The NY Timesreports that the Obama campaign is having
trouble meeting its ambitious fundraising goals after its decision
not to accept public financing. And Marc Ambinder writes that now Team Obama is quietly embracing
outside 527 groups. If you recall, when Obama broke his pledge to
accept public financing, his justification was that the system was
broken, and that he needed money to fight Republican outside groups
that were out to slime him. Now it turns out that he won't take
public money and he'll be relying on
outside groups.