Advertisements in Politics

I get urgent requests about this frequently "We gotta have more money, to buy more ads! The other guys are outspending us! Money buys success!"

There is some truth to what they are saying. We gotta get the facts before the voters. 

But this easily becomes "The voters are stupid, and we have to fix the facts to make it easier for them to vote our way!" 

It is true that most people are stupid, but using advertisements will only make this worse.