tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com — Here's some good polling news for Obama. It appears voters are accurately perceiving John McCain as far and away the more negative campaigner in the race ... By a nearly six-to-one margin, voters say Republican presidential candidate John McCain is running a negative campaign against his Democratic rival, Barack Obama, according to the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. Nearly three in ...
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The Case for Hillary
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right —
... In fact, I'd go one step further than my reader. I think that if Obama picks Clinton, the Republicans are likely to overplay their hand. One thing that Obama has not really been able to do is to generate some organic level of backlash when he is attacked. This is separate and distinct from the notion of "fighting back"; it is voters stepping in and refereeing the match themselves. Voters recognize that McCain has gone negative but they aren't really punishing him for it -- his favorables haven't moved at all. Why not? I think it has to do with the nature of ...
Pick Her
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... If Obama picks Clinton, the Republicans are likely to overplay
their hand. One thing that Obama has not really been able to do is to
generate some organic level of backlash when he is attacked. This is
separate and distinct from the notion of "fighting back"; it is voters
stepping in and refereeing the match themselves. Voters recognize that McCain has gone negative
but they aren't really punishing him for it -- his favorables haven't
moved at all. Why not? ...
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Obama camp links McCain to Abramoff scandal —
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