Obama goes door-to-door to drum up votes in Ohio 2008-10-12 23:57:06
...is a central front in this year's campaign and was the state that secured Republican President George W. Bush his 2004 reelection victory. Obama will spend the next three days in Ohio, where recent polls show a statistical dead heat with him slightly ahead...
Eckhart might split GOP vote in 15th District 2008-10-12 23:54:22
...who say they've betrayed the party. \"If Steve Stivers does not adhere to the Republican Party platform, it's not Family First's fault if he loses the election,\" said Lori Viars, executive director of the group. Michael Gonidakis of Ohio Right to Life said...
Texas knocks off Oklahoma for top spot in AP poll 2008-10-12 23:51:24
...could vault right back up the polls when they play Texas in Austin on Saturday. \"Our team has just played well for six weeks and we know more about where we are today than we did last Sunday, but we have a long way to go and a lot of room to improve,\" Brown...
Biden decries 'ugly inferences' against Obama 2008-10-12 23:45:03
...Clinton _ the former Democratic presidential candidate who has her own roots in Scranton, where her father grew up and is buried. The battered economy may be helping Obama in Pennsylvania, where he has surged ahead in polls over the past few weeks. A daily...
McCain vows to whip Obama's 'you know what' 2008-10-12 23:45:02
...dozen volunteers at his campaign headquarters outside Washington, McCain promised some of his signature \"straight talk\" about the state of the race. National and many battleground state polls have shown him trailing Obama amid the deepening market crisis. \"We're...
Michael Peltier: Election folks prepping for the big day 2008-10-12 23:42:57
...such a high-profile race taking shape and Florida again in the cross-hairs, state election officials met with their local counterparts Friday to smooth wrinkles and avoid potential pitfalls as supervisors prepare for record turnout, new polling machinery and...
in Boston, the truth has a right wing radio bias 2008-10-12 23:42:01
...report finding that Gov. Sarah Palin abused her power and violated state ethics laws spells new trouble for the McCain campaign. Special counsel Steve Branchflower's report could lead to fines or legislative action to censure Palin. Got that? \"abused her...
Wajahat Ali: The Republican Red Scare: The Smearing of Obama 2008-10-12 23:41:10
...mom and moose hunting vice-presidential nominee, Sarah Palin, recently stated that Obama might \"pal around with terrorists\" due to his tangential connection to William Ayers, founder of the 1960s radical group the Weather Underground. Furthermore, Palin took...
Hillary: America Can Rise Again 'From The Ashes Of The Bushes\" 2008-10-12 23:41:10
...\"relying on political stunts instead of offering solutions\" and calling McCain \"erratic.\" The Democratic vice-presidential nominee shook his head as he noted \"the ugly inferences and unbecoming personal attacks that have been directed and launched by the McCain...
McCain to visit Letterman show Thursday 2008-10-12 23:37:44
...debate with Sen. Barack Obama. McCain angered Letterman last month when the candidate canceled a scheduled appearance at the last minute. Letterman said McCain told him that the economy was ready to \"crater\" and that he needed to return to Washington -- but,...
Open mutiny in McCain's Republican party 2008-10-12 23:35:20
...new Reuters/Zogby tracking poll showed the Democrat candidate gaining momentum during the past week. From a two-point lead four days ago, the latest reading has Mr Obama up 6 per cent. It showed Mr Obama gaining traction among independent voters for whom the...
People of the Button 2008-10-12 23:35:03
...in 2004. And this year’s candidates? John McCain has a dignified button with an upper-crust-style typeface. In contrast, Barack Obama has adopted a hip new style call it “chutzpadik” or audacious that dispenses with English altogether. With his name written...
Obama Pens an Op-Ed for NY Daily News 2008-10-12 23:34:28
...of it reads like a standard Obama stump speech on the economy--albeit if you read it online, now it's a stump speech with classic News headlines shuffled in like \"MAC: YOU'RE LYING! BAM: STOP DIVIDING!\" Obama does cater parts of the piece directly to the Empire...
