Editor 's note : Campbell Brown anchors CNN 's `` Campbell Brown : Election Center '' at 8 p.m . ET Mondays through Fridays . She delivered this commentary during the `` Cutting through the Bull '' segment of Monday night 's broadcast . Campbell Brown says whoever wins should enter the White House with his dignity intact . NEW YORK ( CNN ) -- By now you 've probably heard about how ugly things have gotten out there on the campaign trail in the last 48 hours . But we thought for just a moment we would take you back to kinder , gentler times . Remember this : . Sen. John McCain : I pledge again a respectful campaign . A respectful campaign based on the issues and based on the stark differences we have on the vision for the future of America . Sen. Barack Obama : I said I was looking forward to a civil substantive debate on the issues and he agreed . McCain : I 've pledged to conduct a respectful campaign and I urge , time after time , various entities within the Republican party to also do that . Obama : We do n't need John McCain and I to be demonizing each other . You wo n't get that from my campaign . Oh how far we have come in such a short period of time . To say , as Gov . Sarah Palin is now doing , that Barack Obama pals around with terrorists is just outrageous . But Obama 's hands are n't clean either . Here is what he said in May of this year about McCain 's involvement in the Keating Five , a savings and loan scandal that happened in the late 80s . iReport.com : Your hopes for next debate . Obama said , `` I do n't think there is any doubt that John McCain 's public record about issues that he 's apologized for and written about is not germane to the presidency . '' And yet this morning the Obama campaign released a mini-documentary , walking voters through all the details of the Keating Five -- making it very much germane . There is just one month left . Please , please do n't let this devolve into a campaign you are sickened by and embarrassed to be part of . Here 's a purely practical reason : The negativity you are spewing now will only make your job harder after Election Day . Bipartisanship is really tough to achieve when everyone on both sides is left with a bad bad taste in their mouths . Here is the new CNN Opinion Research Corp . When asked `` How are things going in the country today ? '' 80 percent said badly . Eighty percent . Pollsters have been asking that question since 1974 . Eighty percent is an all-time low . People want to hear solutions from you . They want to hear how you are going to get us out of this mess . One of you will have to . Do n't you want to be able to walk into the White House with your dignity intact and your head held high ? The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the writer .
Campbell Brown says the presidential campaign has been getting ugly . He says he is not a fan of either candidate but that both are equally bad for America. Voters would rather hear how candidates would solve economic ills , she says .