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Loading Up For 2012

by David Kurtz
11.10.10 | 9:52 am

A big question for 2012 is whether President Obama will continue to resist creation of outside groups on the left to rival American Crossroads and similar big-spending attack groups on the right. There have been signals that Obama is softening. Now David Brock is actively pitching the creation of such a group on the left, Greg Sargent reports.

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