Articles by the Associated Press, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, the Politico, The Washington Post, and USA Today quoted or paraphrased Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain's (AZ) assertion following the January 3 Iowa caucuses that "[t]he lesson of this election in Iowa is that, one, you can't buy an election in Iowa, and, two, negative campaigns don't work. They don't work there, and they don't work here in New Hampshire." But none of those articles noted that McCain has run negative TV ads in New Hampshire against one of his Republican rivals, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. McCain's campaign has also produced negative Web ads targeting Romney.
In a December 28 press release, McCain's campaign announced the release of its TV ad "Consider," which quotes a Concord Monitor editorial asserting, "If a candidate is a phony... we'll know it. Mitt Romney is such a candidate." Time magazine senior political analyst Mark Halperin reported on his Time.com blog The Page that the ad was the "first negative ad by any candidate besides Romney." In a December 28 post on ABC News' blog Political Radar, Matt Stuart reported that Romney responded to the ad, saying: "It's an attack ad. It attacks me personally. It's nasty. It's mean spirited. Frankly, it tells you more about Sen. McCain than it does about me that he would run an ad like that.".....
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