I made a comment below about some of our ads here in MI. I neglected to point out that the ads that are the most shrill and hyperbolic (my democratic opponent will enact policies that will cost over 1 million automobile jobs, and so on) are completely lacking in any information you could look at to judge the validity of the assertion — and the candidates’ web sites are also lacking that information. It’s almost as though they were just making things up from nothing, as hard as it is to believe.

RickA, those aren’t negative ads. They are just ads you don’t like.

Here it’s been Repubs on attack with Dems lagging in response. I will say there’s been a doozy of a Republican add on TV funded by some group I haven’t been able to track down. Basically it’s like the Dana Loesch NRA spot with raised fist and liberals rioting in the street, only worse. The thin veil separating the rhetoric from an actual call to violence is starting to fray.

Maybe you’ve seen it; it ends with the message that if you vote for even one Democrat there will be a socialist mob apocalypse. (“Mob,” “mob,” “mob”…apparently the irony challenged manage to ignore the actual incitements at Trump rallies.)

Anyway it’s got Nancy Pelosi looking like a crazed serial killer with a hammer, rioting in the streets, etc. Then there’s the American flag engulfed in a shocking firenado, like the glory of Rome going up in smoke. Leni Riefenstahl would have been proud of that last image.

Sick; and not in a good way.

– We had one Republican candidate for state office attacking a fellow Republican opponent because the opponent had a degree from Harvard, “where only elites go”
– We have attack ads against a Democratic state candidate for referring to himself as a doctor “when he isn’t”. The candidate is an MD, and ran health care for some state based organizations, but “He isn’t a doctor because he doesn’t work in an office or have patients”

And, of course, my state representative, who voted against expanding Medicare, and has voted to make it more difficult for people to have access to state aid and voting sites, is slamming his Democratic opponent because she will “decrease access to health care and take away your rights”

We also have the usual (from the right) attacks on the poor and minorities, calls to repeal the right to same sex marriage, and wrapping the candidate in the flag/military career and/or Right to Life (a horrible organization) backing.

You must be in a bubble not to have seen any negative democratic ads.

The one I see the features Erik Paulsen sitting in a canoe with Donald Trump.

Have you seen that one?

I have seen negative ads run against Jason Lewis also.

Don’t kid yourself, democrats run negative ads also.