Clinton employs famous Mondale ad strategy

It worked for Walter Mondale. Can it work for Hillary Clinton? Trying to alter the dynamics of a primary race she is losing, Clinton ripped a page out of Mondale's 1984 campaign playbook yesterday by airing a new TV ad in Texas that suggests her younger, less experienced rival, Barack Obama, is not ready to be commander in chief. (Full article: 910 words)

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