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Obama embraces super PAC funding, despite past criticisms

By Shira Schoenberg

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  February 07, 2012

President Obama is putting a renewed focus on raising money through his super political action committee, after fundraising figures showed the Democratic president falling far behind his Republican rivals in super PAC fundraising. Obama campaign manager Jim Messina wrote on the Obama campaign blog that Obama dislikes the current campaign financing system, but Democrats cannot play by two sets of rules.

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