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talkingpointsmemo.com - 11/11/2008
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talkingpointsmemo.com —
John Hinderacker , arguably the most influential conservative
blogger in the country ... Obama thinks he is...
a good talker, but he is often undisciplined when he speaks. He needs to understand that as President, his words will be scrutinized and ...
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The Importance of Being Earnest
realclearpolitics.blogs.time.com - 11/2/2008
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realclearpolitics.blogs.time.com —
McCain has spent a good portion of this
final weekend campaigning in Pennsylvania, even though he still...
trails by 7-points in the latest RCP Avg. However, he trailed by about 14-points in early...
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The Importance of Pennsylvania
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Will Obama Win the Character War?
Crooks and Liars —
... and true strategy from 2000 and 2004 when he announced "this election is not about issues" but instead about "a composite view of what people take away from these candidates." On Tuesday night, Americans will learn not only whether Barack Obama won the election, but whether voters literally thought he was a better man. Heading into Election Day, Senator Obama looks like to outperform his recent Democratic predecessors across a range of policy and demographic measures. An October Rasmussen survey showed that Americans trust Democrats more than Republicans across each of the 10 ...
Growth through dismemberment doesn’t work
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... comes as no surprise after eight years of Republican control of the White House. Unless Whitman shows that Bush’s position on embryonic stem-cell research was the leading issue on voters’ minds, her extrapolation that the shift in moderates came from a sudden allergy to social conservatism is the worst kind of statistical manipulation. It’s correlation without causation. What were the issues foremost on the minds of voters? The failing economy, ethics, and national security. In Rasmussen’s polling on issues, abortion didn’t even make the top five: Only the last two have ...
Rasmussen and the quietly rusting Democratic advantage.
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
Examining Rasmussen’s trust-on-issues numbers from month to month is interesting enough, but I was interested in the long term trends. So I put together this chart comparing this month’s numbers with those of last October’s*: ...
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