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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (829)	2/5/2004 11:39:20 AM
From: JakeStraw	Respond to of 81568

AS, You still owe me an apology...

To: American Spirit who wrote (829)	2/5/2004 11:54:43 AM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

More like Kerry owes Dean an apology for the dirty tricks campaign his operatives have been waging. Check the shenanigans Kerry has been pulling in Iowa and New Hampshire. Who is robo-calling against Dean? by kos Fri Jan 30th, 2004 at 00:49:18 GMT It's no secret that Dean has faced some nasty robo-calling and push-polling in Iowa and NH, as well as NM and elsewhere. This exerpt from an upcoming GQ article gives a glimpse of what Dean has faced over the last few weeks: Fast forward to the days before IA: Trippi's "cell phone rings. It's his pollster, Paul Maslin, who not only has bleak news out of Iowa -- but bleak news out of New Hampshire. Trippi hangs up and stares out the window. His phone rings again. "WHAT? Aw, fuck. I hate this business. This fucking sucks. Okay, thanks." He hangs up. "They're robocalling our ones," he moans. "He has just gotten a report from the field that Dean "ones" are getting bombarded with computer-generated phone calls telling them to make sure to caucus for Dean-then giving them the wrong address." Who would do such a thing? "Kerry," Trippi snaps. "They're the only asshole snake campaign that would do it. Every frickin' day now, I'm reminded of why I got out of this in the first place. The Dean campaign keeps fingering the Kerry camp, and it's hard to see who else might be responsible. The calls were targeted at Dean in Iowa and NH -- the two states that were must-wins for both Dean and Kerry. Gephardt might've been behind a robo-calling effort in Iowa, but he'd have no reason to do the same in NH. Who else, the Republicans? Problem is that by all reports, these robo calls have specifically targeted Dean's "1s" and "2s". That level of sophistication would require an extent of polling unlikely from the GOP. Only Kerry would have conducted the type of polling identifying levels of support for Dean in both Iowa and NH. So it's all anecdotal, but the evidence suggests dirty tricks from the Kerry campaign. The thought literally makes me want to puke (some of the calls suggest Dean is not a real Christian because he's married to a Jew). None of the other candidates have faced this type of puke tactics, so there's only one guy engaging in it. God help Kerry if real evidence emerges. dailykos.com And check this link-filled paragraph Dirty Kerry Tricks in Iowa and New Hampshire? I'm not sure this story is going to go away, especially if reporters are left with little else to write about. ... Here's a Tapper report from Iowa two weeks ago. .... And a Daily Kos entry. ... and another from a slightly bitter Deaniac ("we didn't robocall other candidates supporters at 4am, we didn't push poll anyone, we played fair and square"). .... It's hard to suppress this sort of scandal these days. Even if the mainstream press initially ignores it it will keep bubbling in the blogs until someone in the mainstream picks it up. ... Update: Here's another one of those overzealous Kerry volunteers who act entirely on their own without any direction from the Kerry campaign! ... 9:07 A.M. slate.msn.com