blogs.abcnews.com - 10/31/2008
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ABC News' Bret Hovell reports: With just over five days to go before the country votes, John McCain attempted to turn the storyline of the campaign to national security in a speech this afternoon in Tampa, Fla. It was the...
fivethirtyeight.com - 10/31/2008
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fivethirtyeight.com —
As the only reporter during this election who
has actually visited upwards of 50 of John McCain's...
field offices around the country (13 battleground states and counting), this piece by Matthew Mosk at the Washington Post comes as no surprise: The ...
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The Big Empty
marcambinder.theatlantic.com - 11/1/2008
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The last thing the McCain campaign needs on
election day is demoralized Republicans. Hence this memo, which...
recapitulates what Davis and co. said on a conference call with reporters this morning. From: Rick Davis, McCain-Palin Campaign ...
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A McCain Campaign Memo
washingtonmonthly.com - 10/31/2008
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MAKING THE CASE.... Lawrence Eagleburger, deputy secretary of
State under Bush I, has been a McCain campaign...
advisor and occasional surrogate for nearly a year. As it happens, once in a while, Eagleburger strays from the script -- and that's...
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Making the case
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From The Neocon Stylings of John Sydney McCain, Super Genius…
Firedoglake —
... Yesterday's word of the day from Team McCain was "vigilance." Here's a few for McCain: unprincipled, hypocrite, dangerous, and wrong. No. Really...just no. ...
Trick Or Treat: Why Were Baker And Eagleburger MIA For McCain Foreign Policy Event?
Firedoglake —
... This has been nagging at me: why did McCain have a staged foreign policy event and not have Baker and Eagleburger with him?
McCain tends to be neoconnish, especially his advisors, so why not balance it with folks from the "realist" camp? Also, why were Graham and Lieberman there? Fellow Baghdad bargain hunters, I suppose. And isn't that FL Gov. Charlie Crist's perma-tan right behind McCain? The "Hey, look, I got yer governor in a photo-op! Vote for me!" contingent is stoked.
Maybe because it was a tiny, ...
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... bonuses of millions of dollars . . . no one bailed the homeowners out, they blame them for the bad loans they were given. People trusted these banks, they didn't know any better, they were not in the banking business . . . Now, that they know better and as they are homeless, Bush wants to take their votes away. Taking away votes is not protecting US deomcracy, regardless of what these criminals say. Votes are the heartbeats of a real democracy. When the votes go, democracy dies. Political Radar: McCain: Obama Doesn't Have 'What it Takes' to Protect Nation McCain's "bomb, ...
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talkingpointsmemo.com 10/25/2008 — The McCain camp is denying that it was a campaign spokesperson who told local TV reporters in Pittsburgh that the "B" supposedly scrawled on the face of a young McCain campaign worker was a reference to "Barack" Obama, angrily carved into her face ...
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Obama is swamping McCain in student election —
msnbc.com: Politics 10/31/2008
Barack Obama is swamping John McCain in a national mock election among students from kindergarten through college age. The students have been successful in calling the winners in at least the past three elections: Bill Clinton in 1996, and George Bush ...