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Comments on the negative campaign strategies by U.S. presidential candidates John Kerry and George W. Bush. Effect of negative campaigning on the legitimacy of the entire electoral process; Kerry's accusation against Bush of dishonesty and incompetence in the prosecution of the Iraq war; Bush's personal attacks on Kerry's character.

Reports that the U.S. Federal Election Commission on September 9, 2004 denied a request by Citizens United, an independent advocacy group, to use unregulated contributions to pay for television and radio commercials promoting a documentary and a book critical of Senator John Kerry.

Reports on a political advertisement conceptualized by the campaign staff of U.S. President George W. Bush aimed at Democratic rival Massachusetts senator John Kerry. Theme of the television advertisement.

The article reports on the showing by supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump of a violent video portraying a fake Trump killing political opponents and journalists during a pro-Trump group meeting in October 2019. Also cited are some of the supporters like website MemeWorld creator Logan Cook, how the meme creators make money by running advertisements on YouTube, and the comment of White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham on the memes.

The article reports on the move by U.S. President Donald Trump to resume his attacks against his alleged opponents instead of calling for reconciliation amidst the pipe bomb incidents in the country. Also cited are the alleged role of Trump's divisive and violent language on the attacks, Trump's criticism of the media, and the moves by Republican candidates like Martha McSally to mimic Trump's style in the campaign trail.

The article discusses the debate between Democratic U.S. Representative of Texas Beto O'Rourke and the U.S. Senator Ted Cruz in the campaign for U.S. Senate, including O'Rourke's invectives against Cruz. An overview of public opinion polls in Texas on the election for U.S. Senate is provided.

The article reports on a tangle of inquiries and agendas in an investigation conducted by the officials of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee concerning the Russia's campaign to disrupt the 2016 U.S. Presidential elections.

The article reports that several legislative bodies in the United States are working on laws that would limit or ban prerecorded political campaign telephone messages. The article explains that almost two-thirds of registered voters throughout the U.S. receive prerecorded telephone messages from various political campaigns, which are designed to either promote a candidates record or distort the record of the candidates opposition.

This article focuses on controversy over an advertisement financed by the U.S. Republican National Committee aimed at U.S. Representative Harold E. Ford, Jr., a black man running for U.S. Senator in Tennessee. Even in a year of negative campaign advertising, this commercial caused debate. It portrays a white woman saying she met Ford at a "Playboy party," and she asks Ford to call her. Reactions from the NAACP, Ford and Ford's Republican opponent, Bob Corker, are discussed. INSET: THE AD CAMPAIGN.

The author reports that many political analysts have been struck by the ferocity of the personal attacks between the candidates for U.S. senator from New Jersey, State Senator Thomas H. Kean, Jr. and his Democratic opponent, Senator Robert Menendez. The candidates are expected to ease up on personal attacks with two weeks left in the election.

The article looks at the use of negative campaign advertisements among Republicans and Democrats across the United States. These accusations have varied from special interests to bad debts to hiring illegal immigrants. Democrats tend to focus on Republicans' political records while Republicans lash out on a candidate's personal background. Some officials say that the negative advertisements discourage voter turnout, but analysts say that these advertisements concentrate more on policy than positive ones.

This article discusses the criticism of Mark Green, a candidate for attorney general of New York in the Democratic primary, by U.S. Representative Charles B. Rangel who endorsed Andrew M. Cuomo and criticized Green for his negative campaign. Many Democrats believe that such negativity undermines the party's objective in defeating the Republican candidate, Jeanine F. Pirro. Green, who still has a chance in the primary, says that he is merely pointing out differences between himself and Cuomo.

This article describes the use of blogs by political candidates in the Connecticut senatorial campaign between Joseph I. Lieberman and Ned Lamont. The blog sites are being used by the candidates to attack each other. Lieberman recently took Lamont to task for owning stock in defense contractor Halliburton, but the tactic backfired as another blog revealed Lieberman's ownership of stock in a mutual fund that has Halliburton stock. The candidates' Web sites contain links to some of the blogs.

The article reports that two years after Senator John Kerry's failed presidential bid, he is still fighting with the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth group who ran a smear campaign against him. Members of the group continue to repeat their claims about Kerry's military service in the Vietnam War on television talk shows and at events to raise money for Republican causes. Kerry and supporters are compiling a dossier to refute each of the Swift boat group's claims. INSET: Kerry's New Evidence.

