blogs.abcnews.com - 10/20/2008
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Crunching numbers of the candidates' tax plans -- as they explain them on the stump -- the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center offers THIS GENERAL ANALYSIS. Tax quintiles are from HERE. There are equal numbers of Americans in every quintile. Obviously...
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jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com - 10/20/2008
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There was an astonishing quotation in a recent
New York Times story about John McCain from Robert...
Timberg, a biographer and admirer of McCain's. Timberg told the Times reporter David Kirkpatrick that, "Political campaigns have a way of ...
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Mark Salter on the Press and John McCain
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The Liberal Media’s Tax Bias: All About Spreading the Wealth, Not Expanding the Pie
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... will give $1,264.
But here's where the starkest differences come in. If you're in the top one percent, making between $602,000, to $2.8 million, McCain gives you a $109,214 tax cut on average. Obama would raise your taxes on average by $121,689. Those figures are for 2009 and, of course, they're just generalities. We have more detailed information at ABCNews.com.
As he promised viewers, Tapper offered a bit of further explanation at his ABC News blog, “Political Punch.”
Now, some of the key findings of the Heritage Foundation analysis of the ...
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balloon-juice.com 10/21/2008 — For John McCain :
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Stephanopoulos: Is There Anything McCain Can Do?
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Final Debate, Final Analysis
commentsfromleftfield.com 10/16/2008 — Last night Senator John McCain and Senator Barack Obama shared a stage for what is most likely the last time during this presidential election season. It was the last best chance for McCain to force a game changer to save his flagging campaign, ...
McCain On Meet The Press: "I Believe I'm Going To Win"
tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2008: 10/26/2008 — Republican John McCain on Sunday dismissed the sour poll numbers that show him trailing in his White House race against Democrat Barack Obama and said his campaign is "doing fine."
Interviewed on NBC's "Meet the Press," the Arizona senator said he has pulled closer to Obama.
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How McCain lost me.
althouse.blogspot.com 11/9/2008 — As promised , I'm mining my archive -- beginning in late August -- to try to understand how I turned against John McCain. August 25: "Nicely done. I'm glad to see the return of the light touch," I say about an Obama ad that uses the song "What a ...
Stephanopoulos Goes 4 for 4 in Declaring Democrat the Winner
newsbusters.org 10/16/2008 — Though he decided “this was John McCain's best debate,” Democratic operative-turned ABC News journalist George Stephanopoulos made it a “clean sweep for Barack Obama” as he declared on Nightline after Wednesday's third and final presidential debate: ...
York: I Am Not President Bush.
article.nationalreview.com 10/16/2008 — Who won? There seems little doubt that McCain scored many more points than Obama.
Going to the well a little too often
washingtonmonthly.com 10/23/2008 — GOING TO THE WELL A LITTLE TOO OFTEN.... It was the basis of a debate message. And a stump speech. And an ad campaign. And now it's a tour. Central Florida is getting ready for another visit from Republican presidential...
Biden's warnings —
First Read 10/20/2008
From NBC/NJ's Mike Memoli Over the course of five fundraisers on the West Coast this weekend, Biden offered some pretty honest assessments of the state of the race, even by his standards.
He warned that the polls will tighten. He said that ...
McCain camp ‘rethinking’ Wright issue —
CNN Political Ticker 10/20/2008
The McCain campaign may be 'rethinking' it's decision not to discuss Rev. Wright.
(CNN) — John McCain’s campaign manager Rick Davis suggested in an interview that the campaign may be "rethinking" its decision not to use Barack ...
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