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Column: Anti-Obama ads with Tar Heel ties

Publication: Raleigh News & Observer

Chris Fitzsimon
October 15, 2008

RALEIGH - It is virtually impossible to keep up with all the advocacy groups weighing in on this election, running ads for and against candidates for governor, president and Congress. The names of the groups in the database at the Federal Elections Commission read like a list of vague, focus-group words designed to say nothing.