Obama Launches Website to Track "Hillary Attacks"


	Obama Launches Website to Track "Hillary Attacks"

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12-5-2007 12:18 PM

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The minisite, simply named <A href="http://hillaryattacks.barackobama.com">Hillary Attacks</A>, catalogs negative newspaper articles, speeches and press releases that the New York senator's campaign has issued that the Obama campaign says are personal attacks on Obama's character.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/12/hillary_attacks">
"Today we're launching a website that will keep track of all the attacks Senator Clinton has launched since she said she wasn't interested in attacking other Democrats at the Jefferson-Jackson Dinner on November 10," campaign manager David Plouffe <A href="http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post_group/ObamaHQ/CRhV">wrote</A>  </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/12/hillary_attacks">
This is a "very, very impressive effort to enlist the full range of online campaign tools to exploit Hillary's biggest mistake in the campaign to date, which was to go after Obama's personal history (as opposed to his record and rhetoric) and say it was fun," notes Michael Cornfield, vice president of research and media strategy at consulting firm 720 Strategies in Washington D.C. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/12/hillary_attacks">Negative campaigning has traditionally turned voters off</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/12/hillary_attacks">polling shows that Iowans believe Clinton runs the most negative campaign. </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1CF290EF-F005-4C48-B430-B07E26BA0AF9/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>