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A brief history of Obama going negative This election cycle's barrage of negative campaigning has gotten a lot of attention lately. This week, Political Punch takes a slightly deeper plunge into the slime . "All those negative ads don't matter. When you come together, you cannot be stopped," President Obama told supporters at a campaign event in Jacksonville, Florida. And while it is true that Obama faces a battery of negative ads from independent groups  funded by unknown individuals, and it's also true that Mitt Romney is a relentless negative campaigner  the president is not so innocent on this charge, either. A recent study of a 2-week period ending in July found that about 89 percent of Obama's ads carried an anti-Romney message and 94 percent of Romney's ads an anti-Obama message; 2012 is on pace to become the most negative campaign cycle ever. But just how far back does Obama's negative campaigning go? And how down and dirty w...