WASHINGTON — The early border skirmishes of Campaign 2012 are reviving questions about one candidate's former pastor and shining a spotlight on the other's high school hijinks.

In a campaign year when voters have declared the economy their top concern, President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are on notice that there's no statute of limitations on the issues or conduct that might be used against them.

And there's sure to be somebody with money or other means to insert even low-threshold matters into the political dialogue.

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Thursday's disclosure that a Republican-leaning super PAC was considering a $10 million ad campaign highlighting Obama's past links to inflammatory preacher Jeremiah Wright was just the latest evidence that if there ever were limits on what was fair game in a campaign, they're largely history.

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