Obama camp denies Iowa, New Hampshire 'dirty tricks' accusation

[DeepModem Mom]

CNN: December 4, 2007
Obama camp denies 'dirty tricks' accusation

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign is denying a fresh accusation leveled by the campaign of Sen. Hillary Clinton that surrogates for the Illinois Democrat are engaging in "dirty tricks" in Iowa.

Clinton campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle made the charge in a letter to supporters Monday night. "In both Iowa and New Hampshire, we have heard that Obama staffers are berating Hillary supporters on the phone with negative attacks against her," wrote Doyle. She went on to describe accounts of a negative campaign tactic known as "push polling" — a practice where voters receive phone calls from individuals posing as independent pollsters who instead offer details of negative and sometimes misleading attributes about a particular candidate.

Doyle also said some of Clinton’s Iowa supporters have received calls that direct them to the wrong precinct locations.

In a statement released Tuesday, Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton called the accusation a "flat-out falsehood."...

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/12/04/obama-camp-denies-dirty-tricks-charge/

[hedgehog]

1. This is the line that has me rolling my eyes:

'On Monday, Clinton charged Obama "started running for president the day he arrived in the U.S. Senate," and in his "rush to campaign" has missed key Senate votes."



Did anyone think Hillary looked forward to a 40 year Senate career?

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

2. Ugly politics, but perennially effective. As LBJ said: "At least make the SOB deny it."

[MethuenProgressive]

3. Obama is calling Iowans "liars"?

:popcorn:

[AtomicKitten]

4. "fresh accusation leveled by the campaign of Sen. Hillary Clinton"

enough said

[Debi]

5. Death of a thousand paper cuts.

The Clinton camp isn't trying to 'catch' the Obama campaign in any shenanigans, they are just throwing whatever they can at his campaign and hoping something sticks. Running for President since Kindergarten, busing in out of state voters, dirty phone callers all designed to move a few caucus-goers away from Obama. The 'soft' Obama supporters don't even need to go directly to Clinton, just need to keep Obama out of that #1 spot in the Three Golden Tickets out of Iowa. Go back to what Gephardt did to Dean in 2004. That's all this is. Messy, dirty politics. I guess we'll see if it works on January 3rd.