At first glance, the Republican television commercial on prescription drugs looks like a run-of-the-mill attack advertisement.

But they spent much of their time attacking one another over attack advertisements.

Experts think the attack advertisements cancel themselves out, and voters will simply choose the more appealing personality.

Ms. Hart, interviewed for television, said she disliked attack advertisements.

The tactic of persuading television stations not to run attack advertisements goes back at least to 1982.

The bill also seeks to stop the proliferation of attack advertisements by outside groups.

And some senators said they were increasingly concerned with attack advertisements by outside groups.

A few candidates have dared to refer to the terrorism as part of attack advertisements.

Behind the News - Much of that money bought attack advertisements, as the campaigns went negative early and often.

Another trend this year is the greater hesitancy to run slashing attack advertisements.