“These two will be remembered for running the most pathetically negative campaigns in the nation’s history.”
“It will be the most negative, because Democrats will finally play offense where they never have before!”
“And 2016 will be more so. Citizens United has opened the floodgates for negative ads that push and step on the line of accuracy, with candidates left with relatively clean hands.”
“These two nominees, and campaigns, don’t like each other and—more important—think they are both right on how to fix America.”
“Money in untold amounts breeds untold negativity.”
“The way of the world almost demands it. Positive speeches get one 30-second clip a day if you are lucky.”
“The Republicans will lie about everything to try to taint the true record of this great president, trying to work with a Congress whose only goal is to see him lose in November.”
“This president has been more disrespected than any other.”
“They say that every year, and they’re right.”
“Obama has few successes to tout, and Romney has no core message or plan to sell. That leaves both defaulting to nearly a 100 percent negative campaign.”
No
“Not a chance. We hear this talk every four years.”
“It’s only worse because we care currently living through it.”
“Remember Willie Horton? Remember Swift Boat Veterans for ‘Truth’? ”
“The vitriol coming at Obama in 2008 was worse: Muslim, terrorist friend, etc.”
“The campaigns against [Michael] Dukakis and [John] Kerry were both as nasty as stuff we’re seeing now. The volume is up, and, of course, the Obama guys are not just taking punches; they’re throwing them, too.”
“Face it, politics is dirty.”
When all is said and done, do you think this will be the most negative presidential campaign you’ve ever seen?
Republicans (162 votes)
Yes: 68%
No: 32%
Yes
“It is all Obama and his team have.”
“Because everything is at stake and all sides will unleash.”
“When choosing a pizza place for dinner the other night, my 8-year-old son asserted that one pizza place wasn’t so good. My 10-year-old son countered, comparing this to the incessant political commercials already dominating the airwaves in Iowa, and explained that you should talk about what’s good about the pizza you like, not what is bad about the pizza you don’t like.”
“Obama can’t run on his record, so his only hope is to sling a lot of mud and hope some of it sticks.”
“There once was a penalty to be paid for gross exaggeration or lying. With increased partisanship and weakness of news media, the price of mendacity is much lower today.”
“In [my] swing state, Obama’s ‘Hope and Change’ from 2008 has turned into ‘hop up and change the channel before another attack ad comes on.’ ”
“When the incumbent president starts out as negative as Obama has, the die is cast.”
“Chicago equals hand-to-hand combat campaigns.”
“When have you seen an incumbent go negative so early, so heavily and with such persistence? Answer: You haven’t.”
No
“They are all negative!”
“Who cares? Campaigns use the tactics that work. It is the peanut gallery that obsesses over what is negative.”
“Negativity in campaigns is like physical pain: Whatever you’re experiencing right now is the worst you ever suffered, but only because you can’t remember what’s come before as vividly.”
“The current president has less to run on than Bush in 2004. And unlike Kerry in 2004, Romney (and the super PACs) will punch back.”
“The media likes to say it is the most negative presidential campaign ever, but it is August, and the media are covering themselves instead of focusing on issues.”
“But it well could be by the time we are done.”
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