boston.com - 11/1/2008
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This story was written and reported by Adrian Walker, Michael Levenson, and Sally Jacobs of the Globe staff. Barack Obama's story, spanning from his mother's roots in Kansas to his father's in Kenya and his childhood spent in Hawaii and Indonesia, has been well chronicled and a central part of ...
timesonline.co.uk - 10/29/2008
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timesonline.co.uk —
Barack Obama has lived one version of the
American Dream that has taken him to the steps...
of the White House. But a few miles from where the Democratic presidential candidate studied at Harvard, his Kenyan aunt and uncle, immigrants living in modest ...
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Found in a rundown Boston estate: Barack Obama’s ...
boston.com - 11/6/2008
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boston.com —
CAMBRIDGE -- The president of Harvard University, Lawrence
H. Summers, sparked an uproar at an academic conference...
Friday when he said that innate differences between men and women might be one reason fewer women succeed in science and math careers. ...
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Summers' remarks on women draw fire - The Boston Globe
news.bostonherald.com - 11/1/2008
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news.bostonherald.com —
arack Obama s campaign has confirmed that a
woman living in a South Boston housing project is...
indeed the senator s aunt, a little-known relationship that was only revealed this week - five days before the election. Obama spokesman Reid Cherlin ...
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Campaign confirms Obama aunt in South Boston
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Dreams From His Aunt, part 2
Power Line —
... ) and Boston Globe (here) news stories on Barack Obama's aunt Zeituni Onyango. Ms. Onyango was found living in run-down Boston public housing, though she has enough money to have contributed $260 to Obama's campaign. ...
The Anatomy of a Smear
TPMMuckraker —
... carried out.
First the Murdoch-owned Times of London reported Thursday that Obama's aunt, Zeituni Onyango, is living in a Boston public-housing complex. It's unclear how the paper learned of the woman's presence in the U.S.
From there, the story quickly got taken up by the right-wing echo chamber. Fox News (also Murdoch-owned, of course), Drudge, the Boston Herald, and various conservative blogs -- as well as some mainstream outlets -- began breathlessly hyping the story.
But the Times had ...
McCain’s November Surprise Is a Dud
Comments from Left Field —
... the Murdoch-owned Times of London reported Thursday that Obama’s aunt, Zeituni Onyango, is living in a Boston public-housing complex. It’s unclear how the paper learned of the woman’s presence in the U.S.
From there, the story quickly got taken up by the right-wing echo chamber. Fox News (also Murdoch-owned, of course), Drudge, the Boston Herald, and various conservative blogs — as well as some mainstream outlets — began breathlessly hyping the story.
But the Times had ...
The aunt and the smear: The right-wing effort to make an issue of an Obama relative
The Reaction —
... able to give money to Obama). The whole "story" has been a right-wing smear. As TPM Muckraker reported on Saturday, it was The Times, a Rupert Murdoch-owned British newspaper, that first "broke" the story. "From there, the story quickly got taken up by the right-wing echo chamber. Fox News (also Murdoch-owned, of course), Drudge, the Boston Herald, and various conservative blogs -- as well as some mainstream outlets -- began breathlessly hyping the story." But The Times only ...
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McCain vs. Obama: Tracking the race —
First Read 11/1/2008
Here’s a wrap of some of the tracking polls we’re following: Gallup has Obama up 11 points among registered voters (52%-41%), eight points in its traditional likely-voter model (51%-43%), and nine points in its expanded likely-voter model (52%-43%). ...
Battleground: An early vote advantage —
First Read 11/1/2008
The Washington Post , covering yesterday’s Obama conference call on the state of the race, notes what appears to be the Democrats’ early-voting advantage. “A surge in early voting by Democrats marks a reversal of the pattern that helped Bush win in ...
McCain Mantains Hope for Victory —
WSJ.com: Washington Wire 11/1/2008
Elizabeth Holmes reports from Perkasie, Pa. on the presidential race.
John McCain campaigns in Perkasie, Pa. (AP)
John McCain reiterated his confidence in victory Tuesday, saying at a rally here Saturday afternoon, I know were ...
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