At this point four years ago, John Kerry had already been Swift Boated and MoveOn was branding President Bush a Vietnam War dodger, two of the bigger stories to emerge from the 2004 campaign cycle. But to this point in the 2008 campaign, the so-called 527s, tax-exempt groups that throw their weight behind certain candidates or issues during a campaign, have been relatively quiet. Instead, itâ??s been the campaigns themselves doing most of the advertising, according to Ken Goldstein, director of the Wisconsin Advertising Project, which has been tracking this electionâ??s ads closely.
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