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rasmussenreports.com - 10/29/2008

McCain Trusted More on Taxes and Economy

— rasmussenreports.com — After several weeks of John McCain’s campaign attacks on Barack Obama’s tax plan and idea of “spreading... the wealth around”, the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds voters trust McCain more than Obama on taxes, 47% to 45%. Two ... (more) McCain Trusted More on Taxes and Economy

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fivethirtyeight.com - 10/31/2008

The Big Empty

— 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 ... (more) The Big Empty

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tnr.com - 11/2/2008

McCain First, Second, And Always

— tnr.com — One day in early March 1986, John McCain, an Arizona congressman, sat down to write a letter.... McCain had heard that a long-time friend and donor, Charles Keating, was upset for being listed as a member of McCain's campaign finance committee when a ... (more) McCain First, Second, And Always

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Khalidi And The PLO
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — ... Josh Marshall is disgusted by how McCain has deployed the faint Obama connection. I have received countless emails from many students of Khalidi's who find the demonization of him as absurd as it is abhorrent. Somewhere in all this is the truth. But the complexitis of this are not best explored in the heat of a campaign's final days. ...

"Beyond dirty campaigning... to something truly dishonorable."
Althouse — Laying great emphasis on the treatment of Rashid Khalidi, John Judis condemns the McCain campaign: (Via Josh Marshall.) ADDED: More on Khalidi here: Mr. Khalidi, the Edward Said professor of Arab studies at Columbia, was born in Manhattan in 1948.... He taught at universities in Lebanon until the mid-’80s, and some critics accuse him of having been a spokesman for the Palestine Liberation Organization. Mr. Khalidi has denied working for the group, and says he was consulted as an expert by reporters seeking to ...

Building up the Iron Cage
Crooked Timber — ... Khalidi. But it would be nice if some good emerged from it in the form of broader familiarity with his important works. So next time you hear Hannity explain how Rashid Khalidi urinates on a Haggadah during full moons, head over to Amazon and pick up a copy of The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood. Its an important book on its own terms, and its purchase is a worthy counter-statement to this type of anti-Arab fearmongering. Background here, for those who haven’t been following; it’s worth noting that even ...

10/31: McCain The Mudslinger?
Blogometer — TPM 's Marshall: "The McCain campaign has been throwing around so much mud and smears in recent weeks that it's easy to miss just how ugly and shameful their character assassination of Rashid Khalidi is. This is an entirely respectable, highly respected scholar. To go further into making a case for him would only be to enable and indulge McCain's sordid appeal to racism. For McCain, personally, to compare Khalidi to a neo-nazi, it's just an offense McCain should never be forgiven for. It's right down in the gutter with Joe McCarthy and the worst of the worst. Khalidi is in ...

FMB (Penultimate Edition)
Discourse.net — Vote Early. Friday Political Animal Still waiting (for Palin’s medical records) TPM, You Need to Know Flashback: McCain’s Sleaze-o-rama The Buzz, Crowley: Obama will win Florida Forbes.com, Harvard Kennedy School - David M. Cutler and J. Bradford DeLong commentary: Obama Can Cure Health Care’s Ills Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Sarah Palin speaks on the First Amendment Political Animal, As nasty as she wants to be Bruce ...

Friday McBush/McSame Bashing (Penultimate Edition)
Discourse.net — Vote Early. Friday Political Animal Still waiting (for Palin’s medical records) TPM, You Need to Know Flashback: McCain’s Sleaze-o-rama The Buzz, Crowley: Obama will win Florida Forbes.com, Harvard Kennedy School - David M. Cutler and J. Bradford DeLong commentary: Obama Can Cure Health Care’s Ills Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Sarah Palin speaks on the First Amendment Political Animal, As nasty as she wants to be Bruce ...

The So-Called Khalidi Controversy
Stubborn Facts — ... , and I'm totally inclined to agree with this (excepting the racist code aspects), and call this whole story underhanded, and bogus. Khalidi may be wrong on the Israel issue, but unless I'm missing something, I've found nothing that justifies the attacks laid on him, and Obama. This is beyond the pale, if you ask me. ...

Why McCain Will Win
Jon Swift — ... because he will destroy Israel the minute he is elected President. Nobody knows how to scare Jews better than other Jews. McCain spokesman Michael Goldfarb might have looked like a manipulative fear-monger and an ass to some people when he started stammering in a recent interview and couldn’t ...