Who is running the more negative campaign?

[theforthdrive]

Being a Machiavellian at heart I believe this is what people want. 100% of the time I have disagreed with someones vote on an election, this year or past, the response is.... you would vote for this and list off negative things about the other major party opposition. Never once has someone tried to talk me into their candidate with the good things they offer. Literally 100% of the time its all the bad about the other. But my vote for the nastier major party candidate this time is McCain. Before I stopped caring about these two I went to both candidates youtube pages to see what they wanted me to know about them. McCains was far worse. I honestly thought some of it insulted my intelligence at how bad the propaganda was.

[maladroit]

mccain's own campaign workers think he is too negative:


Dozens Of Call Center Workers Walk Off Job In Protest Rather Than Read McCain Script Attacking Obama

October 27, 2008

Some three dozen workers at a telemarketing call center in Indiana walked off the job rather than read an incendiary McCain campaign script attacking Barack Obama, according to two workers at the center and one of their parents.

Nina Williams, a stay-at-home mom in Lake County, Indiana, tells us that her daughter recently called her from her job at the center, upset that she had been asked to read a script attacking Obama for being "dangerously weak on crime," "coddling criminals," and for voting against "protecting children from danger."

Williams' daughter told her that up to 40 of her co-workers had refused to read the script, and had left the call center after supervisors told them that they would have to either read the call or leave, Williams says. The call center is called Americall, and it's located in Hobart, IN.

"They walked out," Williams says of her daughter and her co-workers, adding that they weren't fired but willingly sacrificed pay rather than read the lines. "They were told [by supervisors], `If you all leave, you're not gonna get paid for the rest of the day."

The daughter, who wanted her name withheld fearing retribution from her employer, confirmed the story to us. "It was like at least 40 people," the daughter said. "People thought the script was nasty and they didn't wanna read it."

A second worker at the call center confirmed the episode, saying that "at least 30" workers had walked out after refusing to read the script.

"We were asked to read something saying [Obama and Democrats] were against protecting children from danger," this worker said. "I wouldn't do it. A lot of people left. They thought it was disgusting."

This worker, too, confirmed sacrificing pay to walk out, saying her supervisor told her: "If you don't wanna phone it you can just go home for the day."

The script coincided with this robo-slime call running in other states, but because robocalling is illegal in Indiana it was being read by call center workers.

Representatives at Americall in Indiana, and at the company's corporate headquarters in Naperville, Illinois, didn't return calls for comment.