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How the Obama Campaign Sabotaged Romney in the 2012 GOP Primary
Tweet Share on Facebook December 5, 2012 CommentCAMBRIDGE, MASS.—During the prolonged 2008 Democratic primary between then Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, Rush Limbaugh gleefully launched "Operation Chaos" encouraging Republicans to vote in the Democratic primary in order to extend what was assumed to be a harmful race for the Democrats. Four years later Obama's team decided to inject a little chaos of its own into the Republican presidential primary.
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Behind the Scenes in the Obama-Romney Campaign
Tweet Share on Facebook December 5, 2012 CommentCAMBRIDGE, MASS.—For all the talk over the past year of the unfathomable expense of the 2012 presidential election, the two campaigns were painfully aware of the finitude of their financial resources. And that led to a key strategic split between the two campaigns: Was it better to spend early or husband resources for the final push? The Obama campaign made a $65 million bet on going early, and it paid off.
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White House Petitioned for a Death Star
Tweet Share on Facebook December 3, 2012 CommentI've written previously about some of the wacky petitions that are cropping up on the White House's "We the People" website but I came across one today which should really get bipartisan support as a massive government jobs program which liberals could love while also appealing to prodefense conservatives. I refer, of course, to the petition demanding that the United States start construction of a Star Wars Death Star by 2016.