The article focuses on Iraqi politics in the final days before the December 2005 elections. The political campaign is both more ruthless and more sophisticated than anything yet seen in Iraq. Some candidates have been killed. Sunni Arabs are campaigning fiercely and voter turnout is expected to be higher than the January elections. The winners will create Iraq's first full-term government since the Iraq War began. Their task will be to unify an increasingly fractious and violent nation. Any U.S. plan to reduce troop levels in the country will depend on the success of the government's effort.

The article focuses on liberal Democrat Senator Jon S. Corzine of New York, a former Wall Street executive, who appears to be leading Douglas R. Forrester in the race to become New Jersey's governor. If Corzine's lead holds, the state's political focus will turn to Corzine's selection of a replacement in the Senate. Contenders include Richard J. Codey, the acting governor, and two Democratic congressmen, Robert Menendez and Robert E. Andrews. The campaigns of Corzine and Forrester were so costly and vitriolic that many voters said they would have preferred voting for Codey, who replaced James E. McGreevey as governor.

Reports that allegations have been made against New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's allies for unethical strategy in the mayoral race. The issue of linking Fernando Ferrer to former Mayor David N. Dinkins and using race as a tactic to sway black voters; The comments of Jerrold L. Nadler of Manhattan and Gregory W. Meeks of Queens concerning the Republican Party, Bloomberg campaign, and Vito Fosella.

Focuses on Fernando Ferrer, a Democratic candidate for mayor in New York City. Indication that professional pollsters are asking voters questions that are biased against him; Uncertainty about who commissioned the telephone survey which used a tactic called "push polling"; Views of New York University graduate student, Hannah Clark, and others about negative campaigning.

Suggests that Fernando Ferrer's Democratic rivals in New York City's mayor's race fear that any attempt to damage Ferrer could do greater damage to themselves or their campaign strategies. Ferrer's steady lead in opinion polls; Challenges to Ferrer from candidate Anthony D. Weiner, who has been running in last place; Why City Council Speaker Gifford Miller would have the most at stake were he to attack Ferrer; Problems with the campaign of candidate C. Virginia Fields; Strategies of the candidates, including Miller's defensive political approach.

Comments on the effectiveness of the campaign efforts of the Republican party to discredit the candidacy of Democratic presidential nominee, John Kerry. Strategy of the Bush administration to focus on Kerry's credentials and ideology using television advertisement spanning three months; Claim by pollsters and political analysts of the failure of the campaign to break the credibility of Kerry; Success of the Bush administration in plating doubt on Kerry's convictions.

Discusses the presidential campaigns in the U.S. Negative campaigning between John Kerry and President George W. Bush; Criticism of citizens on negative campaigning; Campaign style of presidents from the eighteenth century up to the latest.

The article focuses on an interview with former U.S. President Bill Clinton, wherein he blamed Republicans who hope to undercut his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential bid and a voracious political news media for the furor on her use of a private email account and server while she was secretary of state.

The article reports that the $879,000 advertisement campaigns by the coalition New York Is Not For Sale against New York City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn have influenced the primary elections on September 10, 2013, which resulted in Quinn finishing third in the poll.

The article focuses on the negative campaigns of candidates for 2013 primary election in New York, including republican mayoral candidate John A. Catsimatidis, Democrat comptroller candidate Scott M. Stringer, and Democrat mayoral candidate William C. Thompson Jr.

BURLINGTON, Iowa -- With his candidacy battered by negative campaign ads and a disappointing showing in the Iowa caucuses, Newt Gingrich is adjusting his strategy to rescue his ailing campaign, aggressively swatting back at Mitt Romney, whose supporters have painted him into the box of a Washington influence-peddler. Tired, frustrated and irritated, by his own account, Mr. Gingrich heartily agreed when a television interviewer asked him Tuesday if he was calling Mr. Romney a liar in claiming to be a conservative. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

