>The Washington Post article discusses ads run during one week, the week after the Republican convention. The Neilsen link lists raw number of ads run in selected states but says nothing about how many total ads were run or percentage which were negative. Also, both of them only discuss ads. What about what the candidates are saying on the campaign trail? I read the news stories every day and all I hear from McCain and Palin is criticisms of Obama -- he's pals with terrorists, he'll take all your money, he can't handle Al Qauda, ad nauseum. Have you been seeing positive statements about their own candidacy that I have missed?
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>Yes, the Obama campaign has raised more than any in history, both in terms of dollars and number of donors. Do you have a problem with that? All it tells me is a lot of people see enough in Obama's candidacy to contribute money to it. Is there something nefarious in that? Maybe if more people believed in McCain's campaign he wouldn't have to spend all his time whining.

Has he spread the wealth to the other candidates, as he intends to spred the wealth from my pocket to the Democratic fan base?

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>>I think you are missing quite a few of the Obama commercials and robocalls then. perhaps they are not shown in your area...
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>>This study agrees with me:
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>>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/17/AR2008091703581.html
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>>Despite perceptions that Sen. John McCain has spent more time on the attack, Sen. Barack Obama aired more negative advertising last week than did the Arizona Republican, says a study released yesterday.
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>>and this one:
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>>http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/media_entertainment/obama-and-mccains-ads-equally-negative/
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>>Despite finger-pointing from both sides, Barack Obama and John McCain’s presidential campaigns have run almost the same number of negative local campaign ads, Nielsen Monitor-Plus reported Thursday.
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>>Open your eyes Mike. At least be realistic and stop focusing on one single candidate as the victim and the other the evil one. It is a typical campaign (other than the money Obama has to use for his which I heard last night on the news was the highest in history).
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>>>Are you seriously equating the degree of negative campaigning? You must just be yanking my chain. Stirring that pot, as always ;-) McCain and Palin have gone entirely negative. Have they said anything in weeks about what a McCain administration would do? Not that I've heard. All they have been doing is trying to spread increasingly desperate FUD about Obama. Obama, in contrast, didn't even mention McCain in his half hour infomercial last night, according to what I read.
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>>>>It's funny to hear on the news about the 'negative campaigning.' Both sides are doing it. In that sense, it is not any different than previous elections.
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