Obama, Romney Bash Each Other With 90% Negative Ads
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President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney are decrying negative attacks even as they focus almost all of their television advertisements on bashing one another.
About 89 percent of Obama’s ads in the 14-day period ended July 9 carried an anti-Romney message and 94 percent of Romney’s ads criticized Obama, according to New York-based Kantar Media’s CMAG, which tracks advertising. The Democratic president’s campaign ran more than twice as many negative spots as Romney during the period, 37,022 to 13,962, CMAG data show.