Sweet Home Alabama and Bitter Politics

Mudslinging has reached new heights in the rainsoaked red clay of Alabama. Gone are the usual  insinuations and innuendo, and in their place are vicious verbal attacks. Party lines have been crossed, and insults have become downright personal.

Once again the state of Alabama has made the op-ed page of the New York Times, and it is certainly no surprise. Politics have been  particularly bitter in the south this election year.

Gail Collins writes in Alabama Goes Viral (NYTimes, May 29 that this has been a "peculiar political year even for Alabama, where viral campaign videos are turning heads."

-----by Penne J. Laubenthal

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