The money is typically spent on television, the study said, and increasingly for the the kind of attack commercials familiar in races for legislative seats.

We got the politics away from the 30-second attack commercial into at least a relatively reasonable dialogue.

But it also may reflect the fact that people in Ireland do not live in a world of 30-second attack commercials.

Others warned the Republicans against moralizing attack commercials.

They also said the advertisements would position his campaign as more positive than that of Mr. Bush, who weeks ago shifted to nothing but attack commercials.

For months they had braced for an onslaught of harsh attack commercials from him.

It is the first attack commercial of the postconvention campaign.

Gov. George W. Bush of Texas said he has never run an attack commercial - and is not about to start now.

The man who called for a moratorium on attack commercials is now broadcasting them.

Even his attack commercials seem pressed from one mold.