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Home Front: Politix
Prime time for opposition research
2008-04-01
Jon Henke, The Atlantic
Strike-outs in original.

It's getting down to desperation crunch time in the Democratic primary, so the oppo researchers are unloading the good stuff press is really beginning to scrutinize the candidates more carefully. While the "oops" moments they've uncovered probably are not campaign-ending disasters, they seem like the kind of narrative slips that could be problematic for both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. A parade of the recent troubles...

Hillary Clinton is running on her competence and determination to insure everybody. But she hasn't paid her staff's medical bills in a couple months.

Barack Obama is running as a new kind of candidate with a new kind of campaign. But his campaign is spreading good old-fashioned, er, misinformation. Oddly, they seem to think that hey, he amended the document and signed it himself, but that doesn't mean he actually read the thing is a good defense. . . .

The litany continues at the link.

It's been a difficult week for both of them, but they have only themselves to blame. Well, themselves, their opponents research departments and a few well-fed reporters.
Posted by:Mike

#2  Who needs Karl Rove when the candidates constantly trip on their lip.
Posted by: JohnQC   2008-04-01 14:09  

#1  ...and a few well-fed reporters.

Need to speed up the internet development to drop the redundant job description. No need for paid sock puppets these days.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2008-04-01 09:25  

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