CNN: Obama looks to turn attacks into campaign cash again
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Barack Obama, who has used attacks from Democratic rivals to raise funds for his White House bid, is making a new pitch for campaign cash based on similar actions by third-party groups who support his opponents.
“Right now groups supporting Hillary Clinton and John Edwards are flooding Iowa and the other early states with millions of dollars in paid ads, phone calls, and mailings,” he writes in an email sent to supporters Thursday. “Some of it is negative and even deceptive, and a lot of it is paid for by huge, unregulated contributions from special interests.”
“Taking on these groups isn't just a matter of setting the record straight about me or my positions. It's about proving that a new kind of campaign — funded by ordinary people who want something better for all of us — can defeat the same tired, old political textbook that so many Americans just don't trust anymore. Make your matching donation now to make it happen,” he adds.
The campaign had a fundraising windfall when it used a similar pitch earlier this month, after Clinton's New Hampshire campaign chairman, Bill Shaheen, told a Washington Post reporter that Obama's youthful drug use might make him an easy Republican target in a general election bid. The Obama campaign has long complained that independent groups, including 527 and union-linked groups, have poured millions into Iowa on behalf of Hillary Clinton and John Edwards leading up to that state’s first-in-the-nation caucuses.
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