Jeremiah Wright
Cory Booker attacks Obama ads on 'Meet the Press,' then posts a make-up on YouTube
President Obama's re-election campaign has tried to argue that the anti-Bain Capital offensive it launched last week isn't meant as a broader attack on the private equity industry as a whole, but not all of his surrogates are willing to thread the same needle. More
(2)Conservative super PACs are coming home to roost
Mitt Romney says he wants to focus on the economy, but that's easier said than done.
First there was the same-sex marriage issue, which gave way today to a super PAC plan to fund an ad campaign about Obama's former association with Jeremiah Wright.
Romney denounced the ad campaign and the billionaire who was reportedly going to fund it, Joe Ricketts, followed suit. More
Joe Ricketts and the war on message
A funny corollary to the rise of corporate-backed super PACs is that they have, at times, been enormously inconvenient for political campaigns wishing to spoon-feed narratives to the media. More
Messina to Romney: You're no John McCain
President Obama's campaign manager, Jim Messina, emailed a statement this morning reacting to the New York Times report that the conservative activist (and owner of DNAInfo) Joe Ricketts is considering an aggressive assault on the president's character, including incendiary clips of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright that John McCain reportedly declined to employ during the 2008 campaign. More
With an anti-Obama attack plan, DNAinfo owner Joe Ricketts comes out of his shell
One thing not mentioned in today's bombshell article in The New York Times about billionaire Joe Ricketts, the man behind a Super PAC campaign to revive the issue of pastor Jeremiah Wright in the 2012 election cycle? More
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