The dark art of negative ads
One reason so many campaign contributions end up funding negative advertisements  all that footage of a teenage Mitt Romney shaving the heads of gay classmates or young Barack Obama heading off with his lunchbox to a madrassa in Indonesia  is because the pleasure of elections is to say no to some person or idea.
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