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NEWS ABOUT: Lee Atwater

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OPINION

McCain Resorts to Atwater's Bag of Dirty Tricks

They're trying to turn Obama into Willie Horton, Dowd writes

Oct 8, 08 11:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - Before Karl Rove, Maureen Dowd reminds us, it was Lee Atwater who masterminded the Republican smear campaign, and his demolition of Michael Dukakis was his greatest, dirtiest success. Atwater painted the 1988 candidate as a weak Harvard-educated elitist with a weird last name, a man who supported "the Scary... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • race • smear campaign • Maureen Dowd • Michael Dukakis • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin • Willie Horton • Lee Atwater

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