John McCain’s aides complain that Mitt Romney is running a negative campaign. Those same aides have been attacking Romney themselves, but for the most part they can outsource the negativism to their friends in the press — starting with the Union Leader, a prominent conservative newspaper in New Hampshire that has endorsed him. (We have endorsed Romney.)Touché.
The Union Leader’s advocacy of John McCain has become so fierce and lopsided that it has practically transformed itself into a pro-McCain 527 organization. It has not formalized the arrangement, which is lucky for it: If it had, McCain would, on his campaign-finance principles, have to try to shut it down.
Read on for more excellent points.
UPDATE: Race continues to shift in Iowa. Romney bounces back. RCP has latest poll. And in case you missed it, Dean Barnett takes apart the LA Times poll that was so favorable for Huckabee.
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