THE CAUCUS, the politics blog of The New York Times, convened a virtual roundtable of voters last Tuesday to discuss what they hoped to hear in the presidential debate that night. Turned off by negative campaigning, the voters said they wanted John McCain and Barack Obama to address issues like the economy and health care. ''I just want to see the candidates debate the actual issues and how each would handle them so the public can decide,'' said Joel Rittenhouse, a student at Ohio Northern University in Ada, Ohio. ''I wish the smear campaigns could end and true debates could begin.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In the summer of 2004 the conservative gadfly Jerome R. Corsi shot to the top of the best-seller lists as co-author of ''Unfit for Command,'' the book attacking Senator John Kerry's record on a Vietnam War Swift boat that began the larger damaging campaign against Mr. Kerry's war credentials as he sought the presidency. Almost exactly four years after that campaign began, Mr. Corsi has released a new attack book painting Senator Barack Obama, the Democrats' presumed presidential nominee, as a stealth radical liberal who has tried to cover up ''extensive connections to Islam'' -- Mr. Obama is Christian -- and questioning whether his admitted experimentation with drugs in high school and college ever ceased. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports on the negative campaigning of Republican candidate Mike Huckabee in the U.S. Presidential elections. Huckabee told reporters that he had made a negative television commercial against his opponent Mitt Romney and showed it to the newsmedia. Later he changed his mind about showing it on television. However, his anti-Romney message had already received free publicity from the media.

The article presents information on the negative political campaigns of U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney against presidential candidate Mike Huckabee. Romney is planning to run a commercial advertisement that highlights Huckabee's supports to in-tuition benefits and taxpayer-financed scholarship for illegal immigrants while he was a governor of Arkansas.

The article reports on the advertising campaign by a Republican abortion-rights group against U.S. 2008 presidential candidate Mitt Romney. The campaign, both in print and electronic media, has accused Romney as a flip-flopper on the issue. The advertisements highlight some of the statements of the candidate on the issue.

The article offers world news briefs. The British University and College Union said that its members' proposed boycott of Israeli academic institutions would be illegal. Thousands of people protested against the arrest of Georgia's former defense minister, Irakli Okruashvili. Mexico will pass constitutional amendments to limit negative campaigns in elections.

The article reports that Mexico's Congress is considering to bring changes to the country's election laws. The changes are aimed at controlling negative campaigns and keeping businesses and individuals from influencing the elections. However, some groups have charged that the new laws will gave way an authoritarian style of government.

The article presents the author's comments on certain ideologies used by commentators in various television programs related to the U.S. election held in 2006. One of the ideology assumes that politics is local. The author says that politics is no more local. Voters in Mishawaka and La Porte, Indiana were swayed by politics in Iraq. Another ideology says that the political campaign of the election was the most negative campaign. Author says that negative campaign has begun with democracy.

The article focuses on negative campaigning of various political candidates for Minnesota's vacant Senate seat. In the campaigns Democratic candidate Amy Klobuchar has launched a negative campaign against Mark Kennedy. In response Kennedy attacked Klobuchar, a district attorney, for the rising crime rate in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The article reports that U.S. President George W. Bush is running a negative campaign for the U.S. Congressional elections in November 2006 to salvage the control of the Republican Party in the U.S. Congress. The president is spreading the notion that the defeat of the Republican Party in the election would be the victory of the enemies of the U.S.

The article focuses on a political campaign advertisement which has a racist appeal to the voters of Tennessee. The advertisement is directed at Representative Harold Ford, African-American Democratic candidate from Tennessee for the U.S. senate. The advertisement remained on the air, despite assurances from Republican sponsors.

The article focuses on a political campaign advertisement which has a racist appeal to the voters of Tennessee. The advertisement is directed at Representative Harold E. Ford, a Democratic candidate from Tennessee for the U.S. senate. Scott Howell produced the advertisement, who in 2004 produced an advertisement for U.S. President George W. Bush.

The article reports on the results of public opinion polls about the race for the presidency in Mexico. Polls have showed that the race has tightened after a barrage of negative campaign advertisements aimed at destroying front-runner, Andrés Manuel LCpez Obrador.

Prefaces a comment on current events and New York City politics with a scenario depicting an indecisive God. His conversation in a diner, choice of food, and change in gender; Topics including the New York City mayoral race, the Gulf Coast hurricane, and negative campaigning.

Reports on the criticism hurled against New York City Council Speaker Gifford Miller for negative campaigning by Democratic Representative Anthony D. Weinner, a congressman building a campaign for mayor in New York City. Reaction to the lines of attacks distributed by the Miller camp; Vision of the congressman on his mayoral campaign; Criticism on how the administration of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg managed the boroughs outside Manhattan.

