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Classact
05-29-2008, 11:03 AM
If Obama uses the same tactics on Hillary that he is on record for in this article he could lose most of Hillary's voters for his hardball tactics.

In his first race for office, seeking a state senate seat on Chicago's gritty South Side in 1996, Obama effectively used election rules to eliminate his Democratic competition.

As a community organizer, he had helped register thousands of new voters. But when it came time to run for office, he employed Chicago rules to invalidate the voting petition signatures of three of his challengers.

The move denied each of them, including incumbent Alice Palmer, a longtime Chicago activist, a place on the ballot. It cleared the way for Obama to run unopposed on the Democratic ticket in a heavily Democrat district.
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/29/obamas.first.campaign/index.html?eref=rss_politics

red states rule
05-29-2008, 12:26 PM
If Obama uses the same tactics on Hillary that he is on record for in this article he could lose most of Hillary's voters for his hardball tactics.

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/29/obamas.first.campaign/index.html?eref=rss_politics

Seems Barry is hard on political opponents - Soft of terrorists