“Fight the Smears”: Obama’s Cyber Space Strategy

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"Fight the Smears": Obama's Cyber Space Strategy
      

It is a truism in national campaigns that the most deadly attack is the one that goes unanswered.  Clinton understood this, and in his first presidential campaign, his organization made it a point to respond immediately and comprehensively to every charge made by the Bush campaign.  

Obama seems to be taking this to the next level, establishing a venue where supporters can post examples of rumors, innuendoes, and charges that are making their way around the political world---either overtly as part of news stories or more covertly through the mysterious ways of cyber space.  Will it work?

         

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