Mudslinging.
The Bolsheviks main opponents were called the Mensheviks.
It's called a campaign.
The political opponents of the Bolsheviks were the Mensheviks.
The people who supported the Vietnam War were commonly knowns as hawks.
It was called the Vicksburg Campaign.
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The Bolsheviks' opponents within their own political party, the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, were called Mensheviks.
The Pacific Campaign.
It is called the Vicksburg Campaign.
A campaign promise is also called an election promise. Campaign promises made by a politician are part of what is known as their platform, which is a list of things the candidate supports.
The now-famous Democratic donkey was first associated with Democrat Andrew Jackson's 1828 presidential campaign. His opponents called him a jackass (a donkey), and Jackson decided to use the image of the strong-willed animal on his campaign posters. Later, cartoonist Thomas Nast used the Democratic donkey in newspaper cartoons and made the symbol famous.
It was called the crusades.