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Rudy Giuliani doing robocalls accusing Senator Obama of being soft on crime

By Douglas A. Berman

Earlier this month there were reports that Senator McCain was going to resort to old-school "soft-on-crime" attacks as part of his strategy to get back his mojo in the final month of the 2008 campaign.  Thanks to reporting by Politico, we now are starting to see the specifics of the Big Mac attack on the crime front.  First, as detailed here and here, the Republican Party of Florida has paid for a flier that alleges in various ways that Senator Obama would be soft on crime.  And now, as reported here and here, everyone's old pal and favorite mayor is getting into the act: "Rudy Giuliani is portraying Barack Obama as soft on crime in robocalls being blasted out to swing states by the RNC and the McCain campaign...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on October 22, 2008 (boomark / email).