Reports that the sparring has begun between Democratic candidates running for mayor in New York City. Release of an internal memo from the campaign of City Council Speaker, Gifford Miller in which a step by step approach to attacking his opponents is outlined; Concern of Democrats that the campaign will divide the voters and end up with the re-election of Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Fears of a voter backlash for Miller; Details of the memo which is now being disavowed by the Miller camp.

Focuses on Hispanic voters in the U.S. Observation that U.S. President George W. Bush won 44 percent of the HIspanic vote in the 2004 election, more than any Republican presidential candidate in three decades; Reference to Latino influence on popular culture and the American mainstream; Possibility that Hispanics may be the new swing voters; Signs of change in a once-solid Democratic bloc; The different strategies of the two parties in appealing to Hispanic voters; Issue of patriotism; Impact of negative advertisements by the Bush campaign.

Comments on television and the 2004 U.S. presidential election. Efforts of President George W. Bush, who calls himself a war president, to cast himself as a hero; Bush's claims concerning the War on Terror; Issue of the administration creating a mood of fear; Topic of John Kerry and his war service in Vietnam; Attitudes of Americans; Personality differences between Bush and Kerry; Intent of Bush and others to smear Kerry's Vietnam record.

Suggests that many newly registered U.S. voters are so-called wild cards whose uncertain allegiances could tip the presidential election vote in swing states. How such voters have become the focus of both parties; The rising number of new voters nationwide; Role of registration drives, largely by Democratic groups; Significance of the new voters' potential to decide the election; Question of whether the new voter registrants will actually vote; Examples of newly registered voters in Ohio; Democrats' criticism of the Republican antifraud campaign; How, for Democrats, college students have been an important source of new voters.

Focuses on the U.S. 2004 judicial elections. The partisan nature of these elections; The sharp rise in campaign spending; Negative aspects of political advertising; Warnings of many lawyers and legal scholars that the negativism of these campaigns threaten the reputation, independence and integrity of the judiciary; Overview of various races; Discussion of advertisements which disclose candidates' positions on legal issues.

Focuses on the statements of former President George Bush regarding the war record of Senator John Kerry. Claim of Bush that the campaign advertisements attacking Kerry is compelling; Assertion that his son, President George W. Bush had been victimized by independent political groups; Speech of the former president at a rally for veterans.

Reports that Benjamin L. Ginsberg, national counsel for U.S. President George W. Bush's re-election campaign, resigned after acknowledging that he provided legal advice to a veterans group that has leveled unsubstantiated attacks on Senator John Kerry's Vietnam War record. Response of Republican Senator John McCain, a Vietnam war veteran; Excerpt from Ginsberg's resignation letter; Eagerness of the Bush campaign to put the issue behind it as it heads into the Republican National Convention; Charges by the Kerry campaign that Bush was using the veterans as a front for negative campaigning; Attempt of former Senator Max Cleland to deliver a letter asking Bush to condemn the television commercials against Kerry by the Swift boat group; How Ginsberg's work for the veterans group is the latest Republican tie to emerge, and the most politically significant. INSET: A Scarred Campaign Veteran, Caught in a New Crossfire.

Presents letters to the editor on election-related topics in the United States published on the August 2004 issue of "The New York Times." "President Urges Outside Groups to Halt All Ads," which criticize U.S. President George W. Bush on his late decision to stop all the attack ads; "The Vietnam Passion," which rebuke David Bruke's focused of John Kerry's alleged absence of conviction and passion; "Fahrenheit 9/11," which explores the issue behind the motion picture.

Comments on the responsibility of U.S. President George W. Bush in stopping the negative campaigns against presidential candidate, John Kerry. Leader of the partisan group which attacks Kerry's Vietnam war service; Criticism on Bush's decision to condemn the stealth-party activities; Views of the White House on John Kerry negative advertisements.

Reports that Benjamin L. Ginsberg, the U.S. President George W. Bush campaign's top outside lawyer, gave legal advice to the group of veterans attacking Senator John Kerry's Vietnam War record and antiwar activism. Ginsberg's agreement to help the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth; Denial of Bush's campaign aides of any connection with the group; Background on Ginsberg; How Ginsberg is the second individual associated with Bush's campaign who has acknowledged working with Swift Boat Veterans; Comments of Ginsberg.