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Obama Camp Feared "Half-Billion Dollar' Koch-Led Attack

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In a conference call with reporters explaining their move, senior officials repeatedly invoked the Koch spectre, referencing reports of a recent conference in which the conservative billionaires secured $100 million in pledges from wealthy donors to support Obama's Republican challenger. Combined with the Rove-founded American Crossroads' goal of raising as much as $240 million ($50 million of which they raised in 2011), the campaign said they were concerned they would be swamped by as much as a 'half billion dollars' in 'Karl Rove/Koch Brothers unlimited spending,' most of which they expected to be devoted to negative ads.

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