Quote (Goomshill @ 12 Apr 2017 00:06)
I think whats telling is that the republicans have used fouler moves more effectively
Hillary channeled the hell out of Rove, but black baby maneuver and swiftboating actually won elections because they were planned with low cunning, whereas the muslim-obama thing backfired and so did all the assortments of smears on trump. Russiagate, calling everyone sexist/racist/islamophobic/etc didn't work in november and isn't going to work now. If they're going to sell their souls to satan, the republicans are going to be better at it
^^ Democrats are not used to be in the opposition with so much "injustice" going on from their perspective. I'm not sure about overall effectiveness, difficult to measure and the approval ratings are historically low. I'd contribute that to the poor government and not "effective" opposition.
Russiagate seems to work well though. Really gets ppl emotionally involved.