Has the Obama Campaign Been Astroturfing?
Ace is promoting a news story that should be coming out later this evening about Barack Obama’s top campaign honcho David Axelrod. The story apparently will carry some substantiated allegations tht Axelrod has been violating electioneering laws thanks to a thing called “astroturfing”.
Essentially, the story seems to be that Alexrod has a history, not only with Barack Obama’s campaign, but other Democratic campaigns, of being a whole lot close to several ads that were made and released by supposedly unaffiliated people or groups. Also, Axelrod seems to have done the same thing on the behalf of some corporations that normally would be bogeymen to the left.
Some of the background of the story is here. The upshot of the whole thing is that Axelrod working for the Obama campaign, has been doing some dirty and possibly even illegal advertising work.
Jim Treacher has been on this for a little while, but this story is likely to go into much greater details. It’s likely to name some very specific names and put some people on the record.
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