Behind the disdain of the high-minded for negative campaign spots is a fear that they will erode Americans' faith in politics and government.

Let’s do a little interpolation. It is widely said that Mitt Romney is stuck at 25% of the vote. That’s reflected in the national polls, which have shown him with an average of 24% since Thanksgiving (throughout I’ll be looking at only post-Thanksgiving polls). But that doesn’t mean he runs the same in every state or region.

President George W. Bush'scritics cannot claim to be in favor of winning the war in Iraq and also oppose fighting it, funding it, and offering any coherent strategy for succeeding at it.

You know politicians are serious when they move from campaigning to governing. Something like that may be happening on the Republican campaign trail -- but, unfortunately, not at the Obama White House.

Obama's decision to campaign -- er, conduct official business -- on university campuses last week was not surprising. According to exit polls, there was no surge of young voters in 2008.

Romney was the big, big winner in delegates, but that doesn't mean that he'll be handed the nomination.

President Obama’s scorn for the Constitution has been expressed most recently in his "recess" appointments of members of the National Labor Relations Board and the chairmanship of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Every federal official has an obligation to act in line with the Constitution as he or she understands it. And that doesn't necessarily mean obeying Supreme Court decisions.