Are attack speeches working as intended?

from PolMach Forums

Dems, Independents, Republicans, I and my opponent all believe reducing unemployment. 

So I attack my opponent in a speech for not believing in reducing unemployment.

The result is that my Dems, Indpendents, and Republicans believe less strongly in reducing unemployment.  My opponent's rep is somewhat affected, too -- he is perceived as believing less strongly in reducing unemployment, but not enough to make this strategy workable.

This seems just plain wrong -- attacking my opponent for not being sincere about reducing unemployment is NOT likely to cause an across the board move to thinking unemployment should not be brought down!

(I have higher higher credibility and much higher charisma than my opponent, and this was in a very friendly state.)

I only wish the game had it right about real life.  If this were true, negative campaigning would not be so effective.  :)

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Reply #1 from PolMach Forums Top

Upon further experimentation, I don't think positive ads work as the text says they do.

The text on the ad creation screen for radio says:

"Change your position on issue; state change 2, national change 1  +1 national awareness increase plus 2% to position per week"

So as a test, I run a radio ad for a couple weeks.  In neither that state nor in other states do the voters change their position.  In that state, voters recognize my position better. (In game terms, my position changes.)  But that does not carry over to other states as far as I can see.  I also see no awareness change in other states, only in the state I placed the ad.

I tried the same thing with a TV and newspaper ad, and got similar results.  TV and radio had the same impact on awareness in-state, none in other states.  Newspaper had lower impact in-state.

???  Things do not seem right here.

Reply #2 from PolMach Forums Top

I had the same problem, I ended up having to pull all my attack ads about my opponent opposing reducing unemployment because eventually democrats and independents were against it it southern states like Arkansas and Missouri

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