Palin plans to visit Indianapolis area Friday 2008-10-12 23:33:49
...nominee Sen. John McCain last visited Indiana on July 1. Palin's visit comes a little more than a week after Democratic Sen. Barack Obama held a rally at the state fairgrounds in Indianapolis. Obama has made six trips to Indiana since the May primary, and...
You Drive This Old Busted Junk 2008-10-12 23:33:45
...in the dust. Take that away and McCain's done. Well, and this shit is OLD. I mean, I'm sorry, but in part of what kept getting Bush close enough to call it in elections is that people were just knocked flat by how brazen his bullshit was, how little it had...
'Hate' claim fires up McCain 2008-10-12 23:32:42
...presidential candidate John McCain and running mate Sarah Palin over the White House decision to remove North Korea from its list of terrorist states. Senator McCain opposed the move but Ms Palin said it was the right decision. Ms Palin was already mired...
Biden Decries 'Ugly Inferences' Against Obama 2008-10-12 23:32:10
...Clinton — the former Democratic presidential candidate who has her own roots in Scranton, where her father grew up and is buried. The battered economy may be helping Obama in Pennsylvania, where he has surged ahead in polls over the past few weeks. A daily...
Mainstream Media Ignores Potential Fraud In Obama Fundraising 2008-10-12 23:30:56
...more than a small portion of Obama’s fundraising haul. The Times’ analysis, conducted over just a few days and looking for obvious anomalies, like names with all consonants, identified about $40,000 in contributions from people that appeared not to exist....
Politico's Simon: McCain and Palin 'Stoking Anger' Towards Obama 2008-10-12 23:30:40
...began? On the other hand, if McCain and Palin are responsible for people's anger towards Obama, are Obama and Joe Biden responsible for people's anger towards Palin? After all, as my colleague Terry Trippany reported earlier today, Palin was greeted with...
“Struggling Families” Ask Obama What He’s Going To Do For Them 2008-10-12 23:29:12
...candidate Barack Obama was repeatedly asked what he could do to help struggling families. His answers ranged from tax cuts to aid for struggling auto companies to measures to reduce home foreclosures. You know what would be refreshing? If a politician were...
Molotov Cocktail Thrown at McCain Sign- Could be “Change”! 2008-10-12 23:29:12
...presidential candidate John McCain in a southeast Portland yard. Karen Scrutton said she was asleep inside her home at 7956 S.E. 17th Ave. in the Sellwood neighborhood when she saw her sign go up in flames after 1 a.m. “I screamed upstairs to my husband, ‘Gene!...
Thug-Life Chronicles Continued... 2008-10-12 23:27:45
...people fitting right in at McCain-Palin rallies. The candidates say nothing. (Or didn't for a week.) The people around them say nothing. Imagine if the people around the nutcases would speak up and say \"No! That is not what John McCain believes, it's not what...
Leaders offer matchup views in key states 2008-10-12 23:27:15
...are perceived in their states. Democratic candidate Barack Obama, the senator from Illinois, leads in polls in Florida, Virginia and Colorado, which went for Republican President George Bush in 2004. \"This campaign is about change. It's about bringing the...
Israel still a key to U.S. Jewish vote 2008-10-12 23:26:38
...courted aggressively by both presidential campaigns, The Hartford Courant reported Sunday. While the economy has become a strong issue, the candidates' stands on Israel continue to be an important factor in reaching the Jewish vote. Israel is a proxy for the...
Palin plans to visit Indianapolis area Friday 2008-10-12 23:26:26
...GOP presidential nominee Sen. John McCain last visited Indiana on July 1. Palin's visit comes a little more than a week after Democratic Sen. Barack Obama held a rally at the state fairgrounds in Indianapolis. Obama has made six trips to Indiana since the...
McCain Tries to Sell Out the Republican Party 2008-10-12 23:26:20
...with under a month until Election Day, McCain's campaign has apparently decided that there is more political benefit in pressing the importance of divided government than pretending the GOP can reclaim the House or Senate. We'll have to wait and see how well...
