marcambinder.theatlantic.com - 9/1/2008
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From a just-completed press conference: Jake Tapper: Governor
Palin and her husband issued a statement today saying that their 17 year old
daughter Bristol who is unmarried is 5 months pregnant. Do you have a comment? BO: I have
heard some of the news on this and so let me be as clear as ...
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Obama's Response
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
From a press conference: I have heard some of the news on this and so let me be as clear as possible. I have said before and I will repeat again, I think people's families are off limits, and people's children are especially off limits. This shouldn't be part of our politics, it has no relevance to governor Palin's performance as a governor or her potential performance as a vice president. And so I would strongly urge people to back off these kinds of stories. You know my mother had me when she was 18. And how family deals with issues and teenage children ...
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(CNN) — Top McCain adviser Steve Schmidt said Monday that newly-minted Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin informed John McCain of her daughter's pregnancy in one of their "private conversations" last week.
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Post-Obama speech, Palin polls —
First Read 9/1/2008
From NBC's Domenico MontanaroTwo new polls of note out today… CBS/New York Times has Obama with a slight bounce, up 48%-40%. An earlier poll, showed Obama up 45%-42%. CNN/Opinion Research, however, has Obama up just one point, 49%-48%
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