Over the years many of you have lamented to me and said, “I am so tired of seeing all negative ads with candidates lambasting each other in political campaigns. Why don’t candidates say what they are ...

It's that time again. With the mud flying in the presidential race, pundits, journalists and political observers of all stripes are denouncing the campaign's new, strikingly negative tone. Listening ...

Candidates run misleading and unethical campaign advertisements because they get results, two ASU professors said. Political science professors Kim Fridkin and Patrick Kenney recently conducted a ...

Clever negative advertising works. That is reality. The tactic meets with media and pundit disapproval and spawns accusations of negativity, but the reality is that a clever negative ad can be ...

Former President Trump criticized Fox News in an interview Friday for airing negative political ads attacking him, saying he would appeal directly to media mogul Rupert Murdoch to remove them from the ...

How can John G. Geer, who said he has researched negative ads, be so naive in his support for this form of reckless campaigning ["Those Negative Ads Are a Positive Thing," Outlook, Oct. 12]? I would ...

WASHINGTON -- If John McCain and Barack Obama think their ads blasting each other are persuading undecided voters, they're probably wrong. But negative ads do have an impact, an AP-Knowledge Networks ...

With only 16 weeks until the November election, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are on track to fuel one of most negative presidential campaigns in recent history — whether voters want it or not.

Pundits and commentators are forecasting that this fall's general election will see an avalanche of negative advertising. But as voters gird for the onslaught, political scientists are asking a ...

HAMPTON ROADS, Va. (WAVY) — If you’ve noticed an uptick in negative campaign ads, that’s not your imagination — political experts say we can expect to see a lot more between now and Nov. 4. “There are ...

The formation of a new super PAC backing Ron DeSantis is raising fresh questions about discord between the Florida governor’s official campaign and Never Back Down, the super PAC that has taken a ...

Tuesday saw 50th-anniversary commemorations of “The day the music died,” recalling the 1959 plane-crash deaths of legendary rock ‘n’ rollers Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper. I’m ...