11.   After a disastrous venture into negative campaigning in South Carolina, McCain withdrew his negative ads and called on Bush to do the same.

12.   After all, who would even think of running a slashing negative ad?

13.   Aides said the senator had no second thoughts about his decision last week to pull a sharply negative ad against Bush off the air.

14.   After weeks of being bombarded with negative TV ads, even some political junkies are nearing the limit of their tolerance.

15.   Alexander has already begun running campaign ads in the state and said Dole had begun running negative ads against him.

16.   Buchanan and Alexander generally avoided negative ads in the closing days of the campaign, and benefited from it.

17.   Bush signed a Texas right-to-carry law that could be the subject of a wickedly effective negative ad campaign.

18.   Bush told the volunteers that Richards is running yet another negative ad about him, while he has run a positive campaign that talks about the issues.

19.   Bush immediately accused McCain of being first to break a promise not to run negative ads.

20.   Bush said the ad will not run, and repeated his vow not to run negative ads.