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Article: Key debate tonight as race gets personal ; Obama attacks on ethics after assault by McCain
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 7, 2008
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CAMPAIGN 2008
Senator Barack Obama, facing a broad new assault on his character
from rival John McCain and the Republican Party, punched back
aggressively yesterday with a multi-pronged attack on McCain's
ethics, marking a sharp, personal turn in the presidential race as
the two candidates face off tonight in their second debate.
Obama's campaign raised, for the first time, McCain's involvement
in the Keating Five controversy, an influence-peddling scandal in
Congress 20 years ago that remains a major blemish on the Arizona
senator's political career. In an unusual 13-minute Internet
documentary, a new website, and an e-mail to hundreds of thousands