prospect.org - 10/16/2008
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This is a year that favors health care plans and regulatory schemes and unemployment benefits. It is not a year that favors John McCain.
huffingtonpost.com - 10/16/2008
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huffingtonpost.com —
Just when you didn't think things could get
worse for John McCain - they go in the...
toilet. Literally. So, you remember Joe the Plumber, who John McCain kept relentlessly bringing up. And up. The apparently undecided plumber who had complained ...
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Robert J. Elisberg: John McCain and the "Joe the ...
nypost.com - 10/16/2008
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nypost.com —
Posted: 4:42 am October 16, 2008 The short
term impact of the third debate will be to...
help Barack Obama . But the long term implications may give John McCain a needed boost. Obama looked good, but McCain opened the tax-and-spend issue in a way that ...
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MAC'S SHOT AT A LATE-GAME WIN - New York Post
michellemalkin.com - 10/16/2008
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An Angry Old Man
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Ezra Klein tackles McCain's anger problem: John McCain has an anger problem. But not the one many political observers presumed he'd have. He has not lost his temper at a questioner, blown up at a reporter, or exploded during a debate. Rather than a swift detonation, he has settled into a slow burn. He seethes. His debate performances have been shot through with contempt and resentment. The first meeting saw McCain unable to meet Barack Obama's eye, or begin a sentence without first attaching, "what Senator Obama doesn't understand." The second saw ...
Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
Daily Kos —
... President Bush; if you wanted to run against President Bush, you should have run four years ago" — but that it came far too late in the campaign to blunt Obama’s efforts to conjoin McCain and Bush at the pelvis. But the more powerful answer is this: Presidential debates are not only — or even mainly — about substance. They’re about tone and affect and body language, and on all these counts, McCain was once again fairly awful. Ezra Klein: This is a year that favors health care plans and regulatory ...
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thewashingtonnote.com 10/24/2008 —
More and more conservatives -- real conservatives -- are abandoning John McCain. They respect his service to the nation. They revere him for his patriotism, his POW past, his willingness to break with party leaders to do what the country really ...
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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 ...
McCain's robocall problem
washingtonmonthly.com 10/24/2008 — MCCAIN'S ROBOCALL PROBLEM.... It probably struck John McCain as a good idea. He'd hire the same Republican hatchet men who smeared him eight years ago, and hire the same Republican firm who viciously attacked him, and give them lots of...
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 ...
McToast
americablog.com 10/16/2008 — FL – St. Petersburg Times (Editorial) "McCain's last offensive:" On the same day a new poll showed that voters' confidence in the federal government has reached an all-time low, Obama spoke with a reassuring confidence…But when the questioning turned ...
Final Debate, Final Analysis
commentsfromleftfield.com 10/16/2008 — Last night Senator John McCain and Senator Barack Obama shared a stage for what is most likely the last time during this presidential election season. It was the last best chance for McCain to force a game changer to save his flagging campaign, ...
Stephanopoulos: Is There Anything McCain Can Do?
blogs.abcnews.com 10/15/2008 — ABC News' George Stephanopoulos reports: Going into tonight's third and final presidential debate Barack Obama leads John McCain 53 to 39 percent in support nationally, according to the latest CBS News/New York Times poll. Among independent voters -- ...
Obama: McCain not looking out for you —
First Read 10/16/2008
From NBC/NJ's Athena Jones LONDONDERRY, NH -- Obama had a today message for the middle class, especially plumbers: John McCain is not looking out for you.
Against a backdrop here of bright orange trees and a giant American flag, the ...
Lieberman: 'We turned the corner' —
First Read 10/16/2008
From NBC/NJ’s Adam Aigner-Treworgy DOWINGTON, Pa. -- At a rally this afternoon, Joe Lieberman not only declared McCain the winner of last night's debate, but he also said that the victory would change the course of his friend's campaign.
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