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Presidential Race Turned Sharply Negative After Iowa, Analysis Shows
More than half of the presidential election ads over the past week carried a negative message.
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The race for the Republican presidential nomination has taken a markedly negative turn as candidates flood New Hampshire airways with attacks on their opponents less than a week before the nation's first primary.
More than half the ads running in New Hampshire over the past seven days, ending Wednesday, carried negative messages about Republican candidates, according to an analysis of Kantar Media's CMAG data by Bloomberg Politics analyst Ken Goldstein. By comparison, of the political ads broadcast in the week before the Feb. 1 Iowa caucuses, less than 30 percent of ads were negative.