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OPINION

Hey, GOP:
Let's Emulate Obama's Cool

Attack ads worked in 2004. That's not where we're at: Frum

Oct 9, 08 7:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - David Frum plans to vote for John McCain, but with the economy in ruin, anyone who thinks the GOP can win “by banging on about William Ayers and Jeremiah Wright is...to put it mildly...severely under-estimating the electoral importance of pocketbook issues.” These desperate attacks “are... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • negative campaigning • attack ad • Jeremiah Wright • McCain 2008 • Election 2008 • economy • Bill Ayers

OPINION

 Facing Actual Voters 
 Can Be Tall Order 

Candidates won't be as easily able to duck pointed questions in tonight's debate format

Oct 7, 08 2:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - The presidential candidates will be walking into a lion’s den tonight, forced to face those most dangerous of creatures: undecided voters. The town-hall debate could be a “snooze-fest,” writes John Dickerson on Slate, but there’s also a chance “Ponytail Guy”—the town-haller... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • presidential debate • George HW Bush • town hall meeting • Nashville • negative campaigning • Election 2008

McCain Gets Testy in
Des Moines

Chides newspaper editors for questions on Palin, truth of ads

Oct 1, 08 1:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain showed his combative side in a videotaped interview with the Des Moines Register yesterday, taking umbrage at questions about whether Sarah Palin might be inexperienced and whether some of his campaign ads might have stretched the truth. “I have always had 100%, absolute truth, and that's been... More »

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John McCain • negative campaigning • McCain 2008 • Des Moines • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin • McCain-Palin

OPINION


 Noonan: What if 
 Neither Man Is 
 Up to the Job? 

Things will get mean out there

Sep 19, 08 10:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - The election is about to enter a dark, mean period writes Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal, as the country confronts a terrifying possibility: What if neither man is up for the job? Thanks to the economy, anxiety is at a fever pitch, but “I haven’t... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • negative campaigning • Peggy Noonan • Election 2008 • economy

OPINION

 McCain's Lies Cross the Line 

Senator has run a dirty campaign

Sep 18, 08 12:59 PM CDT
(Newser) - Politicians often stretch the truth, but John McCain has taken things to a new level, writes Joe Klein in Time. Journalists usually play softball when criticizing candidates’ falsehoods, but now even the restrained New York Times editorial board is calling McCain a liar. McCain’s campaign has... More »

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John McCain • smear campaign • lying • negative campaigning • McCain 2008

OPINION

 McCain Sheds Honor 
 in Heat of Campaign 

Columnist, a longtime fan of the straight-shooting senator, sorely disappointed

Sep 16, 08 2:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain's dishonesty in this race has turned him into the kind of politician the candidate once professed to hate, writes Richard Cohen—a one-time fan of the Arizona senator—in the Washington Post. McCain’s lies—most blatantly expressed on The View in response to a question about misleading... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • The View • Joy Behar • negative campaigning • Richard Cohen • campaign advertising • Sarah Palin

McCain Running 'Dishonorable' Campaign: Ad

In face of rising GOP tide, Obama camp sharpening attacks

Sep 16, 08 11:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama has launched a new ad accusing John McCain of running a “disgraceful, dishonorable campaign,” part of a wider pushback against Republican attacks, the Washington Post reports. With McCain pulling even in the polls, the campaign held a series of internal strategy meetings, including a rare Sunday... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Joe Biden • Obama 2008 • negative campaigning • attack ad • Election 2008

 After 9/11 Truce, 
 Name-Calling Back On 

McCain 'out of touch,' Obama ad charges; Dem 'disrespectful' to Palin, Mac counters

Sep 12, 08 2:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - Hours after making a joint appearance at a memorial ceremony for the Sept. 11 attacks, John McCain and Barack Obama unleashed harsh new attacks of their own, reports the Chicago Tribune. With the McCain camp blasting Obama as desperate and “disrespectful” to Sarah Palin, the Obama campaign made a... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • political advertising • negative campaigning • Election 2008

 Obama Steps Up 
 Assault on McCain 

Candidate to go on the attack as party frets about Palin

Sep 12, 08 9:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Barack Obama campaign kicks off its leaner, meaner approach today, reports the New York Times, going on the offensive with a New Hampshire speech and new ads in an attempt to wrest momentum back from the GOP. The candidate's strategists say it has long been the plan to get... More »

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Barack Obama • David Plouffe • campaign • negative campaigning • campaigning • Election 2008 • Steve Schmidt

ANALYSIS

 Mac Misleads 
 in Obama Sex-Ed Ad 

Legislation Republican is criticizing meant to protect kindergartners from pedophiles

Sep 10, 08 11:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain’s new campaign ad accusing Barack Obama of voting to teach kindergarten kids the explicit details of sex, is “deliberately misleading,” Margaret Talev notes for McClatchy. While in the Illinois legislature, Obama voted in favor “age-appropriate” sex ed—which for young kids would primarily consist... More »

