firstread.msnbc.msn.com - 8/7/2008
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From NBC/NJ’s Adam Aigner-Treworgy LIMA, Ohio -- After an uncharacteristic week free of any town-hall events, McCain held a public question-and-answer session here this afternoon and returned to the stump speech he debuted last week. Most of the speech is spent going through specific key issues in this election and outlining the differences between McCain and his opponent.
Today, the issue that attracted the most applause was energy and offshore drilling, a subject on which McCain has been ...
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Is Obama Bush-Bama? Just More of the Same?
Swampland —
... all wrong. It was Obama, after all, who sided with George W. Bush and Dick Cheney on the 2005 Energy Bill. McCain voted against the bill. Here's McCain today in Ohio: ...
Big Oil Barack
Weekly Standard Blog —
... dime of that money, he wants to give them more. So make no mistake – the oil companies have placed their bet on Senator McCain."
But based on data downloaded electronically from the Federal Election Commission on July 29, 2008, reports CRP: "Through June, Exxon employees have given Obama $42,100 to McCain's $35,166. Chevron favors Obama $35,157 to $28,500, and Obama edges out McCain with BP $16,046 vs. $11,500."
At a campaign stop in Ohio today, McCain rapped Obama for voting for President Bush's energy bill:
"I ...
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