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So many of the ads for one candidate or the other that I am seeing , simply are not truthful. When I research their claims, I find the ad is knowingly lying. Why are they not prosecuted under truth in advertising? Freedom of speech doesn’t mean you can lie.

You are correct. Political ads do not need to be truthful. They are exempt from truth-in-advertising laws. The reason is simple: political speech, unlike commerce, is protected by the First Amendment.

Here’s just one of many articles on the subject: http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1843796,00.html

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Joshalyn Robinson (shown in the image above) suffered the most dire consequences from someone else’s decision to drink and drive. Now her family has to deal with that grief and loss because of something they could not have foreseen nor prevented. However, there are movements that have been gaining major headway in the battle against drunk driving.

Some of the drunk drivers out there consider themselves “safe drunk-drivers” because they in-fact go under the speed limit and that is only when they have to…. (I have never heard that before………) To tell you the truth, the majority of drunk drivers do not share the same mentality. In fact 50-75% of drunk driving offenders whom had the license suspended continue to drive anyway.

These are the same people who have the mentality to drink and drive 87 times on average before they get caught by the police. That is 87 more times these people not only put their own life in jeopardy, but everyone driving on the road when the made the decision to do such a thing. The fact that in 2008 (just one year in our country) 11,773 people died due to alcohol related crashes is frightening.

The number of people arrested per year due to drunk driving is extremely alarming: 1.46 million were arrested in 2006. people arrested b It is because of people whom have mentalities like those that produce endless amounts of grief for not only the victim(s) but everyone who knew the victim(s).

A Voice for Safer Streets: Stop Drunk Driving

Now that they are really advertising, can we have standards of
truth in campaigns? After all, lies about products in ads aren’t protected by the First Amendment, Are they?

Awwww come on you expect a politician to be "truthful"

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