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Obama Campaign Aides Predict Nasty Attacks From Romney

With President Obama releasing a $25 million blitzkrieg of campaign ads, his top advisors David Axelrod and Jim Messina had a press conference call with reporters this morning to discuss his branding strategy. They said the president’s message this election cycle will focus on his record and his desire to keep the country progressing. Messrs. Messina and Axelrod contrasted this with Mitt Romney, who they predicted would lean on negative attacks because he, in Mr. Messina’s words, “truly has no record to run on.”

“We have a very simple choice between going forward and going back,” Mr. Messina said when describing the main message of the president’s new campaign commercials. Read More