newshoggers.com - 10/29/2008
—
By Cernig
Both John McCain and his senior foreign policy adviser Randy Scheunemann are long-time friends of Georgian president Mikhail Saakashvili . McCain's decade-long friendship with the Georgian leader is among the closest McCain has with any foreign leader and began in 1995, when ...
rasmussenreports.com - 10/29/2008
—
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
article.nationalreview.com - 10/28/2008
fivethirtyeight.com - 10/29/2008
—
fivethirtyeight.com —
Stop me if you've heard this one before.
Although the national trackers look slightly stronger for John
McCain than they did a couple days ago, Barack Obama once again had an exceptionally good day in the state-level numbers. To review the national ...
(more)
Today's Polls, 10/28
Comments
Blog Reactions
McCain’s Guilt By Association
Comments from Left Field —
... But it would seem that Saakashvili is anything but a kindly democratic ruler. In fact he may be guilty of war crimes including ordering the murder of hundreds of civilians. ...
Assorted stuff
The Sideshow —
... McCain's Friend The War Criminal: "Now though, there's an entirely different category of problem for McCain's judgement - Saakashvilli has been accused by a BBC investigative reporting team of ordering war crimes and atrocities during Georgia's surprise attack on its breakaway province of South Ossetia, causing the UK government to re-evaluate its support for Saakashvili himself, if not for Georgia." ...
Related Content
Was Georgia a Neo-Con Conspiracy? A Lesson for Obama
tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com 11/10/2008 — New revelations about Georgia's August war with Russia should send a warning to president-elect Barack Obama about how a commander-in-chief can be manipulated into war.
It now appears that the same neo-conservatives who manipulated the US into the ...
Is Georgia in Play?
qando.net 10/27/2008 — A nd this time, I don’t mean the Republic of Georgia. The Obama campaign certainly seems to think so (and polls show the race here tightening considerably). David Knowles reports: Early voting is proving a huge asset to Obama. It remains to be ...
Georgia
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com 11/4/2008 — Sean Quinn : If there is one shocker on election night in the presidential race, cast your eyes to Georgia. 1,994,990 people voted early in Georgia. 3,301,875 total voted in Georgia's presidential race in 2004.
Let that sink in. If I were to ...
On the Road: Atlanta, Georgia
fivethirtyeight.com 11/4/2008 — "I got dog-tired beyond Macon and woke up Dean to resume. We got out of the car for air and suddenly both of us were stoned with joy to realize that in the darkness all around us was fragrant green grass and the smell of fresh manure and warm waters. ...
Could Georgia Flip to the Democrats?
politicalwire.com 10/23/2008 — According to a new Democracy Corps poll in Georgia, Sen. John McCain leads Sen. Barack Obama by just two points, 46% to 44%. In the U.S. Senate race, Sen. Saxby Chambliss holds a four point edge over challenger Jim Martin (D), 48% to 44%. "The ...
Bank Failure #23: First Georgia Community Bank, Jackson, Georgia
calculatedrisk.blogspot.com 12/5/2008 — From the FDIC: United Bank Acquires All the Deposits of First Georgia Community Bank, Jackson, Georgia First Georgia Community Bank, Jackson, Georgia, was closed today by the Georgia Department of Banking and Finance, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) was named receiver. To ...
Lewis Says Georgia’s Voter ID Checks are Harassment
reddingnewsreview.com 10/13/2008 — Oct. 13, 2008, 4:40 a.m. - Voting rights groups last week filed a suit against the Georgia Secretary of State charging that the voting rights of a Cherokee County citizen had been violated. This suit came one day after concerns were lodged by the U.S. ...
Historical Fiction
weeklystandard.com 2/24/2009 — Joe Klein apparently understands the Russians better than they understand themselves, and certainly better than anyone else in the press corps. In his latest dispatch for Time , the self-styled bane of neoconservatives untangles the latest Jewish ...
McCain 'going into battle' in Georgia
swamppolitics.com 12/1/2008 — by Mark Silva
"Going into battle one more time,'' Sen. John McCain calls it.
That's his way of framing his relatively remote-control work for the reelection of Sen. Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, the Republican forced into a runoff election, this ...
New president unlikely to attend financial summit —
Reuters: Politics 10/29/2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration said on Wednesday it does not expect the winner of the November 4 U.S. presidential election, whether Democrat Barack Obama or Republican John McCain, to attend the summit on the financial crisis on ...
Palin keeps up the hits —
First Read 10/29/2008
From NBC/NJ's Matthew Berger BOWLING GREEN, Ohio -- At an event where Palin was joined by Joe the Plumber, the Republican vice-presidential candidate took up her running mate's attacks against Obama and the media Wednesday. She suggested, as ...
Follow BeltwayBlips on Twitter
