While some have drawn a parallel between the hidden camera tactics behind Romney's 47 percent video and James O'Keefe's stealth attack portraying Acorn as an enabler of prostitution, Jackson supporters charged that Old Hickory's rival for the White House, the incumbent John Quincy Adams, was an actual pimp.
The days of hidden, disingenuous sales tactics are over.
But given the number of newly registered voters on both sides, the massive undercurrents flowing in every direction, the volatile economy, unprecedented get out the vote machines on both side, and the extensive, hidden election day tactics planned by both camps - anyone making a prediction right now is guessing.
And, surely, some argue, in the defense of their land's safety, hidden actions and hard tactics are justified by the goal they serve.
As the case made its way through the courts, the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press asked in a 1997 poll whether people thought it was acceptable for reporters to use potentially deceptive tactics like hidden cameras.
The Guardian captured these verbal imitation tactics on hidden camera in 2015, but even these men said violence was a last resort mostly because of potential criminal charges and expensive lawyers.
Vendors use the bait-and-switch tactic of hidden fees because the deeper you get in the purchasing process, the more incentives you have to complete it.
Animals can employ the most incredible tactics to remain hidden from view.
"Bashar al-Assad's use of a network of selected advisers —among them the inner circle who are party to the hidden email accounts — is a tactic straight from his father's playbook," The Guardian wrote in an analysis of the emails.
Among common DRM tactics is the installation of hidden or secret files, such as rootkits, on users' computers when a compact disc (CD) or digital videodisc (DVD) is first inserted into their machines.
