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  • Think Negative Campaign Ads Work? Think Again

    By CLAUDIA ADRIEN-FLORIDA

    Negative political ads may pack a punch, but only with voters who trust the politicians delivering them, a new study suggests. But contrary to conventional wisdom, those ads don’t always work as well...

  • Romney’s Coattails Drag Down GOP Senate Candidates

    By Bruce Bartlett, The Fiscal Times

    Last week I confidently predicted that Mitt Romney would lose the election. Since then, things have only become worse for him, as a video of a fundraiser he spoke at earlier this year surfaced. In...

  • Why Americans Should Root for a Strong China Economy

    By Josh Boak, The Fiscal Times

    Both President Obama and Mitt Romney portray China as a rival flaunting trade deals in order to steal American jobs, but what voters aren’t hearing is that the recent slowdown by the Asian juggernaut...

  • Polls Show Growing Edge for Obama and Senate Dems

    By Eric Pianin and Josh Boak

    It's beginning to look as if the political winds are blowing in the Democrats' favor since this summer's two political conventions. A series of polls and analyses show President Obama running ahead...

  • Fiscal Cliff Puts Defense Stocks Under the Gun

    By Suzanne McGee, The Fiscal Times

    The "fiscal cliff" is one of those phrases that has become all-too familiar in recent months, as economists and other pundits agonize about what might follow a failure by Congress to do something...