townhall.com - 8/22/2008
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So Barack Obama is running an ad to try to link John McCain with Ralph Reed -- whom they call a "Republican power broker" -- as a way to suggest that McCain was somehow implicated (by osmosis, I guess) in the Jack...
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MORNING READ John McCain's counterattack on Barack Obama in the debate over his multiple houses has conservative bloggers pleased. And with both candidates ready to announce running mates, bloggers on both sides contemplate two very familiar possibilities, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.). Obama's criticism of McCain for not knowing how many houses he has and for his ties to Ralph Reed, the former business partner to Jack Abramoff, has opened the door to McCain's new attack on the Democrat for his connections to convicted felon Tony Rezko, who sold Obama property, writes Townhall's Carol Platt ...
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McCain vs. Obama: House Party 7 (or 8) —
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Obama: Here come the shadowy ads —
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An conservative group, the American Issues Project, announced it will be airing TV ads highlighting Obama’s (tenuous) ties to former ‘60s radical William Ayers, the New York Times writes. “One of [the group’s] founders, Ed Failor Jr., is the executive ...
Battleground: Obama up seven in MI —
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Poll: Obama leads in Michigan —
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Sen. Obama is leading in Michigan according to a new poll.
(CNN) - Sen. Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee, is leading in the battleground state of Michigan, according to a poll released Friday.
Obama leads Sen. John McCain, the ...
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