C&E Panel Discussion

I just came from the Campaigns & Elections panel discussion. It was a good time. One of the Democrat consultants on the panel said something that stuck with me, though. He made the point that this was the most negative election cycle he had ever seen (on both sides), and that he kept worrying that the negativity would depress turnout. To his amazement, the opposite happened. He said that the lesson to be learned by this election is that going negative works -- and that it's a myth that it will depress the electorate ...