Outside cash leaves scorched earth in US campaign
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WASHINGTON — Nerve jarring music races to a crescendo, shadowy pictures flash across the screen, and in doom-laden tones, a narrator warns: “Obama — he promised change... now he’s desperate, on the attack.”
This is not the inspirational candidate who moved thousands to tears at his Chicago victory party, nor the one who tilted at history with the most impressive legislative record of any Democratic president for decades.
This is President Barack Obama through the eyes of “Americans for Prosperity,” a group lambasted by Democrats since a Supreme Court decision opened a spigot of outside spending on next month’s mid-term elections.
Expensive, bombastic political ads are hardly new to American politics — both sides of the political aisle fling half truths and explosive claims across television screens every election season.
But Democrats, fearing heavy losses in Congress due to the sluggish economic rebound and high unemployment, are crying foul this year, after the Court rulings dismantled a raft of restrictions on corporate spending..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
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