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Obama's Organization Delivered Impressive Results Against McCain.(Barack Obama and John McCain)

Article from: U.S. News & World Report Article date: November 14, 2008 Author: Barone, Michael

Byline: Michael Barone

I have not had enough time to look closely at the election returns in all target states, much less all the 50 states. But my initial take on the returns in two neighboring states, Ohio and Indiana, shows an interesting contrast. Ohio was a target state in 2004 and 2000; Indiana wasn't but was this time. Indeed, from the 1970s up through 2004, Indiana has been in national elections much more Republican than the neighboring Great Lakes states. That changed in the 2006 off-year elections, when Democrats picked up three seats by impressive margins, and ...

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Look Who's Running for a Third Term— for Karl Rove

Posted Jul 4, 08 12:20 PM CDT in Politics,  Opinion 

Look Who's Running for a Third Term— for Karl Rove
Source: AP Photo/Danny Johnston

(Newser) – This week's firefight over what Wesley Clark did or didn't say about John McCain's war record doesn't just remind us that most campaign brouhahas these days are about things that didn't even happen, writes Paul Krugman in the New York Times. It also reveals the long arm of Karl Rove. "The latest fake scandal fit the usual pattern as an awkwardly phrased remark, lifted out of context and willfully misinterpreted, exploded across the airwaves," he writes.

The McCain campaign didn't just condemn Clark’s remarks, "it went out of its way to distort them," Krugman writes, noting the irony that the designated surrogate was a retired colonel who appeared in the Swift boat ad attacking John Kerry's service. The press took the bait, reporting "as fact the false assertion that Gen. Clark criticized Mr. McCain’s military service," though some outlets seemed to have recovered their balance by week's end.

Source: New York Times

More about:  Barack Obama • Election 2008 • John McCain • Karl Rove • Wesley Clark

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  It Ain't Over Yet: Rove 

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(Newser) - John McCain’s campaign may be down, but he’s not yet out, writes Karl Rove in the Wall Street Journal . Voters still have real doubts about Barack Obama, and McCain may have enough time yet to turn those doubts into votes for him. Some 45% of voters in one recent poll said Obama isn’t qualified for the job—the highest “unqualified” rating since 1988. More »

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