liberaloasis.com - 10/15/2008
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After the last debate, Sen. Barack Obama noted the McCain campaign was making "over-the-top attacks ... that he wasn't willing to say it to my face." Today, McCain responded that "I think he's probably ensured that it [Bill Ayers] will come up this time," at tomorrow's final debate.
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realclearpolitics.com - 10/14/2008
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realclearpolitics.com —
I think this is McCain's key problem right
now. Here's a sample of some recent poll data.
First, Obama's net favorability is through the roof. Rasmussen has him at +13, Hotline/Diageo at +14, but others like Fox and ABC News...
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To The Public, Obama Looking Like a President
swamppolitics.com - 10/14/2008
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swamppolitics.com —
By Paul West John McCain has few stronger
supporters than his younger brother Joe, who recently got
himself into hot water when he described the fiercely contested Northern Virginia suburbs as "communist country." But that remark pales beside ...
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"Let John McCain be John McCain," his brother pleads
blogs.tnr.com - 10/14/2008
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blogs.tnr.com —
John McCain's declaration that, thanks to Barack Obama's
gibes, he will bring up William Ayers at tomorrow
night's debate seems to me rather foolish on several grounds. First, it's hard to see how McCain wins an exchange on this subject. Polls have ...
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The Triple Dog Dare
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Bill Scher: McCain Campaign Manager In '04: "Nothing Is More Discomforting Than a Smear Campaign"
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... more discomforting than a smear campaign."
-- "It's not necessary, however, for a smear to be true to be effective."
-- "Rebutting tawdry attacks focuses public attention on them, and prevents the campaign from talking issues."
Davis went on to urge the 2004 presidential nominees "to publicly order their supporters not to go there," as that was "[t]he only way to stop the expected mud-slinging."
More on the change of heart from McCain and Davis over at LiberalOasis.
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Rick Davis Blasted Smear Campaigning In 2004
Newshoggers.com —
... But McCain also has another problem with "going there" - sheer hypocrisy from his campaign. As Bill Scher points out, Rick Davis penned a Boston Globe op-ed back in 2004 in which he urged Bush and Kerry to pressure their supporters ...
Did McCain Walk Into An Ayers Trap?
The Hollywood Liberal —
Did McCain Walk Into An Ayers Trap? After the last debate, Sen. Barack Obama noted the McCain campaign was making “over-the-top attacks … that he wasn’t willing to say it to my face.” ...
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McCain: Obama 'Probably Ensured' Debate on Ayers
blogs.abcnews.com 10/14/2008 — ABC News' Ron Claiborne, Teddy Davis, and Arnab Datta Report: Speaking to a St. Louis radio station on Tuesday, John McCain said that Barack Obama's recent suggestion that McCain does not have guts to raise the Bill Ayers issue to...
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York: I Am Not President Bush.
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Obama Campaign: Tonight's Debate Is McCain's "Last Chance"
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 10/15/2008 — The Obama campaign kicks off the pre-debate spin war with a memo from spokesperson Bill Burton that has a sly twist to it:
In tonight's debate, Chuck Todd of NBC News says, McCain needs to "figure out how to disqualify Barack Obama." Time ...
Will has no use for McCain
washingtonmonthly.com 10/30/2008 — WILL HAS NO USE FOR MCCAIN.... It's probably fair to say conservative columnist George Will has been thoroughly unimpressed by John McCain of late. He's blasted McCain for "behaving like a flustered rookie playing in a league too high." Will...
Who Do You Believe?
talkingpointsmemo.com 10/25/2008 — The McCain camp is denying that it was a campaign spokesperson who told local TV reporters in Pittsburgh that the "B" supposedly scrawled on the face of a young McCain campaign worker was a reference to "Barack" Obama, angrily carved into her face ...
Obama has 4-point lead on McCain —
Reuters: Politics 10/15/2008
HEMPSTEAD, New York (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama has a 4-point national lead over Republican John McCain as the White House rivals head into their final debate, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.
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