...depending on who one supports, one probably knows more about that candidate, and as such, the perception will be the other side is distoring more and being more negative.
As for a teeter totter, simply speaking, two wrongs do not make a right.
That realization has helped me tremendously in ceasing to engage or respond to certain happenings around here.
By the way, I heard you deleted a rather awful thread about me. While I don't know what that was, nor do I want to, and even though I did not ask for it to be removed, thanks Roger. Irie.