“When you have a party that says coded things, that makes totally false
ads up, falsely saying the president is trying to undo welfare reform, I
think you’re going to see a lot of heavily and not-so-subtly coded
messages from the Romney-Ryan campaign.”
— Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley (D), in an interview on CNN’s State
of the Union, accusing the Romney campaign of playing dog whistle politics.