Really?
From Mike Allen's Playbook, (CNN, too)
(His way of dealing with the public financing flap? I mean, there's no way the GOP would match this.)
Later: The more I think about this, the better this is.
McCain has committed to public financing (limiting him to $85 million in the last 2 months.) The assumption has always been that the RNC would make up the difference, and now Obama is trying to pressure them into limiting their take. They won't, so he gets the talking point that McCain/GOP is funded by lobbyists, PAC's, and Washington insiders.
That beats the public financing pledge.
Obama "will announce today that the Democratic National Committee will no longer accept contributions from federal lobbyists or PACs -- consistent with the policy of his campaign. His declaration makes it clear that he will try to make the influence of Washington insiders one of his key arguments against Senator McCain."
(His way of dealing with the public financing flap? I mean, there's no way the GOP would match this.)
Later: The more I think about this, the better this is.
McCain has committed to public financing (limiting him to $85 million in the last 2 months.) The assumption has always been that the RNC would make up the difference, and now Obama is trying to pressure them into limiting their take. They won't, so he gets the talking point that McCain/GOP is funded by lobbyists, PAC's, and Washington insiders.
That beats the public financing pledge.
posted by mikevotes at
8:36 AM
2 Comments:
I was thinking the public financing angle as well.
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-epm, at 10:21 AM
Yeah. Plus, since this money goes primarily top the parties not the campaigns, it would likely affect the GOP more since it has been doing better fundraising.
Pretty shrewd politics.
By
mikevotes, at 10:46 AM
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