"Maybe it's because he's really the best, and even jealous mudslingers can't hide his star quality," I said.
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Wallace's "skirt-tails" to power and then joined with black militants to defeat him, according to the book "Mudslingers: The Twenty-Five Dirtiest Political Campaigns of All Time" (20093), by Kerwin Swint.
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Swint's book "Mudslingers: The 25 Dirtiest Political Campaigns of All Time" chronicles what he and other scholars believe to be the most negative political campaigns in history. The book has been cited frequently since its publication in 2006 by academics and journalists.
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According to a column by E. J. Dionne in The Washington Post, by 2006 politicians whom opponents had accused of improperly avoiding the draft included George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Bill Clinton.Dionne, E.J. (17 January 2006)."Murtha and the Mudslingers". The Washington Post, p. A17.
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Mohl, Raymond (1995). "Race relations in Miami since the 1920s" in Colburn, David R: Landers, Jane L. (eds.) "The African American Heritage of Florida," University Press of Florida, pp. 326-363.Swint, Kerwin C., Mudslingers: The Twenty-five Dirtiest Political Campaigns of All Time, Praeger Publishers, Westport, CT (2006). more recent scholarship has focused on Pepper's vulnerable voting record.
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For many decades after the Vietnam War ended, prominent Americans were being accused of having manipulated the draft system to their advantage. According to a column by E. J. Dionne in The Washington Post, by 2006 politicians whom opponents had accused of improperly avoiding the draft included George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Bill Clinton.Dionne, E.J. (17 January 2006)."Murtha and the Mudslingers".
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In 1996, he appeared on- stage in a small theater in Chicago, with comedian Tom Naughton in the Slagle Naughton Report. In 2000 he also produced and starred in a brief run on local Minneapolis television show: The Mudslingers Ball, with Lewis Black, Will Durst, Jeffrey Jena, and host Mike Lukas. It aired on KSTP channel 5, an ABC affiliate. He was interviewed and appeared briefly in the documentary Michael Moore Hates America (2004) Orndorf, Brian (October 25, 2004).
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Part of American political lore is the Smathers "redneck speech," which Smathers reportedly delivered to a poorly educated audience. The alleged comments were recorded in a small magazine, picked up in Time and elsewhere and etched into the public’s memories. Time Magazine, during the campaign, claimed that Smathers said this: ::Are you aware that Claude Pepper is known all over Washington as a shameless extrovert? Not only that, but this man is reliably reported to practice nepotism with his sister- in-law, he has a brother who is a known homo sapiens,Swint, Kerwin C., Mudslingers: The Twenty-five Dirtiest Political Campaigns of All Time, Praeger Publishers, Westport, CT, 2006 and he has a sister who was once a thespian in wicked New York.
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In the 1988 elections, Lautenberg was opposed by Republican Wall Street executive, former college football star Brigadier General Pete Dawkins, who won the 1958 Heisman Trophy for the Army Black Knights. After trailing in early polls, the Lautenberg campaign, headed by Democratic consultant James Carville, ran an aggressive advertising campaign enumerating Lautenberg's legislative accomplishments and raising the possibility that Dawkins' candidacy was intended solely as a stepping stone to the presidency, as well as pointing out his lack of roots in New Jersey. Lautenberg ultimately came from behind to win re-election, 54% to 46%. The race was named the 17th- nastiest in American political history by political scientist Kerwin Swint in his book Mudslingers: The 25 Dirtiest Political Campaigns of All Time.
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