Huff Post reports that Hillary allies may dump millions into an anti-Obama 527:
[S]ome top independent expenditure groups supporting Clinton have been exploring the creation of an anti-Obama "527 committee" that would take unlimited contributions from a few of Clinton's super-rich backers and from a handful of unions to finance television ads and direct mail designed to tarnish the Illinois Senator's image.That sounds an awful lot like the Swift Boat model. And while everyone expects, and hopes, that the Dems will use 527s this year just as adeptly as the Republicans did in 2004 against John Kerry, I'm not so sure we want to see Democrats using them against fellow Democrats, especially when the end result could be a damaged candidate in the general election.
Also interesting in the Huff Post story, Hillary may be giving up on South Carolina and Nevada in order to focus on Super Tuesday.
A panicked and cash-short Clinton campaign is seriously considering giving up on the Nevada caucuses and on the South Carolina primary in order to regroup and to save resources for the massive 19-state mega-primary on February 5.Absolutely fascinating turn of events.
