washingtonmonthly.com - 10/30/2008
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WILL HAS NO USE FOR MCCAIN.... It's probably fair to say conservative columnist George Will has been thoroughly unimpressed by John McCain of late. He's blasted McCain for "behaving like a flustered rookie playing in a league too high." Will...
rasmussenreports.com - 10/29/2008
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rasmussenreports.com —
After several weeks of John McCain’s campaign attacks
on Barack Obama’s tax plan and idea of “spreading
the wealth around”, the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds voters trust McCain more than Obama on taxes, 47% to 45%. Two ...
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McCain Trusted More on Taxes and Economy
fivethirtyeight.com - 10/31/2008
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fivethirtyeight.com —
As the only reporter during this election who
has actually visited upwards of 50 of John McCain's
field offices around the country (13 battleground states and counting), this piece by Matthew Mosk at the Washington Post comes as no surprise: The ...
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The Big Empty
fivethirtyeight.com - 10/29/2008
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fivethirtyeight.com —
Earlier tonight , I suggested that there were
in fact proportionately more undecideds among white voters than
black voters, as the McCain campaign claimed today . This was based mostly on a recollection of numbers that I'd looked at several weeks ago ...
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The Undecideds
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Dire
Shakesville —
McCain loses Thatcher voter (!) Anne Applebaum, prompts George Will to go off on him, and can't even secure the endorsement of Francis Fukuyama; says Emptywheel: "That's right, the guy who literally wrote The End of History has figured out that Barack Obama is history in the making." Zoinks. Though I'm not sure anything makes McCain look more destined to lose than his own campaign preemptively scapegoating their veep nominee for a loss that has yet to happen.
And Elsewhere In The World
Eschaton —
Bad things still happen. NEW DELHI — A series of apparently synchronized explosions tore through four towns in the troubled state of Assam in northeastern India on Thursday, killing at least 67 people and leaving more than 210 wounded, according to witnesses and police. Hopefully there's someone around to tell President McCain who the villain is. Probably it's Russia.
FMB (Penultimate Edition)
Discourse.net —
... Obama, 57; McCain, 0
“Doonesbury” strip for next Wednesday declares Obama the winner
Thursday
Crooks & Liars, Neil Cavuto on John McCain: ‘On economic matters, you have no convictions’
TPM, McCain’s Disgrace
Political Animal, Of course it’s about race
George F. Will, Call Him John the Careless
Political Animal, Will has no use for McCain
TalkLeft, Conservatives Dis and Ditch McCain-Palin ...
Friday McBush/McSame Bashing (Penultimate Edition)
Discourse.net —
... Obama, 57; McCain, 0
“Doonesbury” strip for next Wednesday declares Obama the winner
Thursday
Crooks & Liars, Neil Cavuto on John McCain: ‘On economic matters, you have no convictions’
TPM, McCain’s Disgrace
Political Animal, Of course it’s about race
George F. Will, Call Him John the Careless
Political Animal, Will has no use for McCain
TalkLeft, Conservatives Dis and Ditch McCain-Palin ...
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How McCain lost me.
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McCain On Meet The Press: "I Believe I'm Going To Win"
tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2008: 10/26/2008 — Republican John McCain on Sunday dismissed the sour poll numbers that show him trailing in his White House race against Democrat Barack Obama and said his campaign is "doing fine."
Interviewed on NBC's "Meet the Press," the Arizona senator said he has pulled closer to Obama.
Watch:
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Stephanopoulos: Is There Anything McCain Can Do?
blogs.abcnews.com 10/15/2008 — ABC News' George Stephanopoulos reports: Going into tonight's third and final presidential debate Barack Obama leads John McCain 53 to 39 percent in support nationally, according to the latest CBS News/New York Times poll. Among independent voters -- ...
McCain Brings Hope to Pennsylvania
fivethirtyeight.com 10/28/2008 — There had been some pushback from McCain operatives about whether the Republican in fact intended to concede Colorado, as CNN had reported yesterday . In politics, however, money speaks louder than words, and the New York Times is now reporting that ...
Who Do You Believe?
talkingpointsmemo.com 10/25/2008 — The McCain camp is denying that it was a campaign spokesperson who told local TV reporters in Pittsburgh that the "B" supposedly scrawled on the face of a young McCain campaign worker was a reference to "Barack" Obama, angrily carved into her face ...
Final Debate, Final Analysis
commentsfromleftfield.com 10/16/2008 — Last night Senator John McCain and Senator Barack Obama shared a stage for what is most likely the last time during this presidential election season. It was the last best chance for McCain to force a game changer to save his flagging campaign, ...
McToast
americablog.com 10/16/2008 — FL – St. Petersburg Times (Editorial) "McCain's last offensive:" On the same day a new poll showed that voters' confidence in the federal government has reached an all-time low, Obama spoke with a reassuring confidence…But when the questioning turned ...
McCain vs. Obama: Your partisan divide —
First Read 10/30/2008
The New York Times’ Leibovich notes the differences between rallies for McCain-Palin and Obama. “Supporters of Senators Barack Obama and Joseph R. Biden Jr. often look like Benetton-colored billboards, decked out for their candidates in Obama-Biden ...
God, Country and McCain —
Wash Post Elections 10/31/2008
LYNCHBURG, Va. Claire Ayendi is dealing with the fading kick of two double shots of espresso. It's the eve of homecoming weekend at Liberty University, and Ayendi, the president of the college Republican club, is trying to rig up a parade float in ...