townhall.com - 10/28/2008
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... What I'm hearing on the ground is consistent with the rumors; former Romney staffers are mocking Palin. The real question is whether, or not, this is organic -- or whether this is, in fact, an orchestrated...
thinkprogress.org - 11/3/2008
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thinkprogress.org —
This morning on NBC’s Today Show, host Meredith
Vieira asked McCain campaign surrogate Mitt Romney about a...
new University of Wisconsin analysis, which found that more of McCain’s ads have been negative than Obama’s in the past week. ...
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Romney Can’t Bring Himself To Say That McCain Has ...
spectator.org - 10/27/2008
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spectator.org —
ERIC THE READY House Republican Deputy Whip, Eric
Cantor has spent the last week making calls to...
fellow Republican House members he believes will survive next week's election, according to several members who received the call. "He is already ...
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Post-Defeat Planners
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com - 10/28/2008
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In another sign that more and more GOPers
are presuming an Obama victory, top McCain surrogate Mitt...
Romney confesses as much in a fundraising email he blasted out on behalf of GOP Senator Mitch McConnell. In his email , Romney warns against ...
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Top McCain Surrogate Romney: Obama Win Likely
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On the Romneybot Attacks Against Sarah Palin
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
When I was in St. Paul for the Republican Convention, more than
a dozen people told me acolytes of Mitt Romney were feeding all the
stories to the media portraying Palin in a negative light.
In fact, I heard that one of the biggest pushers of anti-Palin
stories, including encouraging reporters to pursue the
"Trooper-gate" story was Romney spokesman Kevin Madden.
I did not blog on it at the time because I perceived it to be
people trying to finish off Romney. It likewise seemed clear to me
that if this was going on, it was people loyal to Romney who were
still hoping for his come back and not Romney himself.
These days it is ...
MORNING READ
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MORNING READ Less than a week before the election, conservative bloggers are going on the offensive on behalf of John McCain's presidential campaign. They're demanding that the Los Angeles Times release a tape that allegedly shows Barack Obama at a party with Palestinians. They're also criticizing an aide to a former McCain rival who has undermined McCain's running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. Liberal bloggers defend Obama from the latest attack by Joe the Plumber, and they get help from an unlikely source. The Times reportedly has a tape showing Obama at a 2003 dinner for Palestinian activist Rashid Khalidi, but it won't release it even though one ...
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corner.nationalreview.com 10/29/2008 — I feel like the primary campaign isn't over as fingers point to Mitt Romney supposedly trying to take down Sarah Palin. The whole thing is a distraction Dems must be grateful for.
If the former Massachusetts governor is trying to do Palin in for the ...
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Palin calls for Stevens to resign —
CNN Political Ticker 10/28/2008
(CNN) – Sarah Palin said Tuesday Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens should resign his Senate seat, in a statement released hours after John McCain made a similar declaration.
The comments come a day after Palin would not say what she thought the best ...