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Going Dirty explores incidents when negative campaigning has backfired, most often due to non-credible charges or the attackers failure to correctly gauge the sentiments of the electorate, and incidents when negative campaigning has been remarkably successful, which are common enough to explain its persistence as an electoral tactic. I just read your article "The Breakdown of Boycotts" [July 18] and was happy to hear that many of the boycotting efforts of hatemongering so-called Christian organizations like the American Family Association and Focus on the Family have not only failed but perhaps have backfired. Bryan got a shotgun and tried to scare off the wolves by firing into the air, but that strategy backfired. |
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