Poll: New speed bumps for Clinton

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168. Bernie Sanders is not immune to negative campaigning,

as I was reminded in another thread. For example, in a televised CNBC interview last week, Sanders said that Hillary "hustles money."

“When you hustle money like that, you don’t sit in restaurants like this. You sit in restaurants where you’re spending—I don’t know what they spend—hundreds of dollars for dinner and so forth. That’s the world that you’re accustomed to, and that’s the world view that you adopt. You’re not worrying about a kid three blocks away from here whose mom can’t afford to feed him.” - Bernie Sanders on CNBC, 5/26/15

One could argue, "But it's true! She does hustle money! That's not negative campaigning, that's just truth!"

But that would be bullshit. That's negative campaigning plain and simple. Essentially calling your opponent a pimp who doesn't feel any concern or compassion for hungry children is not only negative, it's a good ways down the scale of negative.

I admire Bernie and negative campaigning is not characteristic of his style. It's one of the things I admire about him. But he's not immune to going negative against his competition.