  They're everywhere, those lousy, irritating negative political
ads.  There's even a video on YouTube on how to make one.  I
don't know why I expect anything different. It seems negative
campaigning is built into our country's political fabric. It's
our history, ever since John Adams and Thomas Jefferson traded
insults about physical attributes and family heritage, topics
that had nothing to do with running a country.  I've become
quite negative about negative campaign advertising. Negative
campaigns are an insult to our intelligence. They are a waste of
our time. They aren't even entertaining. Nov. 7 can't get here
fast enough.  Critics on both sides contend opponents' ads are
short on truth. So who we gonna believe? Do the folks behind all
these attack ads really think they are making some kind of mind-
changing impression?  Maybe so. Liz Skewes, an associate
professor at the University of Colorado-Boulder's school of
journalism and mass communication, said in an interview with CU
graduate student Lucia Pal