Article: US presidential race growing increasingly hostile

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The US presidential race grew increasingly hostile and bitter Saturday with President Barack Obama releasing an attack ad that blamed Republican rival Mitt Romney for shipping American jobs abroad.

Obama, who with a stubborn unemployment rate of 8.2 percent, is fighting historic precedent to keep his job, poured scorn on his White House opponent's business record, intensifying his recent character assassination of Romney.

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Bitter? Hostile? You haven't seen many campaigns have you. This is light conversation around a cup of tea. The heavy stuff comes later when one gets a bit desperate.

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Bitter? Hostile? You haven't seen many campaigns have you. This is light conversation around a cup of tea. The heavy stuff comes later when one gets a bit desperate.

People have such short memories.

I would argue that election campaigns have actually calmed down. Before the advent of the media, they used to beat the crap out of each others supporters, threaten each other, bribe each others backers, and get up to all sorts of shena****ns.

Some of this still goes on, I'm sure, but a lot more low key.