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Mitt Romney • Barack Obama • John McCain • Illinois • negative campaigning • campaign advertising • Election 2008

Opinion

 Biden & Co.
 Take Cue
 From Rove

Dems' new plan of attack follows map left by GOP spinmeister

Aug 28, 08 12:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - Joe Biden’s speech last night mapped out the new plan of attack for Democrats against John McCain, and it’s positively Rovian, Walter Shapiro writes on Salon. The Democrats went directly for McCain’s biggest strength—national security—and tried to turn it into a weakness. “These times... More »

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Joe Biden • Karl Rove • John Kerry • Democratic National Convention • Bill Clinton • negative campaigning • Election 2008

McCain Borrows Clinton's
'3am' Attack

'Hillary's Right,' new ad proclaims

Aug 26, 08 12:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain has resurrected Hillary Clinton’s “3am” attack ad, and will be running a modified version in several battleground states, USA Today reports. The Republican's ad reruns a portion of Clinton’s, along with clips of Clinton attacking Obama’s experience, and ends with the tag, “Hillary’... More »

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Hillary Clinton • John McCain • negative campaigning • attack ad • McCain 2008

GOP Looks to Rain on Convention Parade

Republicans aim to upstage rival; Dems plan to respond in kind

Aug 26, 08 5:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - The days of the parties giving each other a breather during convention week are long gone, the New York Times reports. As Democrats reveled in Denver yesterday, the Republicans began popping balloons--launching attack ads, holding press conferences underscoring the Clinton-Obama divide, and trotting their candidate out on the Tonight Show.... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Democratic National Convention • negative campaigning • Republican National Convention

OPINION

GOP Playbook: Find Foe's Strength and Attack It


Aug 23, 08 8:06 PM CDT
(Newser) - Republican strategists are as adept as judo masters at turning opponents' strengths against them, Michael Kinsley writes in the Washington Post. With "genius, courage, creativity and utter ruthlessness," they managed to turn John Kerry's Vietnam service into a liability and Michael Dukakis' humble roots into elitism. Now, even... More »

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Barack Obama • John Kerry • Michael Dukakis • negative campaigning • Republican strategist • Republican strategy • political strategy

 Obama Ads
 Hone Attack
 in Key States

Wave of negative ads slams McCain on
the economy

Aug 20, 08 9:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama has launched a wave of hard-hitting ads attacking John McCain ads in key states, the New York Times reports. The ads, reflecting a new get-tough Obama, lambaste McCain for being out of touch with Americans' economic struggles. Some have criticized the ads for misleading voters, but Democratic strategists... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • negative campaigning • attack ad • campaign advertising • campaign issues

OPINION

If You're
Running on Honor, Don't
Tell Lies

GOP falsehoods lead
to 'smear gap': Alter

Aug 19, 08 5:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Never mind merely unflattering attacks; Jonathan Alter addresses the issue of outright falsehoods, as measured by an impartial fact-checking organization, in the two presidential campaigns, and finds the McCain camp has issued many more. The "smear gap"  belies John McCain's vision of himself as an honor-first kind of... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • negative campaigning • attack ad

analysis

Obama Nation Author Has Made Career
of Wild Claims

Here's a look at some of his most outlandish

Aug 14, 08 7:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Author Jerome Corsi, he of the Kerry Swift Boat book and the new attack tome on Barack Obama, has a long history of, um, provocative theories. For instance: The world's oil supplies are nearly infinite because oil constantly replenishes itself. Politico takes a look at some of his more outlandish... More »

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Barack Obama • conservative • negative campaigning • Swift Boating • conservative credentials • Swift Boat Veterans for Truth • Jerome Corsi

OPINION

Mac's Preferred Contest: Obama as Incumbent

Republican can't win
if debate is about him or Bush: Dionne

Aug 11, 08 3:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain is doing perhaps the only thing he can to win this race—casting Barack Obama as the incumbent and attacking him, writes E.J. Dionne Jr. in the Washington Post. It makes sense: People are tiring of the heavy coverage of Obama, it seems, and McCain knows... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • negative campaigning • campaign advertising • Election 2008 • incumbents

Counterpunch Too Weak for Strategists

Strategists urging
Obama to bring tougher attacks on McCain

Aug 7, 08 4:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - After weeks of enduring blistering attacks from John McCain, Barack Obama is launching a counter-attack. His new “Maverick” ad is his sharpest yet, calling McCain out on his similarities to George Bush. But Democratic strategists still don’t think Obama is hitting hard enough, the Washington Post reports.... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Obama 2008 • negative campaigning • attack ad

OPINION

 Obama's Right to Go Negative

Obama stayed cool during primaries, but this is whole new ball game

Aug 7, 08 2:24 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama is going negative on John McCain, something he never did in the primary race against Hillary Clinton. But that doesn’t mean he’s abandoning a winning strategy. The current race is worlds apart from his tête-à-tête with Clinton, Noam Scheiber writes in the New ... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Obama 2008 • negative campaigning • McCain 2008 • Election 2008

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