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The Obamablogs Want a Fighter
Taylor Marsh — ... This isn’t a transformative election, it’s another hardscrabble, claw out each and every vote, election. To win that kind of election, you need to fight for every vote and fight hard. - Americablog ...

"Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia."
Corrente — More hilarity from AmericaBlog: This isn’t a transformative election, it’s another hardscrabble, claw out each and every vote, election. To win that kind of election, you need to fight for every vote and fight hard. I, like, so totally missed that memo! I thought this election was all about hope and change!

Political Toughness
TalkLeft — Sorry to clutter the page this morning, but I have to share this post from Americablog. This passage especially: [I]f you thought that somehow this year was going to be different - something would change and somehow the American electorate would look completely different this year than any other year, the numbers today just don't show that. This isn't a transformative election, it's another hardscrabble, claw out each and every vote, election. To win that kind of election, you need to fight for every vote and fight hard. That's why you hear the ...

8/20: Dukakis II?
Blogometer — ... ] does show that McCain's negative attacks were far more effective than Obama's pivot to the center these past two months. The Democratic campaign in the fall is going to have to be much much tougher than the summer was. The Republicans are going to be firing all their weapons --- we haven't seen the worst of it, by far. We'd better hope the convention is a huge success and gives the campaign a nuclear blast-off." AMERICAblog 's Robert Arena : "Not all is lost folks, Obama has time and money to make a shift. But if you thought that somehow this year was going to be different ...

Remainders: No hints
Ben Smith's Blog — No hints. Aravosis is worried by the tightening polls. Obama's longtime Jewish outreach guy was also a lobbyist until earlier this month. Obama pushes a commission to weaken the superdelegates and decompress the calendar. Brian Montopoli has more detail. Toby Keith praises Obama in the course of promoting "Beer for My Horse." David Ignatius finds McCain's self-professed love of the "zinger" problematic for future diplomacy. The Obama campaign floats ...

Why Obama Can’t Do As Well As Generic Democrat
Firedoglake — ... Rob Arena over at AmericaBlog has an excellent summary of what polling is telling us about where Obama vs. McCain is, and it's nowhere were it should be. ...

So Now We Find Out If Obama Really Wants To Win... Or Not
DownWithTyranny! — ... Robert Arena, a guy who knows of what he speaks-- big time-- has a post at AmericaBlog today talking about why McCain has been able to keep Obama from breaking out. There are a lot of bullet points. Here are a couple Obama should fix when he and Hillary are in front of a delirious audience in Denver next week: ...