ABC News' Ron Claiborne reports: The Obama campaign is continuing to hammer Republican Sen. John McCain for former Christian Coalition director Ralph Reed's involvement in a McCain fundraising event in Atlanta. Democrats have been eager to point out that Reed was implicated with disgraced Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff in deals involving Indian casinos. McCain participated in the congressional probe of Abramoff's lobbying. Abramoff is now serving time at a minimum security federal prison in Maryland. "Faced with the embarrassing prospect of holding a fundraiser with one of Jack Abramoff’s closest associates, the McCain campaign scrambled today to scratch Ralph Reed from tonight’s program, but voters deserve to know the answers to the real questions raised by Reed’s involvement," said Obama campaign spokesman Tommy Vietor....
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