Going Negative on the Negative Reaction to Negative Campaigning

Yes, you read it correctly, that's a triple negative in the title.

Moving on, Ezra Shabot provides a succinct rejection of the anti-negativity electoral regime presently in place in Mexico:

And if it worked in 2006 as much for the PAN with "López Obrador is a danger for Mexico", as with the PRD with the "Hildebrando case", in 2009 it's unimaginable that the parties will renounce this recourse regardless of the legal consequences. It continues being advantageous to pay the fines that the IFE imposes for defaming the opposition, in exchange for increasing the power of the parliamentary group in the lower house.

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Negative campaigns aren't everything, but without them it is impossible to consider an integral electoral strategy, capable of delivering victory. Attempting to censure these expressions is as absurd as turning politicians into contestants in a contest of oratory. The struggle for power in a democracy is a war with certain rules that don't eliminate low blows, much less the use of effective and trustworthy weapons.

Well said. Shabot nails both the philosophical and practical absurdity of the ban on negative campaigning.