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Thursday, December 6, 2007

Oppo on Huckabee Already in Play

Huckabee's opponents did not wait long to pull the trigger with the oppo research. This article in the New York Times details the first issue: A convicted rapist that was released while Huckabee was governor later sexually assaulted and murdered a woman in Missouri. Huckabee had written a letter to the rapist while he was incarcerated saying "My desire is that you be released from prison."

The article drew parallels to the way strategist Lee Atwater smeared Michael Dukakis in 1988 with the Willie Horton debacle.

As Prof Pitney says, "welcome to the NFL".

Geoff
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