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DNC targets McCain on energy with oil drum stress balls

 

Published 8/19/2008 by CNN Associate Producer Martina Stewart at CNN Political Ticker

(CNN) – Last month, the Republican National Committee tire gauges as part of its effort to rip Sen. Barack Obama’s energy policy. Now the Democratic Party is returning the favor, sending journalists oil drum-shaped stress balls as the presumptive Republican nominee visited an oil rig Tuesday to push for offshore drilling. The “Exxon-McCain ’08” campaign kits from [...] (link)

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