Welcome to the land of Hate, Your sponsor tonight is the RNC 2008-10-12 23:24:25
...terrorist nor is he (Senator Obama) a Muslim. What I don't see in watching the news is very many black people showing up for these RNC Presidential Campaign stop rallies, nor any other ethnic group other than white people who would put their god and bible...
Palin talks economic worries in Ohio 2008-10-12 23:23:49
...vice presidential nominee Joe Biden is scheduled to visit the area Tuesday. This was a core of President Bush's 2004 re-election bid in this swing state. Two years later, Democrat Ted Strickland won the governorship by a strong showing in this region, and...
McCain says he'll 'whip' Obama in debate 2008-10-12 23:21:25
...\"We will conduct a respectful race and we will make sure that everybody else does too.\" McCain is to campaign Monday in Virginia, which hasn't backed a Democratic presidential candidate since Lyndon Johnson in 1964. Recent polls show Obama has made the state...
Castro says its a miracle Obama hasnt been assassinated 2008-10-12 23:20:59
...marked the US White House race after civil rights icon John Lewis accused Republican candidate John McCain of sowing hatred against Obama, who is developing a commanding lead in opinion polls. Castro also mocked McCains poor grades at the naval academy and...
Palling Around with Meteorologists 2008-10-12 23:20:44
...at the sun.” Gov. Palin’s latest attacks came on the heels of a new poll showing that the only demographic group that still support her are morons, sometimes referred to by political insiders as “no-information voters.” “It may sound like she’s spouting...
Will it be a rout? 2008-10-12 23:18:59
...McCain will out-perform, and Obama under-perform, their generic counterparts. However, the McCain brand has been damaged, with the assistance of the MSM, by Obama’s relentless attacks. In addition, Obama has done a pretty good job of conning voters into believing...
Debate coaches: 'Lost' McCain must up game 2008-10-12 23:18:53
...open to citizens suing the DNC, Frank Raines, Jim Johnson, ACORN and other Democrats for their role in this debacle. John Mccain started his political career in the extramarital bed of a Cindy Hensley (Daughter of Jim Hensley). Now John Mccain's father-in-law...
Town, economy forums slated for Incline 2008-10-12 23:16:24
...discussion about the nations economy and what policies could help or hurt it. The panel will include Incline High School students, two Sierra Nevada College students, four community members with an economic background and representatives from both the Obama...
LAT Trumpets 'Longtime Republicans' For Obama 2008-10-12 23:16:22
...abandoned the GOP ticket. Sarah Palin, he thinks, looks under-equipped to be vice president. And McCain, he says, displayed an unsteady response to what may be a global economic depression. You get the point. The Times is so gleeful over the thought of an...
Biden, Clintons rally for Obama 2008-10-12 23:16:09
...why I’m for Barack Obama and Joe Biden.” Hillary also was unsparing in criticism of McCain and the Republicans, who she said don’t see the middle class as “fundamental,” but “ornamental.” “They don't understand that we are at the core of whether this country...
McCain to \"whip his you know what\" 2008-10-12 23:14:31
...know what in this debate.\" McCain acknowledged what everyone has seen in the polls, telling his volunteers that \"the economy has hurt us a little bit in the last week or two.\" But McCain added that \"in the last few days we've seen it come back up because they...
Republicans warned over incendiary racial slurs by own adviser 2008-10-12 23:14:30
...amid criticism that the Republican candidates are not doing enough to discourage racial slurs on the campaign trail. Mr McCain hit back at his adviser, whom he once described as \"one of the wisest men I know\". He said: \"Mr Lewis's statement was a character...
U.S. gasoline price marks biggest drop ever: survey 2008-10-12 23:12:56
...believe it!! *rolls eyes* Obama/Biden 08!! Powered by DCForum+ Version 1.1 Copyright 1997-2002 DCScripts.com Software has been extensively modified by the DU administrators Important Notices: By participating on this discussion board, visitors agree to abide...
