One in 10 respondents who contacted Guardian US during the 2016 primary season said that in their view American democracy itself was in peril: they replied that political corruption or the distortion of campaign finance by big money was the single more important issue that candidates had failed to address.
Distortion, negative campaigning and mendacity seem to be run of the mill for Governor Romney.
He engaged in an embarrassingly public soul-searching over whether to attack Mr. Gore for his campaign distortions and fund-raising abuses in 1996.
I realize that distortion is part of campaigning, but when did it become campaigning?
"Our biggest challenge is to overcome the Republicans' well-financed campaign of distortion," Mr. Jacobs said.
Rather than complying with international law and signed agreements, the Israeli government has launched a deliberate campaign of distortion, hatred and incitement".
Human rights activists called the government's depiction of the protesters as hooligans an official campaign of distortion intended to cover up the military's violence and bolster its image.
The plan's complexity made it "prey to artful distortion," allowing the "opposing campaign" to exaggerate its potential costs and the risk that it would shortchange "the most vulnerable citizens".
Palestinian leaders have accused Israel of interfering in internal Palestinian affairs and launching "a deliberate campaign of distortion, hatred and incitement", after the Israeli foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, called for elections to replace the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas.
