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Early on in the campaign, Buchanan's campaign ads attacked Bush for his broken "Read my lips: no new taxes" promise from the 1988 election; following his unexpectedly strong showing in the New Hampshire primary, he also began targeting Bush on social issues, billing himself as the candidate of social conservatives in campaign ads aired before ...
A CBS News/New York Times poll showed that of all of the political ads of the 1988 presidential campaign, this one had the greatest impact on respondents. The percentage of poll respondents who felt Bush was "tough enough" on crime rose from 23 percent in July 1988 to 61 percent in late October 1988 while the proportion saying Dukakis was "not tough enough" on crime rose from 36 to 49 percent ...
In that year's Iowa caucus, held on February 8, 1988, Bush finished in third, behind winner Dole and runner-up Robertson. Bush's support then began to deteriorate, partly because former Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. had recently endorsed Dole. The Bush campaign then decided to produce an attack ad against Dole. Ailes got the idea to ...
Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) is accusing the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s (AIPAC) super PAC, United Democracy Project, of distorting a photo of her in mailers pressing against her ...
More than 21 years after the Sept. 11 attacks, new details of how President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney reacted that day as in the lead-up and aftermath are now public. Bush and ...
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Beginning on September 21, 1988, the Americans for Bush arm of the National Security Political Action Committee (NSPAC), under the auspices of Floyd Brown, began running a campaign ad entitled "Weekend Passes," using the Horton case to attack Dukakis. The ad was produced by media consultant Larry McCarthy, who had previously worked for Roger Ailes.
Studies claim that 82% of Americans dislike attack ads, and 53% believe that the "ethics and values" of election campaigns have worsened since 1985. [27] The voting public see attack ads as an element of smear campaigning. [28] Other research indicates that voters are open to candidates attacking each other if the issues in question are ...