Politico: The Carpet Bagger Report

Going local, going negative

Posted from The Carpetbagger Report 139 days ago

When it comes to relentlessly negative campaigning, John McCain is setting a very high bar (or a very low bar, I suppose, depending on one’s perspective). We’ve seen attacks from the McCain gang in July that one might ordinarily expect from a 527 group in October. The low-road campaign has been ugly, dishonest, and shameful. And the public has noticed. By a nearly six-to-one margin, voters say Republican presidential candidate John McCain is running a negative campaign against his Democratic rival, Barack Obama, according to the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. Nearly thr... (original story)