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At one point the union spent more than $1 million on television advertising attacking the Mayor.

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The line even took out national advertising attacking Curran.

He promised to run a positive campaign but instead has run a barrage of television advertising attacking his rivals.

Not surprisingly, Mr. Wellstone said he expected the advertising attack against him to backfire.

In many states, advocates of tort reform have turned their cause into a populist political rallying cry, with billboards and radio advertising attacking "runaway juries."

Mr. McCain's decision to step up his advertising attacks, declaring himself to be the "only" candidate qualified to serve as commander in chief, was a harbinger.

Though John McCain, like all the presidential candidates, has been free of television advertising attacks by his rivals, he has not escaped negative advertising entirely.

Also today the Bush campaign began broadcasting a new advertising attack in Georgia that brands as "false and misleading" Mr. Buchanan's own campaign commercials.

People for the American Way said that despite White House objections, it would proceed with television advertising attacking the Republican Congress as obsessed with scandal.

During the primary season, Mr. Wyly sponsored a hard-hitting - and widely criticized - advertising attack on Senator John McCain's environmental record.

Mr. Bush's strategists are running positive commercials about the President's second-term agenda in the campaign's final days, dovetailing with negative advertising attacking Mr. Clinton.

Bauer ran newspaper and cable television advertising attacking his Democratic opponent for failing to pay his property taxes on time, and noting an arrest for failure to pay a traffic ticket.

The state party in turn bought more than $700,000 in television advertising attacking Mr. Lazio on his stance on a patients' bill of rights and prescription drug coverage for Medicare recipients.

The group, Citizens for a Strong Ohio, is spending more than $1 million on advertising attacking Judge O'Donnell's opponent, an incumbent Democrat, Alice Robie Resnick.

That contrast is an apparent testament to the effectiveness of Mr. D'Amato's relentless television advertising attacks on Mr. Abrams, who had led him in most polls over the last several months.

The new effort comes as many Democrats have expressed concern that Mr. Kerry is not moving quickly enough to answer President Bush's sustained advertising attack and has not done enough to convey an overarching message.

A bruising advertising attack by Anheuser-Busch that disparaged rival Coors Light beer and questioned its claim to pristine Rocky Mountain integrity was upheld yesterday by a Federal judge in Manhattan.

Speculation has also extended to some from the party's moderate wing, like Mr. Schwarzenegger and Mr. Riordan, the object of a fierce advertising attack by Mr. Davis in last year's Republican primary.

But in the last week, he has been everywhere, leaping into the race with an advertising attack on Mr. Pataki, a Republican, that is so well-financed that Democratic Party challengers can only look on in envy.

But while Mr. Gantt and Mr. Easley debated taxes and other issues this week, Mr. Helms entered the fray with a wave of television and radio advertising attacking both Democrats.

The campaign included the heavy use of negative advertising attacking Cordova, including accusing him of cheating investors out of $1 million in a failed business venture, failing to pay income and business taxes, and living in California.

By his side were labor leaders who had played a critical role in the days before the budget was passed by paying for millions of dollars' worth of advertising attacking the governor's budget and advocating an income-tax surcharge on the wealthy.

Specter's Lead Eroding But Ms. Yeakel's advertising attack, while raising her prospects against her Democratic primary rival, may also account for an erosion of support for Mr. Specter in surveys of likely Republican voters.

But Mr. Barbour found himself in an immediate dispute with labor leaders today over one of the central contentions of his attack: that unions had spent $40 million since last August on "negative television advertising attacking Republicans and Republican ideas."