Clinton ran ads attacking Obama for refusing to debate, but Obama vastly outspent her on 30-second spots. In fact, chances are that more voters learned of Obama’s refusal to debate in Wisconsin from ...

The contest for Congress in District 2 offers two qualified candidates. I have supported Colin Van Ostern in his past state campaigns, and he is qualified to sit in Congress. However, in this campaign ...

Newt Gingrich is finally breaking his pledge to run a positive campaign -- what took him so long? In December, Gingrich not only promised to run a "respectful and constructive" campaign, he said he'd ...

I used to wonder why the followers of one group of Orem politicians wrote such negative and untrue things in their letters to the editor. I get it now; it’s called negative campaigning. This political ...

Rough and tumble. Hammer and tongs. In the race for this year’s Republican nomination, Donald Trump has not hesitated to attack and ridicule many of his opponents, and some of them have teed up ...

A supposed advantage of ranked choice voting is that the system produces positive campaigns, focusing on issues and solutions rather than personalities. As Territorial Gov. Lew Wallace famously put it ...

I apologize for not explaining the concept of “Negative Campaigning” well enough in my last letter to the editor. I am now capitalizing Negative Campaigning to underscore that this is more than just a ...

As she sits in the homestretch of her presidential campaign, Vice President Kamala Harris has followed in the footsteps of many of her political predecessors by labeling her opponent as a “fascist.” ...

Shame on us. Negative campaigning works. Misleading statements get enshrined as if they were the standalone truth. If this stuff didn’t work, they wouldn’t do it.

MANILA, Philippines — The Commission on Elections (Comelec) can’t stop negative campaigning because it is allowed by law, ...

I just received an attack phone call against congressional candidate Adelita Grijalva. The caller refused to identify the candidate on whose behalf he was calling. I was undecided until this call, but ...