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MORNING READ
News — MORNING READ The latest national polls showing a tightening race between Barack Obama and John McCain worry Obama's online supporters. McCain hears it from conservative bloggers trying to warn him away from picking Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and any other pro-choice politician as his running mate. But a Washington Post story highlighting Obama's stance on abortion pleases the pro-life bloggers. Obama's lead is just two percentage points in the latest Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg national poll, thanks to McCain's success in rallying the GOP base behind him, writes DemFromCT at Daily Kos. Obama's message, which has gone from emphasizing ...

The Morning Scramble - 8/20/2008
No Runny Eggs — ... McCain/Loserman, Part 1 - Carol Platt Liebau thinks it’s brilliant strategery to keep Joe Lieberman in the mix. It’s more like stragedy; while I can’t speak for anybody else, I won’t be fooled into thinking McCain’s choice is more conservative just because he considered picking somebody who still caucuses with the ‘Rats in the Senate. ...

Carol Platt Liebau: McCain and the Jewish Vote
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — Last night, I mentioned that outreach to Jewish voters might be one reason McCain is keeping Joe Lieberman on his veep list . Indeed. Remarkably, it seems that Barack has the lowest numbers with Jewish voters since George McGovern (HT: Gateway Pundit). And apparently, the Obama campaign is somewhat panicky about all this -- Lynn Sweet at the Chicago Tribune has essentially transcribed the anti-McCain talking points designed to appeal to Jewish Americans, which are being zealously circulated by Obama staffers.