To what extent do smear tactics influence your political decisions?

McCain is flip-flopping on his own attack ads. LOL. Yep, that's right, now the McCain campaign is backing up from the hate-mongering after getting slammed with so much negative reaction to the negative ads: a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0708/McCain_campaign_backs_off_cameras_charge.html" rel="nofollow"http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0…/a