blogs.abcnews.com - 10/21/2008
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They see the Keystone State as essential on their path to victory. So Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., his wife Cindy, and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin are spending considerable time in the state. "We love Pennsylvania!" McCain campaign manager Rick Davis...
fivethirtyeight.com - 10/18/2008
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“I walked five miles to get out of
Pittsburgh, and two rides, an apple truck and a...
big trailer truck, took me to Harrisburg in the soft Indian-summer rainy night. I cut right along. I wanted to get home…. That night in Harrisburg I had to sleep in ...
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On the Road: Western Pennsylvania
thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com - 10/25/2008
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Remainders: President Google
Ben Smith's Blog —
Obama pulling away in swing counties, according to a new InsiderAdvantage/Politico poll.
Page Six admits it screwed up an item about Michelle — they even got the hotel she was staying at wrong.
Tapper wonders why McCain still tries for Pennsylvania.
Obama could run Google.
Their CEO's endorsement comes as the DOJ prepares a big move against their agreement with Yahoo. Nothing to see here.
Palin's college classmates don't really remember anything about her.
Nonpartisan, ...
Quote of the Day
The Stump —
"I would remind everybody that the night before the Pennsylvania
primary, Barack Obama had his biggest crowd he'd ever had there,
thirty-two thousand people, and got trounced by ten points when
everybody including all of you on the phone thought he was going to
sweep the state by a margin of clear victory." --Obama campaign manager Rick Davis, on a Monday conference call. The problem, as Tapper notes, is almost no poll or pundit ever predicted an Obama win in PA. --Michael Crowley
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