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Outside groups have also gone after Brown. The League of Conservation Voters and the League of Women Voters have spent nearly $3 million on separate ad campaigns accusing Brown of casting anti-environmental votes. Both groups have also run ads against Democrats in other states. The League of Women Voters' ad rapped Brown for voting with other Senate Republicans to ban the Environmental Protection Agency from controlling gases blamed for global warming. It showed a child breathing through an oxygen mask and urged Brown to "protect the people and not the polluters." Brown complained that the ad was "political demagoguery." One spot by the League of Conservation Voters slammed Brown for siding with "big oil" and voting "repeatedly against protecting our environment and public health." He has denounced that ad as a distortion. The League of Conservation Voters said Brown scored a zero on the group's national environmental report card. The early wave of attack ads has hurt both candidates, a recent University of Massachusetts-Lowell/Boston Herald poll found. The percentage of voters who said they had an unfavorable view of Brown rose from 29 percent to 35 percent between late September and early December. Those viewing Warren unfavorably increased from 18 percent to 27 percent. Brown wants third-party groups to pull their negative commercials. Warren draws the line at unfair attack ads but defends the rights of political action committees and other independent groups to run ads. Such talk won't stop outside groups from swarming the airwaves with negative ads, however. "This is just a harbinger of things to come," said Corrado.
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