Political Attacks: Mutually Assured Destruction? – Roll Call

Political Attacks: Mutually Assured Destruction?

By Madison Powers and CQ Guest Columnist

Posted October 8, 2008 at 12:00am

behind in the polls
seems to find
otherwise reasonable complaint
accusing Obama
Charles Keating
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Madison Powers is Senior Research Scholar, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University. His column appears each Wednesday in CQ Politics.

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