opposition research
oppo research , oppo (Abkürzung)

Take their opposition research, put them on the air and that's fine.

It will not be the first piece of opposition research to surface.

He and his staff are serious collectors of opposition research.

Democrats wonder why the senator's official staff was working on opposition research.

Staff members gave away opposition research to other campaigns, one said, because he would not use it.

He said it may "smack of opposition research" by another campaign.

If he has a future in national politics, what sort of criticism and opposition research do Democrats dish up about him?

So I don't worry about that opposition research crowd digging.

That's the stuff of which opposition research is made.

Often the ad will simply make use of innuendo, based on opposition research.

And the Democratic opposition research machine is scooping them up too, just in case.

"Why, the idea that opposition research could ever turn a campaign around is just ridiculous.

Rick Perry’s latest book isn’t the only one his opponents can mine for opposition research.

"They are good on the opposition research side of forcing the agenda.

I'd guess, and it's only a guess, that they thought I might be doing some sort of opposition research.

You'll find out how they use opposition research tactics.

Democrats have held back opposition research on Mourdock in the hope that he would win the primary.

It is an opposition research hub for the Democratic Party.

Opposition research is a necessary component of "grassroots" activist groups.

Moore went on to work for a political consulting firm that specializes in opposition research.

It is opposition research, the dark political art known to practitioners simply as "oppo."

A modern campaign also wouldn't be complete without digging up dirt on the competition, known as "opposition research" in the trade.

He hired a consultant and paid for opposition research.

The emergence of Jackson's video isn't the result of opposition research.

"I don't want to take sides," he said, "but it sounds like a pretty serious opposition research job.

Some oppo research could rough him up a bit, but not enough to kill his chances.

Two, the oppo research is invariably shoddy.

Note to Rudolph Giuliani: Get your oppo research team on this one, stat.

Some of the hidden activity is legitimate, including "oppo research" that is done to find inconsistencies in a rival candidate's record.

(Oppo research is the current euphemism for the dysphemism "dirty tricks.")

The oppo research on this guy from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee reads like a bad script from "Boston Legal."

The man has an army of political advisers who feed him with oppo research about Rick Santorum’s earmarks, but apparently nobody suggested downplaying the second Caddy.

He was definitely focused with his campaign’s oppo research against Gingrich, but this may have been a case where what helps him in the nomination could hurt in the general.

In the film we see RNC glee as the Associated Press accepts their oppo research on a Gore misstatement during the first presidential debate.

Rove is less successful in defending himself: the crucial revelation here is that when you make a political consultant your senior policy adviser, spin supplants substance, oppo research rules and winning the news cycle becomes more important than winning the war.

The National Republican Senatorial Committee, at the ready with oppo research on Kerrey's record, dismissed Kerrey as a "liberal" who has lived in "Greenwich Village for so many years" and being "simply out-of-step with Nebraska."

The DCCC oppo research includes some choice quotes, including this one from Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.) on Twitter: "If you know of someone thinking of buying [a] first home, now may be the time.

Kurtz surveyed the major networks, Newsweek, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, and other influential media outlets, and found varying levels of use of oppo research information on David Hale as a witness in the Whitewater controversy.

The first person we'll focus on, Ashley Judd - basically I refer to her as sort of the oppo research situation where there's a haystack of needles, just because truly, there's such a wealth of material," the aide says to laughter from the group.

On the recording you can hear the aide who led the meeting excited at the possibility of a Judd candidacy: "I refer to [Judd] as sort of the oppo research situation where there's a haystack of needles, just because truly, there's such a wealth of material."