online.wsj.com - 10/30/2008
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Well, will families making less than $250,000 get a tax cut under President Obama, or not? Senator Obama has been saying this for months, but on Monday Joe Biden put the tax-cut income threshold at $150,000 in an interview with a TV station in his beloved Scranton, Pennsylvania. The Biden ...
blogs.abcnews.com - 11/3/2008
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ABC News' Matthew Jaffe Reports: On Election Eve,
Sen. Joe Biden, D-DE., said that in the past...
two and a half months since Sen. Barack Obama, D-IL, selected him as running mate, he has been "value-added" to the Democratic ticket...
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Biden: No 'Real Gaffes' as VP
article.nationalreview.com - 10/25/2008
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McCain Leads on the Economy With 5 Days Left
Weekly Standard Blog —
... , and Biden has just lowered the Obama campaign's "wealthy" mark to $150,000, it's a mighty good time for things to be looking up for him. ...
Newsweek CW Shrugs Shoulders at Biden Gaffes, Scoffs Palin's 'Lack of Gravitas'
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... arrow for the Democratic vice presidential contender while giving the thumbs down to Gov. Sarah Palin for "sink[ing]" the campaign with a "lack of gravitas."
In doing so, the CW feature dismissed the damaging impact of Sen. Joe Biden's "rhetorical flourishes", including lowering the tax bar the Democratic campaign previously had set at $250,000 as the individual earner threshold for an Obama tax hike.
As the Wall Street Journal noted on October 29, the "'tax cut' threshold keeps falling": ...
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