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Huckabee's Admonition Not to Demonize Obama Will Fall on Deaf Ears

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics

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When things really heat up in the fall, the 527 committees will have a storehouse of privately funneled dollars to slam Obama on any and every big and petty issue they choose.

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The Coming Obama-McCain Mudfight

HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 06.15.2008 | Politics

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At a Friday night fundraiser, Barack Obama warned supporters that Republicans "are going to try to scare people. They're going to try to say that 'tha...

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GOP Plans Half-Million Hit On Obama, Dems

Politico | Josh Kraushaar | Posted 04.29.2008 | Politics

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For months, GOP operatives spoke with dread of the prospects of running against Barack Obama in the fall. But after weeks of controversies over his fo...

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Obama is Dems Only Answer

Byron Williams | Posted 04.27.2008 | Politics

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Clinton staying in the race is the price that Obama must pay for his failure to officially close the deal.

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The New York Times' Political Suicide Pact

Glenn Hurowitz | Posted 04.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Advertising, Negative Attacks, The New York Times, Negative Campaigning, James Carville, Election 2008, Paul Begala, Hillary Clinton Negative Campaigning, Barack Obama, Politics News

The Times editorial board's attitude ignores the evidence that negative, fear-inducing advertising actually has far better civic effects than positive, enthusiastic ads.

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A Paroxysm of Voterly Rage

Jeff Dorchen | Posted 04.22.2008 | Politics

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I apologize for the following. It was written in anger brought on by listening to All Things Considered for three whole minutes, a mistake I shall no...

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Obama Expands Rapid Response Team To Battle Swift-Boating

Newsweek | Mark Hosenball and Michael Isikoff | Posted 04.20.2008 | Politics

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The Obama campaign is planning to expand its research and rapid-response team in order to repel attacks it anticipates over his ties to 1960s radical ...

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Why Hillary Clinton's Slash-and-Burn Politics May Hurt Her More Than Obama

Robert Creamer | Posted 04.15.2008 | Politics

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I've talked to a number of undecided Super Delegate Members of Congress who are furious at Hillary's willingness to attack the candidate who they consider almost certain to be the Democratic nominee.

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Mark Penn, Designated Scapegoat?

Chris Weigant | Posted 04.09.2008 | Politics

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This is an interesting move for Clinton: it could truly be an effort to reunite the party by distancing herself from the mudslinging -- which will help the party whether she's the nominee or not.

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Barack Obama: Clinton Slayer

Will Bower | Posted 04.03.2008 | Home

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This was no subtle statement, but Barack Obama allowed its venomous message of generational-warfare to spread until it had built for him his now-solid base of angry, cynical, Clinton-hating support.

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Did Clinton Win Ohio on a Lie?

Paul Loeb | Posted 03.06.2008 | Politics

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The nine delegates Clinton netted from Ohio can't be changed, but the salience of of the "NAFTAgate" lie casts into doubt everything she says about the lessons of this victory.

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Obama Camp Lays Ground For Negative Attacks

Huffington Post | Posted 03.05.2008 | Politics

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***STORY UPDATES BELOW*** The Obama camp appears to be laying ground for pushing back against Hillary Clinton's latest campaign attacks, even if that...

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Clinton Camp: When Obama Attacks, Media Applaud

The Page | Mark Halperin | Posted 02.25.2008 | Politics

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Obviously angry communications director on conference call with reporters says: "I think it is true that every time the Obama campaign in this campai...

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What Hillary Should Have Done

Cenk Uygur | Posted 02.25.2008 | Politics

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If you're going to play dirty, you have to play it just right. Any misstep and you're going to turn everyone off. And that's exactly what it looks Clinton has done now.

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Stupid Campaigns. Be More Petty.

Peter Smith | Posted 02.20.2008 | Politics

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This time of the campaign year, your opposition research people uncovered everything there is to know about the other candidate... You're fresh out of dirt and mud.

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Huckabee Melting: Attacks Negative Campaigning With Negative Ad

HuffingtonPost.com | Marc Cooper | Posted 12.31.2007 | Home

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Des Moines, Iowa - In what is likely to be remembered as one of the more bizarre moments of this campaign season, embattled GOP presidential candidate...

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