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No question about it, this is the election that will be bought by billionaires.
The Obama campaign will be outspent by a sizable amount.
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Billionaire won't air Obama-Wright campaign ads
By BETH FOUHY., Associated Press – 3 minutes ago
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — The billionaire said to be weighing a proposal to resurrect incendiary comments by President Barack Obama's former pastor shelved the idea Thursday after Obama and Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney denounced the tactic.
An aide to Joe Ricketts, founder of TD Ameritrade, said the proposal to draw the Rev. Jeremiah Wright into the presidential campaign — and the issue of race, by extension — went too far.
The New York Times reported Thursday that Ricketts' Ending Spending Action Fund, a conservative super PAC, was considering a proposal for a $10 million TV ad campaign highlighting Wright's sermons.
The blueprint, titled "The Defeat of Barack Hussein Obama: the Ricketts Plan to End His Spending For Good," was devised by a group of Republican strategists, one of whom confirmed its contents for The Associated Press on condition of anonymity to discuss private working sessions.
Brian Baker, president of the super PAC, said Ricketts was not the author of the 54-page plan. Baker blamed consultants.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...a5f046debedb8b
No question about it, this is the election that will be bought by billionaires.
The Obama campaign will be outspent by a sizable amount.
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Billionaire won't air Obama-Wright campaign ads
By BETH FOUHY., Associated Press – 3 minutes ago
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — The billionaire said to be weighing a proposal to resurrect incendiary comments by President Barack Obama's former pastor shelved the idea Thursday after Obama and Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney denounced the tactic.
An aide to Joe Ricketts, founder of TD Ameritrade, said the proposal to draw the Rev. Jeremiah Wright into the presidential campaign — and the issue of race, by extension — went too far.
The New York Times reported Thursday that Ricketts' Ending Spending Action Fund, a conservative super PAC, was considering a proposal for a $10 million TV ad campaign highlighting Wright's sermons.
The blueprint, titled "The Defeat of Barack Hussein Obama: the Ricketts Plan to End His Spending For Good," was devised by a group of Republican strategists, one of whom confirmed its contents for The Associated Press on condition of anonymity to discuss private working sessions.
Brian Baker, president of the super PAC, said Ricketts was not the author of the 54-page plan. Baker blamed consultants.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...a5f046debedb8b