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Washington Wire - WSJ.com : WSJ/NBC News Poll: McCain Running a Negative Campaign
Susan Davis reports on the presidential race. Poll 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 10 voters, 29%, pointed to McCain as the candidate running a negative campaign, compared to just 5% who ...
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Jonathan Martin's Blog — ... the logic of a pro-choice veep. Conservatives prepare for Biden. Redstate asks readers to pick up their phones and preemptively protest Lieberman. Thrush explains how he has trapped the Senate Dems, complete with Paul Begala comparing him to Barry Bonds. The toss-up map has McCain up 10 electoral votes. McCain is solidifying his hold in Missouri. Pollster.com warns against Zogby. Voters think his campaign is negative. The joy of the veepstakes: headlines ...

Media Presidential Polls: Tightening Race, Obama By 3
Daily Kos — The new NBC/WSJ and CBS/NY Times polls are out and there are no radical changes from yesterday's poll tightening. As previously noted, we pay special attention to media polls because of their ability to drive narrative. (For a complete view of all the polls, see pollster.com and fivethirtyeight.com.) One narrative that seems clear as a short term gain and long term pain: McCain is perceived as running a negative campaign. By a nearly six-to-one margin, voters say Republican presidential candidate John McCain is running ...

McSame-- Policies, Politics, Corruption
DownWithTyranny! — ... and ruthless as McCain's lobbyists who-- after all-- are fighting for the ultimate: their pocketbooks. Take a look at the clip-- but still remember Carol Shea-Porter, Alan Grayson and Jeff Merkley-- and all the other Blue America candidates who we hold to very high standards. ...

McCain Launching Multipronged Counterattack On Obama Response
The Moderate Voice — ... story for weeks has been how McCain who once vowed a civil campaign went negative bigtime after being stuck in the polls. And how Obama barely responded. The other part of the STORY has been how this negative campaigning has been working and how McCain’s poll numbers have risen. Other stories noted that McCain was on a roll and that his side intended to keep the strategy and momentum going. If it ain”t broke, don’t fix it.. Meanwhile, a recent poll found that a large chunk of the American public also feel McCain has been gone ...

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