tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com - 10/21/2008
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Obama Cancels Campaign Events To Visit Ill Grandmother
Barack Obama is canceling his campaign events on Thursday and Friday, in order to visit his ailing grandmother in Hawaii. Madelyn Dunham's health has taken a turn for the worse, and the situation serious enough to merit the candidate ...
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tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 10/22/2008 — New McCain Ad: "I'm Joe The Plumber"
The new TV ad from John McCain, set to air in key states, features everyday people proclaiming their solidarity with Joe The Plumber against Barack Obama's tax policies:
One man reacts indignantly: ...
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tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 10/27/2008 — Obama To Deliver "Closing Argument" Speech
Barack Obama is rolling out his "closing argument" speech today, with the rhetorical points he will stress for the remainder of the campaign. There won't be any great substantive change, but this line from ...
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tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 11/3/2008 — Quinnipiac: Obama Ahead in Big Three
The final Quinnipiac polls of the largest three swing states give Barack Obama stable leads of various margins: Obama ahead by two points in Florida, 47%-45%, unchanged from a week ago; Obama ahead by seven ...
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tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 11/1/2008 — McCain Playing Defense In Home Stretch -- Including Arizona
John McCain is spending the final days of the election by almost entirely playing defense in states won by George W. Bush in 2004. And perhaps most ominously for him, his final Election Eve ...
Election Central Morning Roundup
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 10/15/2008 — Tonight: The Final Debate
Barack Obama and John McCain will meet tonight for their final debate, held at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York. The debate begins at 9 p.m. ET, and will be moderated by Bob Schieffer. Both candidates are under a ...
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tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 10/23/2008 — Polls: Obama Ahead In Florida, Ohio And Pennsylvania
A new round of Quinnipiac polls gives Barack Obama the lead in the three largest swing states. Obama is ahead 49%-44%, 52%-38% in Ohio, and 53%-40% in Pennsylvania. The Ohio result seems like an ...
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tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 10/16/2008 — New Obama Ad: McCain May Not Be Bush, But He Sure Votes With Him
The Obama campaign already has this new TV ad set to air on national cable, taking on John McCain for his declaration at the debate last night that he's not President Bush:
"You ...
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tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 10/24/2008 — McCain Ad: An Obama Crisis "Doesn't Have To Happen"
The new McCain ad, which will air in key states, uses Joe Biden's gaffe about how Barack Obama will be tested in an international crisis, so as to warn voters that Obama is too much of a risk -- ...
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tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 10/30/2008 — Polls: Obama Ahead In The Battlegrounds -- And Running Close In Arizona
The new CNN state polls : Obama is up 55%-43% in Pennsylvania; up 52%-46% in North Carolina; up 52%-45% in Nevada; up 51%-47% in Ohio; and is trailing McCain 53%-46% in McCain's ...
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tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 11/2/2008 — Poll: Tight Race In Virginia
A new Mason-Dixon poll of Virginia gives Barack Obama a lead of 47% to John McCain's 44%, with a ±4% margin of error, not significantly changed from a 47%-45% Obama lead a week ago. The poll also shows that white voters ...
McCain vs. Obama: Before and after —
First Read 10/21/2008
A New York Times/CBS poll conducted among the same respondents before the first debate -- and then after the last one -- shows that Obama’s favorability rating increased while McCain’s declined. “As voters have gotten to know Senator Barack ...
McCain: Breaking away —
First Read 10/21/2008
The Washington Post notes how McCain is amping up his anti-Bush rhetoric. "At virtually every campaign stop, McCain is reprising a line he used last Wednesday in his final debate with Sen. Barack Obama: ‘I am not George Bush.’ And in a television ad ...
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