washingtonmonthly.com - 10/16/2008
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IT DEPENDS ON WHAT YOU MEAN BY 'FOCUSED'.... The LA Times piece on last night's debate said John McCain seemed "far more ... focused" than in previous forums. I didn't quite see it that way. In fact, one of the...
time-blog.com - 10/16/2008
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From TIME's Amy Sullivan: In politics it is
generally not considered a good sign when voters are...
laughing at you, not with you. And by the end of the third and last presidential debate, the undecided voters who had gathered in Denver for Democratic ...
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Undecideds Laughing At, Not With, McCain
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swamppolitics.com - 10/14/2008
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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
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When "eloquence" is an epithet --
The Reaction —
... . Once again, it became very clear that, to the very serious problems facing the people of the U.S., McCain's lack of answers, his garbled and inarticulate responses, are in stark contrast to Obama's wide-ranging and specific ideas. Eventually McCain took up the theme of Obama's "eloquence," using it over and over as a kind of ...
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Final Debate Reax
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com 10/16/2008 — Ambinder :
Tonight, we saw a McXplosion. Every
single attack that Sen. McCain has ever wanted to make, he took the
opportunity tonight to make. Around 30 minutes in, McCain seemed to
surrender the debate to his frustrations, making it seem as if he ...
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 ...
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balloon-juice.com 10/21/2008 — For John McCain :
As voters have gotten to know Senator Barack Obama, they have warmed up to him, with more than half, 53 percent, now saying they have a favorable impression of him and 33 percent saying they have an unfavorable view. But as ...
Who's more negative?
time-blog.com 10/16/2008 — It's a draw. This from the University of Wisconsin Advertising Project:
Prof. Ken Goldstein, director of the Wisconsin Advertising Project, issued the following statement:
“Analysis from the Wisconsin Advertising Project of Sen. John ...
Obama has 5-point lead on McCain —
Reuters: Politics 10/16/2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama has a 5-point lead over Republican John McCain in the U.S. presidential race, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/ZOGBY poll released on Thursday.
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