Polls show that Obama currently has the upper hand, thanks in part to a carpet-bombing campaign of negative attack ads whose questionable charges demonstrate a complete disregard for facts and reason.

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This brings us to the third point: Why did Romney buy the election by carpet-bombing his opponents with negative ads and pretending for the first time in his political life to be "severely conservative"?

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