Becki Gray, John Locke Foundation vice president for outreach, assesses the impact of negative campaign ads in North Carolina’s 2014 U.S. Senate race. Gray offered offered these comments during the Oct. 1, 2014, edition of Time Warner Cable News’ “Capital Tonight.”
For healthy civil society, politics needs to stay in its lane
Political and cultural causes are important. They motivate us to make the world around us better and hone our sense of justice. Also, the excitement of fighting the good fight can be, for lack of a better word, fun. But everything has its time and place. And even if we think a particular political issue...