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that doesn t strike fear in everyone. rand paul s approach is a far cry from lbj s daisy attack ad that ran in 1964 again barry goldwater but still the question remains, does negative campaigning actually really resonate with voters. let s bring in cnn senior media correspondent and host of reliable sources brian stelter. they go negative so fast it s head spinning. it is. it s actually worst than it s been in the past. that s hard to believe. this number caught my eye from kantar media 96% of the ads so far have been negative. 96%. that actually is worst than the past. usually this early in the election cycle, still messages trying to build candidates up. you re used to seeing positive messages that introduce candidates. we ve seen ted cruz for example, running those kinds of positive ads. for the most part found national cable channel like cnn almost all the ad buys have been negative already. that s mostly because it s ....
Harvard health expert john mcdonough said this. there are only two explanations, either they don t understand how the program works, which is hard to imagine, or there is some deliberate misrepresentation here, because they know how politically potent this charge is. well, actually, both things are possible. they cannot understand medicare and know that they re lying about medicare at the same time. today, in nevada, president obama explained what motivates mitt romney s lies. less than 11 weeks, not that i m counting, but we will, we will see the other side spend more money than we ve ever seen on ads. and, you know, these aren t like positive ads, where they re putting out their plan, because they don t really have a plan. ....
Will see the other side spend more money than we ve ever seen on ads. and, you know, these aren t like positive ads, where they re putting out their plan, because they don t really have a plan. and the plan they ve got won t work. mitt romney is a truly relentless liar, but he is really just the inheriter of an old republican tradition of lying about democrats. 60 years ago, the last democratic presidential nominee from illinois, adlai stevenson, said this. if republicans will stop telling lies about the democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. joining me now for more truth about the republicans, robert reich, former labor secretary under president clinton, now a professor of economics at the university of california berkeley, and author of the book, beyond outrage, which will be in stores next week, and ....
obama was asked about the negative ads his campaign was running. here s what he said. first of all, we ve done a whole slew of positive ads that talked exactly about how we need to change our education system, how we need to change our tax code, how we need to rebuild america. how we need to promote american energy. so those just don t get attention in the news. the president said they ve run a whole slew of ads, positive ads. we wanted to we wanted to check and see if maybe we d overlooked a slew of ads either candidate was running. keeping them honest. we checked with c-mag, the consultants who track ad spending for us. they told us last week the obama campaign aired negative ads more than 19,000 times and positive ads fewer than 150 times. less than 1% of their ads were positive. according to other reports, since the general campaign began, as many as 3 in 4 of president obama s campaign ads have been negative. 3 in 4. to be sure, both campaigns are playing har ....
running. here s what he said. first of all, we ve done a whole slew of positive ads that talked exactly about how we need to change our education system, how we need to change our tax code, how we need to rebuild america. how we need to promote american energy. so those just don t get attention in the news. the president said they ve run a whole slew of ads, positive ads. we wanted to we wanted to check and see if maybe we d overlooked a slew of ads either candidate was running. keeping them honest. we checked with c-mag, the consultants who track ad spending for us. they told us last week the obama campaign aired negative ads more than 19,000 times and positive ads fewer than 150 times. less than 1% of their ads were positive. according to other reports, since the general campaign began, as many as 3 in 4 of president obama s campaign ads have been negative. 3 in 4. to be sure, both campaigns are playing hard ball. during the two weeks ending july 9th, about 89% ....