During Current TV’s “Politically Direct 2012″ Iowa caucuses coverage, Al Gore talks about how many negative ads are running against President Obama in his home state of Tennessee. Gore likened the strategy to both that used against Newt Gingrich in Iowa — where 45 percent of all negative ads targeted Gingrich — and how Clinton/Gore went after Bob Dole in rural areas in 1996.
“There’s so much corporate money and special-interest money on the other side trying to defeat President Obama,” Gore says. “We can’t lose sight of what a big factor that is of trying to tilt the playing field for the general election.”
