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June 22, 2008

Who has Obama alienated by skipping public financing? [Karl]

The Politico’s Kenneth P. Vogel reports: Obama’s announcement Thursday that he would become the first candidate to opt out of the public financing program for the general election was a big deal for some of the nation’s most influential newspaper editorial boards, which have long been ardent champions of campaign finance reform and which had thought they’d found a kindred spirit on the issue. Friday morning, scathing editorials in many