"Would it change your opinion of {candidate's name here} if

[Jackpine Radical]

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you heard that he/she strangles little kittens for a hobby?

Repeat 6 billion times.

Result: a conditioned link between the mental representation of {the candidate} & a visceral feeling of disgust.

Doesn't matter if it's true, logical or even plausible.

Doesn't even matter if it contains a "not." The neural networks through which Pavlovian conditioning occurs are not big on grammar, just the juxtaposition of the stimulus and the response.

[Populist_Prole]

1. That's known as "push polling" n/t

[fadedrose]

2. Rec'd because it's such a weird OP

Just when you think you've heard everything, somebody "radical" comes up with a new wrinkle..

Keeps us on our toes...

(I seriously think she ever even made a kitty sick much less killed one)

[Jackpine Radical]

3. Oops--I didn't mean this to be about Hillary at all.

In my first version I used her as an example, but I tried to write her out of this version and forgot to remove her name. This isn't about Hillary; it'a about classical conditioning as a negative PR tool.