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« TNR personnel move | Main | When you just want to disappear... » Monday, October 23, 2006Low blowsIt's campaign countdown season, so the TV ads are coming fast and furious now. And they will only be more prevalent in the two weeks to go. Every election we have the debate about negative campaigning. But doesn't it seem worse this time? On Friday picketers camped out outside Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate Deval Patrick's house in Milton. Wearing orange jumpsuits, they carried placards declaring themselves "Inmates for Deval Patrick" and mocked him for allegedly being soft on crime. Probably there are plenty of Democratic attacks ads out there -- readers are invited to point them out -- but look at this televised spot, whose approach resembles the jumpsuit guys'. Paid for by the Republican National Committee, as the voiceover announces, it sets out to sully the name of Harold Ford, a Democratic Congressman from Tennessee: Posted by Evan Hughes at 08:11 AM
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