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Saturday, May 03, 2008

Campaign Dirty Tricks

It looks like both Dems have some dirty tricksters in their campaign. First, some Clinton supporters in North Carolina have been calling black voters to tell them they're not registered to vote:
Some automated calls to North Carolina voters implying that they are not yet legally registered to vote, have been traced to a women's advocacy group run by people with links to the Clintons.

Wired magazine reports the group Women's Voices, Women Vote has acknowledged making the calls and promised to stop. A Raleigh newspaper reports the calls were made primarily to black households.

Many of the group's officials worked in Bill Clinton's administration or have made donations to Hillary Clinton's campaign. The North Carolina attorney general's office says the calls are illegal because the group did not identify itself and the state is investigating.

The Clinton campaign acknowledges it has supporters on the group's board and staff and says group officials have admitted their mistake and apologized.

And some Obama supporters got some serious play with a YouTube video taken from the documentary The War Room that made it appear that Clinton advisor Mickey Kantor had called Indiana voters "S***" and "white ni*****" back during the 1992 campaign. Had this been true it would have been pretty incendiary for Indiana voters.

However, more analysis of the video, along with a transcript from the documentary producer, showed this to be a dirty trick.

Both sides are clearly desperate for wins on Tuesday.

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