Senate race already in the gutter

Sun, 15 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Globe - By Joan Vennochi - May. 15 (Opinion) - Republican Scott Brown came out of nowhere in 2010 to win the US Senate seat held by Ted Kennedy for decades. A Democrat who comes out of nowhere could win it back in 2012. But the anti-Brown attack ad launched recently by the League of Women Voters isn’t going to help. It may thrill the liberal base, but it also threatens to chill the independent swing vote that both a Republican and a Democratic candidate need to win in Massachusetts. Why is Brown drawing attention to the League’s ad a full 18 months before election day? Not because it hurts him, but because it helps him. It reminds people of the unflattering “League of Women Vultures’’ moniker that detractors like to use to describe the organization. And, its depiction of a coughing, rasping child who is suffering because of Brown’s vote against air pollution standards illustrates the same old stereotypical scare tactics that turn off voters of all ideological persuasions.

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Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Jason Subler, Nigel Davies - Jun. 01 (Press Release) - BEIJING/LONDON (Reuters) - Manufacturing from China to Europe is showing signs of improvement, suggesting the global economy may be over the worst of a recession despite U.S. carmaker General Motors filing for bankruptcy protection.

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