http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/16/politics/campaign/16POLL.html?pagewanted=2Nation's Direction Prompts Voters' Concern, Poll Finds
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Nearly two-thirds of respondents said it was unacceptable for candidates to use images from the World Trade Center's destruction in political advertisements. Mr. Bush is running an advertisement that shows the aftermath of the attack on Sept. 11, 2001, and has refused to take it off the air in the face of criticism by Mr. Kerry's allies, firefighters and some families of victims.
"They shouldn't exploit what happened to make a political issue," said Nan McNeill, 56, a Republican ranch owner in Tonopah, Ariz. "The fact that it happened is something that no one can deny, but no political party can actually say this is what should have been done or shouldn't have been done, so I don't think that it should be an issue at all...."