Editor Note

I've tried to do my best not to cover the trash and smear politics that has been thrown out by both campaigns during this election. Obviously both candidates have failed to live up to there promises of running a strictly, 100% civil and issue based campaign.  It has been cleaner than many previous elections and people that say otherwise weren't around for, at the very least, the Nixon election years (that isn't to solely blame Nixon by any means, simply his election years).


There are so many staunch differences on the issues (in their policies) that attacks on anything but policy are, excuse me, rather should be useless. Well I was watching FOX News Sunday w/Chris Wallace today and was struck by what Karl Rove had to say as I agreed 100% with his main point which was that both campaigns are going too far in attack ads and that there has been a childish air to them (excerpts without his specific examples):

Both campaigns are making a mistake, and that is they are taking whatever their attacks are and going one step too far.

— similarly gone one step too far, and sort of attributing to...things that are, you know, beyond the 100-percent-truth test.

They don’t need to attack each other in this way. They have legitimate points to make about each other that are beyond, you know, the…

But both campaigns ought to be careful about it. They ought to — there ought to be an adult who says, “Do we really need to go that far in this ad? Don’t we make our point and won’t we get broader acceptance and deny the opposition an opportunity to attack us if we don’t include that one little last tweak in the ad?”