Polling Right-Of-Center Bloggers On McCain's VP Pick - Right Wing News (Conservative News and Views)
rightwingnews.com 8/27/2008 — Right Wing News emailed more than 240 right-of-center bloggers and asked them to answer 3 questions. The following 67 blogs responded, Absinthe & Cookies , The Absurd Report , The Anchoress , Atlas Shrugs , The Baseball Crank , Basil's Blog , Betsy's ...

Talking Points Memo | New McCain Ad Badly Distorts Obama's Words About Iran
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 8/27/2008 — The new McCain ad released this morning attacking Obama on Iran rips Obama's words out of context so egregiously that it amounts to a distortion at best and an outright smear at worst. The ad's narrator says: "Obama says Iran is a 'tiny' country. ...

Avoiding a Lieberman Disaster by Robert D. Novak on Creators.com - A Syndicate Of Talent
creators.com 8/27/2008 — Can McCain Back in Again? WASHINGTON In the contest for president, Barack Obama is a magnetic candidate supported by a disciplined, well-organized campaign. John McCain seems wooden, with a campaign that appears to be in shambles. Yet Obama's lead in ...

Plouffe Sanguine About Obama's Prospects
marcambinder.theatlantic.com 8/27/2008 — Barack McCain's margin among independent swing-voting women and sporadically voting Democrats are two of the main metrics his campaign are closely monitoring, Obama's election manager, David Plouffe, said today. Plouffe, speaking to reporters, editors ...

Fire in the Night by John M. Murtagh, City Journal 30 April 2008
city-journal.org 8/27/2008 — During the April 16 debate between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, moderator George Stephanopoulos brought up “a gentleman named William Ayers,” who “was part of the Weather Underground in the 1970s. They bombed the Pentagon, the Capitol, and other ...

Reviews of Day 2: Praise for HRC's speech — First Read 8/27/2008
Washington Post’s Balz writes, "Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton roused the Democratic National Convention here Tuesday night with sharp criticism of Sen. John McCain and a full-throated endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama ... urging Democrats to put the ...

Dem Convo, Day 3: Another McCain ad — First Read 8/27/2008
Pegged to the foreign policy night of Obama’s convention, the McCain camp says it’s up with a new TV ad -- to air in key states (read: not it’s regular battleground buy) -- that hits Obama on the issue of Iran. It goes, “Iran. Radical Islamic ...

McCain: So who exactly is the celebrity? — First Read 8/27/2008
The McCain campaign may contend that Obama is the "biggest celebrity" in the presidential race, NBC/NJ’s Adam Aigner-Treworgy notes, but its candidate has spent most of this week hobnobbing with as many GOP celebrities as his campaign can find. On ...

Obama: The counterattack — First Read 8/27/2008
Senator Barack Obama's campaign has been aggressively fighting back against an independent advocacy group's TV ad linking the Democratic nominee with Ayers… The advocacy group's main benefactor is a Texas billionaire who has given money to John McCain ...

Starring Role: McCain Camp Focuses on Clinton — WSJ.com: Washington Wire 8/27/2008
Elizabeth Holmes reports from Sedona, Ariz., on the presidential race. Hillary Clinton has taken a starring role in the John McCain campaign in recent days, using her as the centerpiece of two advertisements aimed at wooing her supporters ...