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Campaign Ads: Why Be Positive?

By Madison Powers and CQ Guest Columnist

Posted August 19, 2008 at 12:00am

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Madison Powers is Senior Research Scholar, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University. His column appears weekly in CQ Politics on Wednesday.

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