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courant.com - 11/5/2008

Shays Concedes -

— courant.com — "Tonight, we lost an election, but we didn't lose our souls," his wife, Betsi, told the crowd at the Norwalk Inn. Shays, a 21-year incumbent, held off tough challenges in 2006 and 2005, but this year the Obama wave appeared to be taking a toll. With ... (more) Shays Concedes -

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Barack Obama

General David Petraeus

Jim Himes

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talkingpointsmemo.com - 10/25/2008

Who Do You Believe?

— talkingpointsmemo.com — The McCain camp is denying that it was a campaign spokesperson who told local TV reporters in Pittsburgh that the "B" supposedly scrawled on the face of a young McCain campaign worker was a reference to "Barack" Obama, angrily carved into her face ... (more) Who Do You Believe?

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Barack Obama

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washingtonmonthly.com - 10/30/2008

Will has no use for McCain

— washingtonmonthly.com — WILL HAS NO USE FOR MCCAIN.... It's probably fair to say conservative columnist George Will has been thoroughly unimpressed by John McCain of late. He's blasted McCain for "behaving like a flustered rookie playing in a league too high." Will... (more) Will has no use for McCain

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Sarah Palin

George Will

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Shays: McCain ‘has lost his brand as a maverick.’
Think Progress — ... In an interview with the Yale Daily News on Sunday, Rep. Chris Shays (R-CT) declared that Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) “has lost his brand as a maverick” and “did not live up to his pledge to fight a clean campaign.” Shays, who is the Connecticut co-chair of McCain’s campaign, “laid much of the blame on the far right” of the conservative movement, claiming that they have “hijacked” the Republican party. The AP points out that Shays joins ...

Shays: McCain Can't Win
News — ... Connecticut Republican Rep. Chris Shays, locked in his own difficult reelection battle, said this past weekend that John McCain likely will not win the presidency. “I just don’t see how [McCain] can win,” Shays told the Yale Daily News . “He has lost his brand as a maverick; he did not live up to his pledge to fight a clean campaign.” Shays, the co-chair of McCain's campaign in Connecticut–a state the Arizona Republican is not expected to carry on Tuesday–is locked in a difficult reelection race against Democratic businessman Jim Himes. Shays has been careful to distance ...