According to the ad-tracking firm Kantar Media/CMAG, the percentage of Republican primary attack ads increased from 6 percent in 2008 to 50 percent in 2012. What do you think?

"This is great news for the grim voiceover industry."
Jennifer Mangrum • Carbon Setter

“That’s because the nice ads featuring their candidate smiling and happy are much more terrifying.”
John Knight • Systems Analyst
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"It’s really gotten out of control. What was so wrong with the occasional spurious allusion to an opponent’s illegitimate black baby?"
Joseph Reynolds • Unemployed