"As with most public officials, he's been the target of accusations and mudslinging, " Iowa Sen.
The president accuses the opposition of resorting to mudslinging as a substitute for policies.
Tired of the mudslinging, 20% would either vote against all candidates or simply not turn out.
Not even our tabloidesque, Monica-obsessed period can match the mudslinging, scandalmongering politics of late 18th- and early 19th-century America.
One consequence is that the mudslinging of the computer industry is spilling over into the car industry.
Following a campaign rich in lawsuits and mudslinging, a close election could severely test the Philippines' 18-year-old democracy.
The mudslinging has strong political undertones, and hints at the difficulties of running a country with a divided government.
The mudslinging between the candidates and campaigns in this election was matched by the vitriol spewed over the polls.
Their foot-dragging and mudslinging over the bipartisan plan for incentive auctions serves nobody but a handful of moneyed interests.
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Of course, the mudslinging--er, campaigning--is hardly confined to the 30-second television spot today.
For better or worse (but mostly for the worse), terrorism and intelligence have become part of the election's mudslinging.
"Women generally don't react favorably to campaign smears and mudslinging, " said Kim Gandy, the president of the National Organization for Women.
Calderon led one of the most negative mudslinging campaigns in Mexican history.
Commissioner Richard Bilas, a Republican appointee, said it was unconstitutional "partisan mudslinging" that could prompt the closing of military bases in the state.
There was a good deal of ethnic mudslinging in both contests.
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Lots of other scientists probably wish someone else could be the public face of the genome, because soap opera and mudslinging tend to follow Venter around.
Even independent commentators find Mr Kejriwal's style of politics uncomfortable: "a trademark mixture of gimmickry and mudslinging" sometimes dangerously bordering on demagoguery, as one wrote.
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The race is likely to be tight between the two main parties, and mudslinging and petty sniping have characterized their bid to jockey for every possible advantage.
Even formerly apolitical individuals are getting pulled into mudslinging.
Some made formal complaints about Mr Meredith and the current council leader Mohammed Pervez, accusing them of "verbal abuse", "ranting and bullying" and "barracking and mudslinging" at a meeting over the issue.
But after the unseemly bickering and mudslinging that the two parties engaged in throughout the campaign period, a bit of cooperation is the least they can now do for the Korean public.
Already, Anwar's detractors have been engaged in a mudslinging campaign to discredit the deputy PM, their tactics including the distribution of a book entitled 50 Reasons Why Anwar Can't Be Prime Minister.
Mr. Jean marveled at the mudslinging from Messrs.
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The fuss over Mr Sanger's book has triggered an inquiry by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), a bout of political mudslinging in America and calls for an international treaty to ban computer warfare altogether.
His wife, the powerful Minister of Minerals and Energy, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, has rallied to his defence, saying that she and her husband have more important work to do, serving the people of South Africa, rather than wasting time on mudslinging with comrades.
Maduro's stunningly close victory followed an often ugly, mudslinging campaign in which the winner promised to carry on Chavez's self-styled socialist revolution, while challenger Henrique Capriles' main message was that Chavez put this country with the world's largest oil reserves on the road to ruin.
Barack Obama gave a 53-minute interview over breakfast aboard a chartered jet that took him to Chicago, and he described to these New York Times reporters that he is going to get tough, that he's going to come down from his tower, as he's been not wanting to engage in mudslinging.
After three years of mudslinging, the three giants that control 95% of the instant-messaging market-- AOL Time Warner (nyse: AOL - news - people ) with 180 million users, Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) with 75 million and Yahoo (nasdaq: YHOO - news - people ), 20 million--still refuse to let their customers contact those in rival camps.
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