Nicholas Narducci Jr. has served on the Providence City Council for 16 years and understands, he says, the workings of Democratic primaries – particularly that nasty part where candidates pummel each ...

During the waning days of the election campaigns for governor and U.S. senator, I received an inordinate amount of correspondence lamenting the outrageous, demagogic, disingenuous, negative ads, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Some candidates for federal office in Connecticut are willing to lay down their arms for a more positive election season. State House Speaker Chris Donovan, D-Meriden, earlier this week started the ...

Penn is the founder and CEO of The Stagwell Group and formerly EVP Microsoft, CEO of Burson-Marsetller, and top advisor to President Bill Clinton. It’s quite popular to condemn negative advertising.

If you are one of those Americans who cringe every time they see a negative political ad on television, John G. Geer is not your cup of tea. Geer, a Vanderbilt University political scientist, has set ...

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 ...