11.   Atwater was not the originator of negative campaigns, negative advertising or divisive politics.

12.   Both candidates are running sharply negative campaigns.

13.   Both men spent enormous sums on an almost relentlessly negative campaign fueled by huge amounts of soft money.

14.   A frequent example involves hiding the true source of a negative campaign mailer.

15.   Aggressively negative campaigns, he said then, always had worked and always would.

16.   Bush then went on to wage a relentlessly negative campaign, smearing his rival Michael Dukakis as unpatriotic and weak.

17.   Buchanan seemed to be preparing his supporters for a tough campaign by saying he would be the target of well-financed negative advertising campaigns.

18.   But at another moment Alexander lashed out at Dole for running a negative campaign and said the Kansan would lead Republicans to certain defeat in the November election.

19.   But in recent years they have increasingly been used to fund negative advertising campaigns against candidates on behalf of the parties.

20.   But political hired guns for both candidates have staged such a relentlessly negative campaign that many voters are chilling out.