President Obama has taken heat for the negativity of his 2012 campaign. In an April 2008 speech, Obama promised to not run negative ads saying it "was a different time" that required "a different kind of campaign." He later ran many negative ads against John McCain.
Andrew Kaczynski is a political reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in New York.
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