This must be the year of the negative campaign.

And 56 percent said he was running a negative campaign.

For the record, neither candidate views his television advertising campaign as negative at all.

The 2002 governor's race is considered by some to have been the most negative campaign in the state's history.

"And the one consistent thing is that he will go down in the history books for the most negative campaigns."

We need these guys to defeat Obama, who is likely to run a very negative campaign.

Mr. Bush said he was not running a negative campaign.

"I did not want to run a negative campaign."

He tried again two years later, in a negative campaign that won him just 42 percent of the vote.

If there was ever anyone who deserved to have a negative campaign run against him, particularly on the issue of education, it is the governor.