The Papers
Updated Electoral Map: Obama at 315
Fifteen days remain in the presidential race and the electoral map appears to be hardening in Barack Obama‘s favor with the Illinois senator playing offense in a number of red states while John McCain has largely retreated within the borders of the 2004 map that gave President George W. Bush a second term. Overall, we […]
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Obama Raised Record $150 Million in September
By Kate Phillips The Obama campaign announced this morning that it had raised a record $150 million last month, and had added 632,000 new donors to its total. The amount shattered the campaign’s previous record from August. The McCain campaign also had a record-breaking month in August, but is now operating with the $84 million […]
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Obama Leads McCain in Newspaper Endorsements
By Shailagh Murray ST. LOUIS, Mo. — Sen. Barack Obama has opened up a massive lead over Sen. John McCain in newspaper endorsements. According to the Democratic Web site DemConWatch, Obama has secured support from 55 editorial boards, including from 10 newspapers that backed President Bush in 2004. One big coup: the Chicago Tribune, which […]
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Polls Cause Campaigns to Change Their Itineraries
Confronting an increasingly bleak electoral map, top aides to Senator John McCain said Thursday that they were searching for a “narrow-victory scenario” and would focus in the final weeks on a dwindling number of states, using mailings, telephone calls and television advertisements to try to tear away support from Senator Barack Obama. Skip to next […]
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Joe The Plumber Don’t Wear White Tie
But Barack Obama and John McCain do. And they don’t just look funny. They talk funny. This is from the Al Smith charity dinner Thursday night. Read Full Post and View Videos Here
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Friday Senate Line: Democratic Domination
The National Republican Senatorial Committee’s decision to pull down its advertising in Louisiana effectively ensures that Senate GOPers will be playing only defense between today and Election Day. As a result, we have updated our Friday Senate Line to reflect the current state of affairs; all ten seats listed below are held by Republicans and, […]
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The Early Word: The Final Weeks
By Michael Falcone The presidential candidates are positioning themselves for the closing weeks of the campaign, setting a course for Nov. 4 that will take them through key states but with very different strategies in mind. The Times’s Adam Nagourney and Jim Rutenberg report that McCain aides were holding out hope for a “narrow-victory scenario” […]
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Obama Invokes Granite State Lessons
Senator Barack Obama offered fresh words of wisdom today for any of his supporters who are feeling overly confident with the presidential race: New Hampshire. “For those of you who are feeling giddy or cocky or think this is all set, I just have two words for you: New Hampshire,” Mr. Obama told top contributors […]
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Undecideds Laughing At, Not With, McCain
From TIME’s Amy Sullivan: In politics it is generally not considered a good sign when voters are laughing at you, not with you. And by the end of the third and last presidential debate, the undecided voters who had gathered in Denver for Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg’s focus group were “audibly snickering” at John McCain’s […]
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Obama Warns Supporters Against Overconfidence
By Shailagh Murray NEW YORK — Sen. Barack Obama urged supporters at a fundraiser this morning not to grow complacent in the final days of the campaign. “For those of you who are feeling giddy or cocky or think this is all set, I just have two words for you: New Hampshire,” Obama told top […]
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Debate Expectations
The CW this morning seems to anticipate fireworks (any one see today’s cover of the New York Daily News?) in the last presidential debate tonight: another Hail Mary pass from John McCain, though in exactly what form is anybody’s guess. As Maureen Dowd noted on GMA: McCain needs a big rabbit out of a small […]
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And Now For Something Completely Different
John Cleese is not a conservative. Now the hard question: Does European disdain help or hurt McCain at this point? UPDATE: Meanwhile in Kansas, the Democratic Senate candidate, Jim Slattery, has broken new ground by cutting an ad that depicts Sen. Pat Roberts pissing on voters. I can’t wait for the next ad, featuring “Number […]
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Biden Turns Up Heat on McCain in Ohio Stops
By Perry Bacon Jr. MARIETTA, Ohio — Early in his campaigning as the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, Sen. Joe Biden noted often that John McCain was a longtime Senate colleague and “a friend,” and his rhetoric focused on their differences on policy. Even now, in a speech here today, Biden said, “John McCain is a genuine […]
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The Early Word: The Cost of Going Negative
Just hours away from the third and final presidential debate and less than three weeks from Election Day, a New York Times/CBS News polls finds that the increasingly negative tone of the campaign waged by Senator John McCain appears to be resonating with voters — but not in the way the Republican nominee hoped. The […]
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Executions in Saudi Arabia Quadruple, Amnesty Says
There was a surge in executions in Saudi Arabia last year, according to an Amnesty International report released Tuesday. The kingdom put at least 158 people to death last year, a sharp increase from the 39 executions the human rights group monitored in 2006 (the yearly totals had been under 100 since 2001). The statistics […]
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The Latest on the Polls
OBAMA 53, MCCAIN 39 Bring on the hate speech Senator McCain and Governor Palin – you are showing your stripes. The American people are happy that you have chosen to show yourself honestly – the picture does not match the words – but we get the picture.
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Treasury Chief Says Banks Must Deploy New Capital
WASHINGTON — Describing the government’s financial bailout plan as “extensive, powerful and transformative,” Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. said on Tuesday that the injection of $250 billion into the nation’s banks was needed to restore confidence and avoid a collapse of the financial system. Read Full Post Here
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Not Just a Hockey Mom: Palin Embraces Sports Mothers of All Stripes
SCRANTON, Pa. — GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin is expanding her political base. At the GOP convention in St. Paul, Minn., she was all about the hockey moms. But this afternoon, as she made her way to the stage at Scranton’s Riverfront Sports Complex, the Astroturf on the floor reminded her that she needed […]
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Group Answers Charges of Voter Registration Fraud
A prominent community organizing group and representatives of the McCain campaign held dueling news conferences in Washington on Tuesday to press their cases in a simmering controversy over allegations of fraudulent voter registrations. Former Republican Senators John C. Danforth and Warren Rudman, who chair the McCain campaign’s Honest and Open Elections Committee, warned of a […]
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Mickey Mouse Complaints
With three weeks to go, and absentee voting well underway, both campaigns — and outside group — have been asking voters and the media to look at the possibility of election fraud. At McCain rallies, supporters intone “ACORN” and “FBI! FBI!” with increasing regularity. And, it’s true, ACORN — a predominately left-leaning group with (limited) […]
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Gallup’s New Likely Voters Model
In an effort to measure the impact of Obama’s candidacy on the electorate, especially among young and minority voters, Gallup has begun publishing presidential tracking poll results based on two different “likely voter” models. Read Full Post Here
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