31.   Dole complained repeatedly during the campaign that the Democrats had spent millions of dollars on negative ads saying that Dole wanted to cut Medicare.

32.   Despite his promise to forego negative ads, Forbes has returned to the tactic in New York.

33.   Earlier in his speech, Alexander took on two of his presidential rivals, Steve Forbes and Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, for running negative ads.

34.   Dollars in negative ads. . . .

35.   Everybody seems to be disgusted with all those negative ads that have been muddying up the political arena this election season.

36.   Exit polls suggested that a voter backlash against negative ads may have hurt Dole, who ran attack ads against Buchanan and Alexander until the eve of the election.

37.   Exit polls indicated that many New Hampshire voters were turned off by the negative ads.

38.   For months, a looming question has been whether Forbes could successfully spend tens of millions of dollars on negative ads without tarnishing himself.

39.   Forbes, who has relied heavily on television advertising, also declined to promise that he would stop aiming negative ads at Dole.

40.   For his part, Dole has in the last few days, sworn off negative ads, at least for the time being.