LAT: RNC "Austin Powers" email v. DNC balloon-cartoon email

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THE NATION
Partisan Swipes Traded by E-Mail

By Nick Anderson, Times Staff Writer


WASHINGTON — Republicans likened John F. Kerry to the comic movie character Austin Powers on Friday in a short video e-mailed to GOP partisans that describes the presumed Democratic presidential candidate as an "international man of mystery."

For their part, Democrats circulated an e-mail to their supporters that uses a cartoon format to criticize President Bush for allowing the federal budget deficit to balloon.

The e-mails sent by the Republican and Democratic national committees showed how the two parties are searching this year for fresh ways to communicate with activists and attract attention to their messages at low expense.

Also Friday, the Republican National Committee began placing online advertisements on selected websites that attacked Kerry's vote last year against an $87-billion bill to fund military operations and reconstruction of Afghanistan and Iraq. Kerry supported an alternative version of the bill that would have raised taxes on the wealthiest Americans to help pay for the spending bill....


http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-webmar20,1,1687859.story?coll=la-home-politics