16 Facts About Campaign advertising

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In politics, campaign advertising is the use of an advertising campaign through the media to influence a political debate, and ultimately, voters.

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2.

The time span over which political campaign advertising is possible varies greatly from country to country, with campaigns in the United States lasting a year or more to places like the UK and Ireland where advertising is restricted by law to just a short period of weeks before the election.

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3.

Political Campaign advertising has changed drastically over the last several decades.

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4.

Campaign advertising did not have to shake a half a million hands or travel the country extensively.

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5.

Campaign advertising won the trust of the American people with his direct approach and subsequently the Presidential election.

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6.

Campaign advertising's attempt proved to be too late, but his neutral style of attack ads against Nixon, featuring white text scrolling across a black background, became what is seen as a fairly common method used in political and product advertising.

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7.

Campaign advertising was so highly successful that he won against Walter Mondale with a 49 to 1 state victory.

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Campaign advertising contrasted these negative ads, with the emotional style commercial used by Ronald Reagan, to capitalize on his connection to the former president.

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9.

The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 addressed the issue of "soft money" or money contributed through political action committees, raised the legal limits of hard money that could be raised for any candidate, and set limits on what funds could be spent on election broadcasts, but it did not mandate verifiability in political campaign advertising.

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10.

The court thus recognized that television Campaign advertising is especially powerful and thus wealthy groups could block out the valid arguments of less wealthy groups and thus distort public debate.

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11.

Japanese election law discourages negative campaign advertising directed at other candidates, parties, or political organizations.

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12.

Secondly, campaign materials in advertising should be presented in an objective, fair and accessible manner and be designed to meet the objectives of the campaign.

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13.

Critics suggest that this limitation of Campaign advertising venue and medium was an attempt by the state to keep standing politicians in office and limit the information available on new candidates.

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14.

Lack of legal definition of political Campaign advertising leads to the ambiguity of its understanding, which generates conflict situations in legal relations of Campaign advertising.

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Direct effects of political campaign advertising include informing voters about candidates' positions and affecting the "preferences and participatory ethos of the electorate".

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One other effect of political campaign advertising includes greater attitude polarization among voters.

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