negative campaigning: March 2008 Archives

While in the Illinois Senate, Obama cast some very bad out-of-the-mainstream votes, including one where he was the only member of the Senate to vote against a bill to get tough against sexual predators. Thus far Obama has claimed that he cast these bad votes by “mistake”, hitting the wrong lever.
 

This could be damaging because up to this point, Obama scored much higher than Hillary in the honesty department. His excuse for casting these bad votes will not be believed by the voters and could be the first major crack in his “honesty and integrity” armor.