Signs are Pointing to Obama Campaign having Dirt on Romney Finances

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112. It's part of a larger strategy

Whether there's fire behind all that smoke doesn't matter.

What matters is that the Republicans want the campaign to be about
the freedom to make hundreds of millions of dollars in a free market economy
without regard for working people's jobs.

Democrats know how those large sums will separate a lot of independents
and even a few Republican voters from Mitt's column.

It really boils down to privilege, and Mitt is being painted as a candidate of
extraordinary privilege, wealth, unaccountability.

I was not optimistic a month ago about Democrats' chances.

Today I see that old Obama Campaign Magic. They anticipate issues well,
they float trial balloons and let the opposition waste their load, they have a
visceral feel for where to hit hardest to maximize effect, and they have an
outstanding sense of political timing. If you can dictate the issues, you're halfway
home, because the other party spends their time answering you instead of
defining you. Contrast this with the Dukakis-Bentsen Summer of Silence, 1988.

Who are the architects behind this year's brilliance? Where was it in 1988, 2000, 2004?

It's as if Democrats have grown up enough to play hardball.