This is a class blog for the students of POLSCI 426: Congressional Politics at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.

Gutter Politics

Kentucky senate candidates, Rand Paul and Jack Conway are now in a dirty fight over "gutter politics". Conway's campaign created a commercial that exposed Paul and his religion choices in college. Paul called Conway out on a televised debate asking for an apology...

3 comments:

ashb said...

This kind of reminds me of a spat between two high school kids. One insults the other, and the one who is insulted is asking for an apology and is refusing to "hangout" or in this case debate the other. Honestly like the article stated this just distracts us from the issues, and the article itself doesn't even come close to discussing political issues until the very end when it stated the two candidates stances on abortion.

crawfisch said...

sooo little substance arghhhh

Ben said...

Should religion be an issue in politics? Is there any difference between these attacks and those leveled at President Obama being a Muslim?

Martin Luther once said, "I'd rather be ruled by a wise Turk than a foolish Christian." Did he have a good point?

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