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It's almost over. Which candidate ran the most honest campaign?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Obama definitely ran a cleaner, more honest campaign. McCain used every single tactic to try and sway voters. He even made up total lies and his supporters spread them via email, etc. I think a lot of it was fueled by the McCain supporters. Some McCain supporters were extremely racist and used Baracks religion and ethnicity against him.

  • 1 decade ago

    Great question.

    I think Obama ran a more honest campaign regarding his claims about McCain. Turns out nearly every attack he made against McCain was true, whereas McCain made quite a few comments about Obama that were not

    I SUSPECT McCain ran a more honest campaign when it comes to campaign promises. I don't believe Obama can raise spending, cut taxes, and somehow balance the budget...nor do I believe he intends to.

  • 1 decade ago

    I used to respect McCain, and considered him a better choice in 2000 than Bush, but not anymore. His campaign had no substance, no bearing, no quality, no dignity, only Rovian innuendo, distortion, hyperbole, and vitriolic rhetoric

    McCain, Rove, Limbaugh, Hannity, O'Reilly, and Drudge should take the final chapter from Lee Atwater's life to heart before it's too late:

    http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lee_Atw...

    [quote]

    In a February 1991 article for Life Magazine, Atwater declared:

    My illness helped me to see that what was missing in society is what was missing in me: a little heart, a lot of brotherhood. The '80s were about acquiring -- acquiring wealth, power, prestige. I know. I acquired more wealth, power, and prestige than most. But you can acquire all you want and still feel empty. What power wouldn't I trade for a little more time with my family? What price wouldn't I pay for an evening with friends? It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime. I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul.

    [end quote]

  • 1 decade ago

    Obama, he didn't slander McCain, he spoke the truth about mcCain, using mccains own words, for proof.

    McCain, could show proof on anything, except how he would stoop to anything to win the election.

    words from McCain in Fl.

    On Monday, McCain gave a final airing to unsupported statements and half-baked truths at rallies such as one in Tampa, Fla., where he said:

    _"My friends, if I'm elected president, I won't spend nearly a trillion dollars more of your money. Sen. Obama will."

    THE FACTS: McCain's health care plan alone is estimated to cost $1.3 trillion over 10 years by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, which also estimates that McCain's tax cuts and spending programs would drive up the national debt by $5 trillion in a decade.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Define honesty.

    I think McCain and the republicans, at least in Alabama, have ran a very hateful attack campaign, and I'm sick of seeing their commercials.

    I'd have alot more respect for the republicans, if they would just distance themselves from Bush more, and actually, not use the word liberal as if it's something to not be proud of. Look the word up in a dictionary, it isn't an insult.

  • -K-
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    Freakin' Mccain.

    Source(s): Common Sense.
  • 1 decade ago

    Both lied by omission, and in that have mislead the public. But at least I didn't get anti-McCain literature in my mail that was slanderous. So I give it to Barack. He ran a cleaner campaign. Never mentioned McCain's infidelity, things like that.

  • 1 decade ago

    Don't know, but people usually will say the person they're voting for.For latest coverege check all of the news channels. Some of them have ''fact checks.''

  • 1 decade ago

    Chuck Baldwin, followed by Bob Barr and Ralph Nader, then Cynthia McKinney, then Brian Moore, etc.

    Obama and McCain are probably tied for 13th.

  • 1 decade ago

    definitely McCain. Everything that came out of Obamas mouth was a lie.

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