tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com - 11/13/2008
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McCain To Campaign In Georgia Senate Race
The former GOP presidential nominee is set to campaign for incumbent GOP Senator Saxby Chambliss in Georgia today. McCain's planned trip raises anew questions about why the GOP appears to be outworking Dems in this race: While a host of high profile ...
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tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 12/1/2008 — Obama Rolling Out National Security Team
Barack Obama and Joe Biden will be holding a 10:40 a.m. ET press conference today in Chicago, where Obama will be rolling out his foreign-policy team: Hillary Clinton as Sec. of State, current Sec. of Defense ...
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tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 10/14/2008 — Polls: Obama Way Ahead In Four Battleground States
A new set of polls from Quinnipiac gives Barack Obama very strong leads in four key swing states: He's up 52%-43% in Colorado, 54%-38% in Michigan, 51%-40% in Minnesota, and 54%-37% in Wisconsin. ...
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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 12/5/2008 — Obama Raised Nearly $750 Million, With Over $100 Million In Home Stretch
Barack Obama's fundraising for the 2008 campaign has now come to a record-breaking $750 million , a demonstration of just how successful his fundraising model of seeking small ...
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tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 11/24/2008 — Obama Announcing Economic Team Today
Barack Obama will officially roll out key members of his economic team today, at a 12 p.m. ET press conference in Chicago. Among the expected appointments are Timothy Geithner as Secretary of the Treasury and ...
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tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 11/14/2008 — The Big Story: Hillary For Sec. of State?
The press is buzzing with reports that Barack Obama is considering Hillary Clinton for Secretary of State. The latest wrinkle: Reuters reports that Hillary travelled to Chicago yesterday, though her office ...
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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 ...
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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 11/28/2008 — Obama Briefed On Mumbai By Condoleezza Rice
President-elect Obama spoke by phone yesterday with Secretary Rice to get an update on the Mumbai situation, an Obama aide says. He also received an intelligence briefing on the attacks and is getting ...
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tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 11/19/2008 — Report: McCain To Run For Re-Election In 2010
John McCain will reportedly run for re-election to the Senate in 2010. This could end up being a big race in the coming cycle, after polling from just before the 2008 election showed he could lose ...
GOP's future: Looking in the mirror —
First Read 11/13/2008
The New York Times , covering the first day of the Republican Governors Association meeting in Miami, writes: “As the Republican Party prepares to enter the political wilderness after its losses this month, the group that many consider its future — ...
Transition: Here come the Clintonistas —
First Read 11/13/2008
Obama holds private meetings today in Chicago, while Joe and Jill Biden meet with the Cheneys in DC at the vice presidential residence in DC. “President-elect Barack Obama on Wednesday named two former Clinton White House officials, Joshua ...
Klain tapped for Biden's chief of staff —
CNN Political Ticker 11/13/2008
(CNN) – Ron Klain, former chief of staff for Vice President Al Gore, has agreed to serve in the same post under Vice President-elect Joe Biden, a Democratic source involved in the transition tells CNN.
Klain also served as general counsel of ...
Can the GOP win back Latino voters? —
CNN Political Ticker 11/13/2008
A new voter registers at a Democratic Party booth in September in Denver, Colorado.
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Si se puede.
Translation: Yes we can.
It was a common phrase used by Barack Obama and John McCain on the campaign trail this year as they ...
Republican Governors Praise Obama —
WSJ.com: Washington Wire 11/13/2008
Many of the Republican governors meeting in Miami this week have gone out of their way to praise President-elect Barack Obama and his fellow Democrats.
On Thursday, Sarah Palin told the Republican Governors Association that Sen. Obama has ...