EC may announce poll schedules on Monday 2008-10-12 23:11:56
...EC is keen to get the poll process underway in the four states as the terms of their current assemblies are expiring towards mid-December. In fact, the urgency is less as regards J&K where the outer limit for the EC to complete polls is January 10, when the...
John McCain is returning for that chat with David Letterman 2008-10-12 23:11:23
...after his final debate with Democratic rival Barack Obama at nearby Hofstra University. TrackBack URL for this entry: http://www.typepad.com/t/trackback/816965/34430421 Listed below are links to weblogs that reference : Comments are moderated, and will not...
Leading article: A bounce that won't deliver Mr Brown an election 2008-10-12 23:08:02
...rock the boat. Many of his advisers feel it is enough to sit back and wait for the recession to bite and deliver voters into the arms of the Opposition. But a party seeking to wrest the reins from an old and enfeebled regime cannot maintain this posture for...
Fisk 'shocked' by US failure to debate conflict in Israel 2008-10-12 23:08:02
...him. And he said that vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin's comment at a rally last week that Mr Obama \"is not a man who sees America the way that you and I see America\" had racist undertones that made it \"morally repellent\". It was, Schama said, \"code...
US Election Diary 2008-10-12 23:08:02
...to get it to love Obama. *John McCain will try to kiss and make up with David Letterman this week. The Republican nominee was ribbed relentlessly by the Late Show host after cancelling on him at the last minute. McCain's excuse was he was racing to Washington...
Palin talks economic worries in Appalachian Ohio 2008-10-12 23:06:55
...vice presidential nominee Joe Biden is scheduled to visit the area Tuesday. This was a core of President Bush's 2004 re-election bid in this swing state. Two years later, Democrat Ted Strickland won the governorship by a strong showing in this region, and...
Leader: Fingers crossed for Obama 2008-10-12 23:05:18
...contest has shifted in Mr Obama's favour. This is partly because the Republicans are so deeply associated with the economic philosophy that is now in institutional freefall, partly because the Democrats are, in general terms, still the party of federal action...
Canada campaigns focus on economy 2008-10-12 23:05:02
...for solutions to the crisis, Canada's election campaign has also focused on economic issues. Opposition leaders have blasted Prime Minister Stephen Harper's approach, which has been to say the steady hand of his Conservatives is what is needed to steer the...
McCain fires back over race hate claim 2008-10-12 23:04:59
...with Senator Obama's campaign on a roll, Democratic heavy hitters Bill and Hillary Clinton appeared at their first joint rally for Senator Obama in Scranton, Pennsylvania alongside vice-presidential candidate Joseph Biden. \"This election is too important to...
Kate Bussmann on the Sarah Palin style mania gripping the US 2008-10-12 23:04:16
...about their sneaking admiration for the vice-presidential candidate's style can now indulge guilt-free. At the Medusa Hair Salon in Park Slope, a gentrified, liberal neighbourhood of Brooklyn, a poster in the window offers \"Updos for Obama\". A play on the...
McCain has 3 weeks to reverse Obama lead 2008-10-12 23:02:57
...separates him from Democrat Barack Obama. The veteran Arizona senator and running mate Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, having spent the last week in a largely fruitless effort to hinder Obama's rise in the polls by attacking him on character issues, appeared over...
John McCain tones down high-risk negative campaign 2008-10-12 23:01:39
...hopeful. National polls are showing an Obama lead of between six and 11 points, with several key swing states such as Pennsylvania and Virginia also leaning towards the Democratic candidate. With just three full weeks to go until polling day, McCain is now...
‘Yes’ campaign must be launched to fight cause 2008-10-12 23:00:00
...in fact. They have set up a No campaign, but there isn’t a Yes campaign to contradict them. Giving the No campaign the opportunity to make its case on spurious grounds without challenge risks allowing the referendum to be hijacked. By not backing the early...
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Polls 2008-10-12 22:59:20
...has a 51% to 45% lead over McCain. The 7 point spread, 50-43, is among American adults who are not asked whether or not they are likely to vote. Other pollsters, Scott Rasmussen primarily, have bet on a very significant swing to Democrats between 2004 and...
