barry is sweating bullets On Sep 9, 5:19 pm, jgg1000a <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > after his much loudly trumpheted refusal of it... Change we can > believe in... > > http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/09/quietly_obama_ca... > > >>> There's been a spurt of 527 activity on behalf of Sen. John McCain, but > >>> Barack Obama campaign has suddenly gone silent on the subject. > > That's because, after a year of telling donors not to contribute to > 527 groups, of encouraging strategists not to form them and of > suggesting that outside messaging efforts would not be welcome in > Obama's Democratic Party, Obama's strategists have changed their > approach. > > An Obama adviser privy to the campaign's internal thinking on the > matter says that,with less than two months before the election and > with the realization that Republicans have achieved financial parity > with Democrats, they hope that Democratic allies -- what another > campaign aide termed "the cavalry" -- will come to Obama's aid. > > The Obama campaign can't ask donors to form outside groups; it can > only communicate, through the public and the media, with body > language, tells and hints. > > The upshot: Obama's campaign will no longer object to independent > efforts that hammer John McCain, just as, in their mind, the McCain > campaign has not objected to those efforts targeted at Obama. "I > assume with their 527s stirring, some [Democratic] ones will as well," > another senior campaign official said. > > The money is there. The top two 527s -- the Service Employees > International Union and America Votes -- are liberal in orientation. > The SEIU fund has contributed to other 527 efforts, and America Votes > has earmarked most of its money for what it calls the "largest > grassroots voter mobilization" in history. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum
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