness; they are extraordinarily bright. But in recent years the mantra of high-octane campaigns has been that below-the-belt tactics work, and the rationalization has been that a candidate can't accomplish anything worthy if he or she doesn't get elected in the first place. Jim Rutenberg, in The New York Times, under the headline "The Lowest Common Denominator and the 2012 Race for President," wrote last month: "The thinking was that the two presidential candidates, both with Harvard degrees, would finally use their intellectual prowess to discuss the nation's challenges seriously. " That, he wrote, is looking like an unrealistic expectation, and thus "Strategists on both sides are pondering which campaign is best served by the vitriol. " . http://www.cnn.com... YOUR nation, MY nation! The USA. They are all being hurt because of political advertisements. Because of candidates who are feeding US lies. My opponent is believeing these lives. 4) There are no rules. Why does this happen? Due to no rules and restrictions. Thank you. Vote for a better nation.