The Republicans countered that their party hardly had the franchise on negative politics.

When reporters raised the issue of negative politics, the Governor asked what was meant by the term.

"I think the American people are tired of negative politics," was his response to reporters' questions on the issue.

He vividly denounced Republican policies as "the negative politics" of the right.

"I don't think that people in this state care very much for negative politics."

America needs candidates who are willing to reject negative politics and campaign in a positive way.

And that is supposed to be negative politics?

They've made it about the negative politics of the governor's race.

Meanwhile he has been talking about the result in Iowa noting that sadly negative politics seem to work.

Mr. Brown described it as the kind of "negative politics" that voters said they hated.