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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As the 2016 campaigns continue, candidates are spending more on advertising that attacks the other candidates. But who’s getting targeted most by the negative ads? It depends on how you measure that.

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 ...

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 ...

ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. — Harsh voices, doom and gloom music, and unflattering photos. These elements often make up negative campaign ads. Some people in St. Johns County have told First Coast News ...

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.

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 ...

"Negative ads work" has long been political conventional wisdom, but now we have a new case study to prove it. Mitt Romney says he lost the South Carolina primary because he was "vastly outspent with ...