Dem's triumph in strip set for next week; some papers dismayed
Washington Post Oct 31, 08 3:36 PM CDT
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Cartoonist Garry Trudeau has put his newspaper clients in to a bit of a pickle, the Washington Post reports. In a bid to stay current, Wednesday’s installment of "Doonesbury"—written a week in advance—will show characters reacting to a Barack Obama victory. The choice is “a rational risk assessment,” Trudeau said. Replacements are being made available to papers who’d rather not chance it.
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Americans aren't buying 'real America' comments: Greenwald
Salon Oct 23, 08 2:09 PM CDT
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The spectacle of Republican politicians painting their opponents as anti-American is a familiar one, Glenn Greenwald writes for Salon, but three recent headline-making incidents show that something has changed. "The idea that any of them would apologize for insulting liberals or impugning their patriotism is simply unfathomable," he writes—and yet they did.
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GLOSSIES
Vogue Oct 16, 08 6:22 PM CDT
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The McCain-Palin team's affinity for Joe Six-Pack and Joe the Plumber gets the press, but the Democrats have their own champion of the average Joe (and not just because she's married to one) in Jill Biden, writes Jonathan Van Meter in Vogue . The prospective second lady—college professor; political wife who avoids the spotlight; mother of three who rocks “skinny, non-mom jeans”—“could turn out to be the campaign's secret weapon.”
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CNN Oct 9, 08 10:16 PM CDT
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Nearly half (47%) of Americans are worried that John McCain, if elected, would not finish his first term in good health, a CNN poll shows. Nearly 20% percent of respondents thought the same about rival Barack Obama. Only 7% of those questioned said that the health of a candidate would be the defining factor in their vote, while 24% said they would seriously consider it.
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OPINION
San Francisco Chronicle Oct 8, 08 10:01 AM CDT
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What viewers see is as important as what they hear in debates. So what did pundits see? "The expressions on John McCain's face, and the irritation in his voice, said it all," writes the San Francisco Chronicle. McCain “was a portrait of frustration,” while Obama looked like the proverbial “cool hand at the tiller”—just what McCain said the country needs.
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He might be unable to define what change means, but Barack's the only horse in the race, say mag's editors
Esquire Oct 8, 08 7:45 AM CDT
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Barack Obama "is the only possible choice to lead the country," says Esquire , though the magazine’s position is less an endorsement of Obama and more a treatise against John McCain. Obama has failed to define his key campaign theme of change “except as all those things encompassed by the phrase ‘Elect me’”—but he still represents a departure from George W. Bush that McCain does not.
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But with 29 days to go, neither candidate is exactly galloping to
the finish line
Politico Oct 6, 08 11:18 AM CDT
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There are 29 scant days until Nov. 4, but you might not know there was a tight race for the White House given the leisurely schedules both candidates have been keeping—especially John McCain, reports Politico. McCain and Barack Obama have each been averaging barely more than one campaign event per day since the Republican convention ended, and McCain has taken at least a day off each weekend.
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Ex-adviser argues they're shooting for another run in 2012
Daily Telegraph (UK) Sep 13, 08 11:55 AM CDT
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The Clintons may be campaigning for Obama, but they really want McCain to win so Hillary can run in 2012, friend-turned-foe Dick Morris tells the UK Telegraph . And if that happens, get ready for a historic Clinton-Palin showdown (Morris thinks McCain would not run again) that will shake up the role of women in politics. "In Palin, you have an authentic model of feminism and in Hillary you have a counterfeit one," says Morris, who argues that Hillary would be nowhere without Bill.
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Bhutto's widower backed by
Parliament, US
New York Times Sep 6, 08 8:00 AM CDT
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Asif Ali Zardari, widower of assassinated Benazir Bhutto, easily won Pakistan’s presidential election today in an unsurprising outcome favored by the US, the New York Times reports. Zardari, who has little governing experience, gains significant authority, including the ability to dissolve Parliament—a power he has pledged to forego. Zardari spent 11 years in jail on unproven corruption charges.
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Prosecutors go after former PM days before presidential vote
Guardian (UK) Sep 2, 08 8:15 AM CDT
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Nawaz Sharif, whose party recently pulled out of Pakistan's ruling coalition, is about to face corruption charges, Pakistani prosecutors said today. A two-time prime minister whom Pervez Musharraf deposed in 1999, Sharif will be charged with money laundering and loan defaults, as well as "the accumulation of wealth beyond his known sources of income." Sharif's lawyer called the charges politically motivated.
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With $10M since bringing Palin on board, GOP looking amply financed
Associated Press Sep 1, 08 8:37 PM CDT
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John McCain’s presidential campaign raised $47 million in August, its biggest monthly take yet, the AP reports. The campaign has apparently received $10 million in donations since McCain announced Friday that Sarah Palin would be his running mate. Officials say the total Republican general-election chest will be at least $224 million by next week, when McCain receives $85 million in public funds.
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'Extraordinarily professional' data-mining operation enables focus on voters
Salon Jul 16, 08 10:21 AM CDT
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Although Barack Obama's campaign might have your email, you probably don’t know how much more data it's got on you, and how effectively it's using it to try to win in November. Salon looks into Obama’s incredible effort to glean powerful demographic information from voters—address, income, grocery store preference, and much, much more—to custom-tailor messages for a diverse electorate.
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