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people-press.org - 10/28/2008

Overview: McCain Support Continues Downward Spiral

— people-press.org — Barack Obama leads John McCain by a 52% to 36% margin in Pew s latest nationwide survey... of 1,325 registered voters. This is the fourth consecutive survey that has found support for the Republican candidate edging down. In contrast, since early ... (more) Overview: McCain Support Continues Downward Spiral

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Barack Obama

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article.nationalreview.com - 10/28/2008

Lowry: John McCain -- The Agony of a Gadfly

— article.nationalreview.com — Perhaps no other Republican candidate was so poorly suited to the task of running a presidential race.... (more) Lowry: John McCain -- The Agony of a Gadfly

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Rich Lowry

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azcentral.com - 10/26/2008

McCain: A leader for these times

— azcentral.com — Nowhere else in the country do voters know John McCain like Arizonans know John McCain. Voters here... have sent McCain to Washington, D.C., on their behalf five times since his first election to Congress in 1982. As much as an electorate can, we know ... (more) McCain: A leader for these times

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John McCain

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Quote Of The Day
The LLama Butchers — Quote Of The Day From Michael Barone : "The irony here is that voters motivated by anger at the decline in their wealth seem about to elect a president who has promised to embark on wealth-destroying policies." Amen, brutha. Posted by Gary at October 27, 2008 05:39 PM | ...

Voting Against Last Eight Years to Get More of the Samebut with a tax increase
GayPatriot — ... In his post on Obama’s lead in Pennsylvania, Michael Barone considers another intereseting irony of this campaign.  Barone attribues that lead to the Democrat’s strength in the Philadelphia suburbs where affluent voters are turning away from the GOP because of the “recent decline in household wealth” due to tumbling house prices.  “ ...

Voting Against “Last Eight Years” to Get More of the Same. . . but with a tax increase
GayPatriot — ... In his post on Obama’s lead in Pennsylvania, Michael Barone considers another intereseting irony of this campaign.  Barone attribues that lead to the Democrat’s strength in the Philadelphia suburbs where affluent voters are turning away from the GOP because of the “recent decline in household wealth” due to tumbling house prices.  “ ...

Could It All Come Down to Pennsylvania?
blonde sagacity — ... by "not voting for anyone" on November 4th. So basically these high IQ folks are handing the election to Barack. How many times do I have to explain to these dolts that the primaries are where you make your statements and you vote your ideals in the general regardless of whether you LIKE the candidate...no one's asking you to invite him to date him. There are two SCOTUS appointments to think of. There are taxes to keep in check and a war on islamofacists to think of... Good OpEd about the fight in PA -H/T: kali

McCain's Pennsylvania Problem
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Michael Barone diagnoses the suburban housing bust: McCain is running even with or better than Bush in most of Pennsylvania but is running far behind in metro Philly. My sense is that the McCain campaign just can't believe this is true. Metro Philly, after all, in 1988 split evenly between George H. W. Bush and Michael Dukakis; the four suburban counties' Republican margins matched the Democratic margins in the city of Philadelphia (conveniently coterminous with Philadelphia County). As I've noted over the years, affluent suburban territory like the Philly ...

Road to 270: Pennsylvania
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right — ... THE REPUBLICAN WHITE WHALE, Pennsylvania will give its 21 electoral votes to Barack Obama. Despite relentlessly wider public polling margins, Republicans argue that they are in a position to lose the state by 6 points, which is a 140% bigger margin than when John Kerry won the state in 2004. Even Michael Barone knows John McCain won't win the state, bitterly complaining that ...