Obama’s Paper Trail

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When Barack Obama last ran for president, he didn’t have much of a paper trail. He’d only been a state senator and U.S. senator for a few years, and had done a pretty good job of keeping his head down. Obama had not published much and had hardly been quoted. Now, however, there’s a large trove of promises and statements, dating back four years (the first year running for president, and the last three since taking office).

That record is what the Republican National Committee will be using to try to defeat Obama this time around. The Washington Post reports:

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