The more I see Hillary Clinton's campaign following the example of Karl Rove, attacking her opponent's strengths with ridiculous allegations, the more I worry that she'll eventually land the kind of knockout punch that killed John McCain's chances in the 2000 Republican primaries.
Yes, I hate to say it, but I'm worried about these rumors that Barack Obama may have fathered a black child.
The year was 2000, and John McCain had won the New Hampshire and Michigan primaries. He was poised to finish off George W. Bush in South Carolina. And then the rumors started...
Anonymous opponents used "push polling" to suggest that McCain's Bangladeshi born daughter was his own, illegitimate black child. In push polling, a voter gets a call, ostensibly from a polling company, asking which candidate the voter supports. In this case, if the "pollster" determined that the person was a McCain supporter, he made statements designed to create doubt about the senator.
What if the rumors start again?
What if people start suggesting that Barrack Obama may have fathered a black child?
