{"id":339,"date":"2007-04-20T23:14:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-20T22:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=339"},"modified":"2007-04-20T23:14:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-20T22:14:00","slug":"negative-campaigning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/negative-campaigning\/","title":{"rendered":"Negative campaigning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/uploaded_images\/broke-717995.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/uploaded_images\/broke-717987.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Compared to Danish elections campaigns, the British ones are typically very negative.  I can understand it makes good sense in a two-party system using <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/First-past-the-post\">first-past-the-post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, I fail two see it really works when there are more than two parties with a chance of getting elected, and in particular with a proportional system like <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mixed_member_proportional_voting\">the one used for the Scottish Parliament<\/a>.  Just look at the photo here: It&#8217;s quite clear that something horrible will happen, and if you read the text underneath, it&#8217;s also clear that the intended culprit is the SNP, but it isn&#8217;t  underlined very strongly that the suggestion is to vote Labour instead.  One could quite feasibly see this and decide to vote for the Tories or the LibDems instead.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t understand why people don&#8217;t go on study tours to countries with proportional representation to get some ideas about how to campaign instead of continuing with the old-style negative campaigning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compared to Danish elections campaigns, the British ones are typically very negative. I can understand it makes good sense in a two-party system using first-past-the-post. However, I fail two see it really works when there are more than two parties with a chance of getting elected, and in particular with a proportional system like the one used for the Scottish Parliament. Just look at the photo here: It&#8217;s quite clear that something horrible will happen, and if you read the text underneath, it&#8217;s also clear that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,101,159,130,139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-denmark","category-election","category-en","category-politics","category-scotland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}