Foreclosure crisis busies counselors, revises mortgages 2008-10-12 22:58:36
...be restructured,\" Sagar said. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has pledged to revisit the Chapter 13 issue if elected. And in last Tuesday's debate, Republican presidential nominee John McCain said he would direct the federal government to purchase...
The economy really is sound 2008-10-12 22:58:11
...we think. Yep, now that Barack Obama seems to be cruising in for a win in the presidential race the Democrats have realized they talked down the economy waaaaaaaay too much and tipped one too many companies into foreclosure/government seizure. Now there is...
SUSPEND THE ELECTION: CALL FOR MCCAIN TO POSTPONE ELECTION DAY 2008-10-12 22:56:56
...impetus for the fraud was \"an Obama effort,\" as opposed to the Democratic Party as an institution. All of this brings Pennsylvania into focus as yet another key battleground state where a serious effort is being made to, bluntly put, steal the presidency in...
Campaign aides sling accusations of mud 2008-10-12 22:56:47
...angry tone permeating the campaign. David Axelrod, chief strategist for Democrat Barack Obama said on Fox News Sunday that John McCain and Sarah Palin, as the two atop the Republican ticket, bear some responsibility for the vitriol seen at some of their rallies. \"(When)...
Using Technology to Thwart the GOP 2008-10-12 22:53:08
...pursue. The long shot, if Obama wins big, is a larger electoral universe that forces Republicans to play catch-up. The party that spent decades stifling voter turnout, from illegal suppression to court-sanctioned ploys like ID requirements, could find electoral...
Vt. Republicans Focus McCain Efforts In N.H. 2008-10-12 22:48:25
...each other prior to their second presidential debate at Belmont University's Curb Event Center on Oct. 7 in Nashville, Tenn. BARRE, Vt. -- Vermont Republicans are strategizing as Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barrack Obama enjoys a strong lead in several...
Obama Knocks on Doors in Ohio 2008-10-12 22:48:10
...others positions — without McCain/Palin doing so, the “Obama will raise your taxes argument would have no traction — or that voters take so little time to inform themselves about what so many of them say is an important election. Or is it simply a paranoid...
McCain vows to whip Obama's 'you know what' 2008-10-12 22:45:12
...outside Washington, McCain promised some of his signature \"straight talk\" about the state of the race. National and many battleground state polls have shown him trailing Obama amid the deepening market crisis. \"We're a couple points down, OK, nationally, but...
Sean Quinn on Michael Barone 2008-10-12 22:43:03
...apparently fervently hopes Obama has no peer-to-peer efforts: The most successful recent turnout drive was that of the Bush-Cheney '04 campaign, which relied on peer-to-peer volunteers, local people who made connections with neighbors with whom they had something...
ACORN, the GOP, irregularities, and NYC politics... 2008-10-12 22:39:33
...campaign has demanded Barack Obama’s ties to ACORN, an activist organization that runs voter-registration drives, be probed. Registration cards submitted by the group prompted fraud investigations in Nevada, Connecticut, Missouri, and at least five other states...
McCain vows to whip Obama's 'you know what' 2008-10-12 22:36:34
...said he is weighing new economic proposals to help the nation weather the financial crisis. The Arizona senator refused to answer a reporter's question Sunday about what plans he might be considering. Addressing several dozen volunteers at his campaign headquarters...
OBAMA SAYS ACORN WILL SHAPE HIS PRESIDENTIAL AGENDA 2008-10-12 22:36:30
... There is PROOF that Obama used his elected office—and taxpayers’ dollars—to support Kenya’s Raila Odinga, self touted as... Great article... it looks beyond the symptoms of our economic crisis, and drive home one of the core... You make...
Working The Refs 2008-10-12 22:36:03
...if only they could vote for the McCain of 2000, they would, etc. This constitutes brilliant campaigning by the Obama team. But let's be honest as well; it isn't as if the Obama campaign had to work hard to set the rhetorical groundwork in the way that it did....