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PAM FRAMPTON: Just how low can political attack ads go?

In the US, Republicans have created an ad using a Democratic candidate's estranged mother to urge people not to vote for her

If you were a politician, or an aspiring one, how far would you go to try to disparage or even eliminate a campaign rival?

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While an opponent’s political record is surely fair game, would anything be off-limits? What about their personal life? And would you feel obliged to stick to the truth, or would you be willing to lie or encourage others to do so to score points with the electorate?

In the blood sport that is politics in the United States these days, it seems anything goes.

Case in point: Ohio, where Democrat Dr. Amy Acton is in a tight race for governor against Republican tech billionaire Vivek Ramaswamy.

In an August news release, Acton’s campaign alleged that Ramaswamy’s mother, geriatric psychiatrist Dr. Geetha Ramaswamy, manipulated data for her son’s pharmaceutical company, Axovant, to boost the profile of Alzheimer’s drug intepirdine, which subsequently performed badly in clinical trials. Ramaswamy made an estimated $260 million from the company before its........

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