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Originally Posted by jefelump
I think Obama's Swift Boat equivalent will be the gun control issues in Chicago, since he was a state senator there. He supported Chicago's bans, so the NRA and others will attack him on it, and the Left will say we're "swift boating" him. It's a classic tactic of attacking your attacker and taking national attention away from the real issue.
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Bear in mind that this will only apply to people who think the gun control debate is a big deal. In that respect it is markedly different from Kerry's military experience, since he made that a cornerstone of his campaign.