Joe Klein‘s latest TIME column takes John McCain to task for running a more negative campaign than is warranted under the normal circumstances of a political battle.
Not so fast, says Michael Barone. A recent Barone blog post is titled “Obama’s campaign is more negative than McCain’s”:
Interestingly, despite the meme of liberal commentary that McCain is
running a scandalously negative campaign, the Obama campaign is running
more negative ads than the McCain campaign.
North Carolinians will have a chance to hear Barone’s analysis in person this week. He’ll deliver a John Locke Foundation Headliner address at noon Wednesday in Winston-Salem.
