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MoveOn ad ties Dole, McCain to big oil

 

Published 8/19/2008 by emilyes at CNN Political Ticker

MoveOn released a new ad, 'Pocket,' Tuesday. (CNN)— MoveOn.org has their sights set on Sen. Elizabeth Dole’s unexpectedly competitive contest for re-election in North Carolina, spending nearly half a million dollars on an ad accusing the North Carolina senator and fellow Republican John McCain of being “in the pocket of Big Oil.” “We could have provided clean [...] (link)

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