thenation.com - 10/18/2008
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Chris Schoff of Albert Lea, Minnesota, received a strange call on Tuesday evening. A voice on the line started reading from a script: "Barack Obama and his fellow Democrats got caught putting Hollywood above America. On the very day our elected leaders gathered in Washington to deal with the ...
talkingpointsmemo.com - 10/26/2008
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talkingpointsmemo.com —
Bear with me. The intricacies of GOP dirty
tricks in Pennsylvania take some unraveling. But this is
too rich, and the best part comes at the end. On Thursday the Pennsylvania GOP sent out an email to 75,000 Jewish voters in the state warning that ...
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Feldman Speaks -- But Not About Hoax
huffingtonpost.com - 10/22/2008
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huffingtonpost.com —
Oregon's Gordon Smith has become the fourth Republican
Senator to disavow John McCain's robocalls linking Barack Obama
to Bill Ayers. In a statement to the Huffington Post, Smith for Senate press secretary Lindsay Gilbride said: "They [the Ayers ...
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Another GOP Senator Decries Ayers Robocalls
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John McCain Using Same RoboCall Firm That Smeared Him In 2000
Crooks and Liars —
... states that Obama is a "celebrity" politician who was fundraising in Hollywood during the financial crisis.
BRILLIANT tactics. Polls show your campaign losing traction as your "pitbull with lipstick" running mate goes negative out on the campaign trail, so what do you do? Stay negative, and use the company that perpetuated the "John McCain fathered an illegitimate black baby" story that sank your campaign. That's putting country first, Johnny.
But wait, there's more:
(T)here's more to this story than just a fishy and misplaced ...
Paul Jenkins: Karl Rove, Jeff Larson and Red Leather
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... John McCain's career once and for all in the 2000 GOP primary; and the man whom McCain has hired this year to dish out robocalls against Barack Obama. ...
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huffingtonpost.com 10/19/2008 — Two Republican senators facing re-election battles in states also seeing presdential campaign attention are speaking out against anti-Obama robocalls from McCain's campaign and the RNC.
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marcambinder.theatlantic.com 10/18/2008 — Political scientists and consultants say that taped-voice telephone calls are among the least effective methods of voter persuasion.
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Campaigns Take Flak For Using Robocalls
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huffingtonpost.com 10/20/2008 — One of the more noteworthy responses to John McCain's massive robocall campaign tying Barack Obama to Bill Ayers has been from parents whose children have been on the receiving end of the incendiary calls.
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McCain and Palin are increasingly suggesting Obama is a socialist.
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