Jul 6th, 2009 - The Huffington Post
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Afghanistan is set to hold its presidential election on August 20, and the leading challenger to President Hamid Karzai, a former finance minister and bureaucrat Ashraf Ghani, is taking some guidance from U.S. campaigns.
Last week, U.S. News & World Report noted that Ghani has "embarked on an Internet fundraising campaign modeled on that run by President Obama."
The U.S. News report also noted that Ghani's campaign had been in talks with Democratic political consultant James Carville. Bloomberg News reports today that Carville is headed to Afghanistan for initial strategy talks:
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