Where there is anything substantive, the attitude seems to be that baseball is more like war than like an affair of honor, so that teams have enemies rather than opponents.

Negativity Update: 2010 Features Similar Rates of Negativity,
But Dems More Likely to Attack Personally.
Dems and Reps are Similar in Proportion of Negative Ads, but Dem Strategy Likely Driven by Desire to Draw Attention Away from the Policy Environment

As we reported last week, ?claims that 2010 is the most negative election to date may be premature. In an analysis of close to 900,000 airings from January 1 to October 5, 2010, the Wesleyan Media Project finds that the distribution of positive, negative and contrast ads is comparable to 2008 in proportion, if not in volume.? In an update to that release, and with a focus on House and Senate races, we continue to find similar rates of negativity. Furthermore, we find that Democrats and Republicans are airing similar proportions of negative (and positive) spots in federal races. However, there is one crucial difference: Democrats are using personal attacks at much higher rates than Republicans and a much higher rate than Democrats in 2008.

http://election-ad.research.wesleyan.edu/files/2010/10/WesMediaProject_ReleaseTone_20101026.pdf

Michale.....

I would be more impressed if Obama sat down with people like me...

So much for Obama being President of the UNITED States, eh...

Michale.....