New York Times: “In a year when so many staples of American politics have faltered — television advertisements, polling, big-ticket endorsements, to name a few — will the negative campaign, whether wielded by Mr. Trump or Mrs. Clinton, be the reliable weapon it has proved to be in presidential campaigns over the course of American history? Is there anything left to say about two candidates who are so well known and so polarizing?”
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