House Democrats Aided By Negative Campaigning
By Don | May 14, 2008
While there are a myriad of reasons as to why the Republicans keep losing special elections they aren't being helped by the success of the Democrats getting down and dirty.
The Democrats’ presidential front-runner is promising a high-minded campaign in the fall, but the party’s congressional campaign arm isn’t playing quite so nicely with Republican House candidates and the billionaire conservative who’s supporting them.
In Mississippi’s 1st Congressional District, where voters went to the polls Tuesday in a make-or-break election for the GOP, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee distributed one flier that linked Republican candidate Greg Davis to the Ku Klux Klan and another that accused the Republicans of trying to “play politics with religion and race.”
The GOP for its part prefers not to fight tit for tat and the result is a smaller minority.
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