I don't think people in Hawaii like negative ads, whether it's done by an independent group or whether it's done by the campaign itself.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There's a reason people run negative ads... it's because they work.
The voters of Hawaii have said loud and clear that it's not money that wins elections.
People spend money on negative campaigning because it works.
It saddens me to know that I jeopardized the welfare of the kind people of Hawaii, a community that I love and call my home.
I'm not against T.V. advertising for campaigns, but we need to emphasize field campaigning much more than we do.
Negative campaigning is wrong.
In my home state of Maine, we've seen out-of-state groups with anonymous donors spend millions of dollars to campaign against issues that don't fit their agenda.
Sad to say, negative advertising really works.
It just happened that the course of the campaign went negative we actually went positive for a little over a week and you do the tracking of poll numbers and it hurt us. So the public responded to those type of ads.
A lot of our Democratic consultants have fallen into the self-defeating prescription that the candidate that runs the most negative ads wins. I have a new theory: Positive is the new negative.