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(Newser) - Barack Obama will be “the best president he can be,” Bob Dylan tells the Times of London, though he has “no idea” if Obama will actually be good at the job. “Most of those guys come into office with the best of intentions and leave as... More »

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Barack Obama • Bob Dylan • presidential politics • memoir • book • Dreams From My Father • celebrity interview • President Obama

 Enquirer 'Catches' 
 Cindy McCain 
 in Tryst 

Tabloid says wife cheating for years on GOP candidate

Nov 12, 08 2:01 PM CST
(Newser) - The National Enquirer says it has caught Cindy McCain “passionately” locking lips with a long-haired, “washed-up ‘80s rock musician” type. The tabloid revealed its “world exclusive” spy photos—admittedly grainy—of the pair at a 2006 music festival in Phoenix. A Huffington Post reader shed doubt... More »

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John McCain • politics • marriage • presidential politics • affair • National Enquirer • Cindy McCain • campaign • cheating • Sarah Palin

 AP Poll: It's a Dead Heat 


Oct 22, 08 6:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - Not all the polls are going in Barack Obama's favor. An AP-GfK survey says John McCain has closed the gap with Obama after the last debate by gaining voters among whites and those earning less than $50,000. The poll has the race at 44%-43% in favor of Obama, a... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • presidential politics • Obama 2008 • McCain 2008 • Election 2008 • poll numbers

(Newser) - The striking thing about this election season isn’t how different it’s been from years past, “but precisely how similar,” Joan Didion writes for Salon. "Time got wasted in the familiar ways," she laments. The country is in the grip of a startling transformation, but... More »

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presidential politics • Election 2008 • change • election history

Winning on the Web, Obama Turns to Xbox Advertising

Billboard in online racing game marks another first for Dem's campaign

Oct 14, 08 4:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama’s campaign has been lauded for its online efforts, but in the race to make high-speed connections with voters, the Democrat has taken another “new media” leap, placing a campaign billboard inside an Xbox 360 online racing game. While politicians have promoted themselves online before, this is... More »

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Barack Obama • online advertising • presidential politics • gaming • Electronic Arts • Election 2008 • video games

(Newser) - Barack Obama may be pulling slowly away from John McCain, but he's the overwhelming choice among the pre-K through 12th grade set. In a Scholastic poll, 57% of 250,000 students picked the Dem, USA Today reports. And don’t write it off as youthful inexperience —the poll has... More »

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Barack Obama • presidential politics • Scholastic • youth • Barack Obama supporters • Election 2008 • high school students • students

OPINION

 McCain's Down, But Not Out 

History shows that McCain can surge

Oct 14, 08 10:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - With Obama pulling well ahead of the Straight Talk Express, "the 2008 campaign seems poised to enter its Harry Truman phase," writes Walter Shapiro in Salon. But a November comeback isn’t out of the question. Shapiro runs down four factors that could push McCain into the White... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • presidential politics • Election 2008 • Straight Talk Express • polls

ANALYSIS

Mudslingers Today No Match for Jefferson

Dirty campaigning has always been a feature of American democracy

Oct 13, 08 3:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - The 2008 presidential race is getting rough, but the combatants look well-mannered compared to mudslingers of the 19th century. Thomas Jefferson was called an “infidel” and an “unbeliever,” while John Adams was accused of possessing a “hideous hermaphroditical character.” Although “everybody always assumes there... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • presidential politics • history • Abraham Lincoln • John Quincy Adams • Election 2008 • Thomas Jefferson • John Adams

 Tech Tools Gauge 
 Politicians' Spin 

Technology analyzes speech, voice and facial expressions to help researchers read politicians' lips

Sep 18, 08 4:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - Want to know if John McCain and Barack Obama are stretching the truth? Speech, voice, and facial recognition technology is helping researchers determine just that, New Scientist reports. Analyzing words from 150 speeches from the presidential election, one researcher found that Obama used much higher “levels of spin” than... More »

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presidential politics • facial recognition technology • voice recognition

OPINION

 The Bromance 
 of Mac & Graham 

SC senator plays eager foil to Republican nominee's quirks

Sep 5, 08 4:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - “While most politicians collect allies, McCain collects followers,” Eve Fairbanks writes in the New Republic, and there’s no better example than Sen. Lindsey Graham, McCain’s “sidekick” and foil in the nation's most prominent “bromance.” McCain’s top stump surrogate is no stranger to... More »

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John McCain • presidential politics • Lindsey Graham • campaign trail • McCain 2008 • Election 2008

Opinion

 Obama:
 'Presumptuous' Nominee

Holds court in DC as though he were already elected

Jul 30, 08 9:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama isn’t the president yet, but no one seems to have broken that news to Barack Obama. The Democrats' presumptive, and increasingly "presumptuous," nominee spent yesterday cavorting about Washington as though he already owned the place, writes Dana Milbank of the Washington Post. Obama... More »

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Barack Obama • Washington DC • presidential politics • Obama 2008 • hubris

GOP Parodies Obama's Facebook Page

'Barackbook'
highlights candidate's
controversial 'friends'

Jul 30, 08 1:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - The GOP is lampooning Barack Obama's popular Facebook page with something it calls Barackbook. The fake Facebook clone features a frowning Obama whose status reads "hoping to settle on an Iraq policy before November," Wired reports. In addition, the imaginary FriendFeed highlights controversial figures associated with the... More »

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Barack Obama • social networking • Internet • satire • GOP • Facebook • presidential politics • Election 2008 • controversy

Judaism's Black Converts Growing Part of US Mosaic

More African-Americans switch religions even as Obama seeks to renew connection

Jul 17, 08 8:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - The number of African-Americans converting to Judaism is growing, the Christian Science Monitor reports, at a time when Democrat Barack Obama is seeking to renew what was once a strong alliance between the groups. Politics, though, plays a small role; "Obama's candidacy, African-Americans choosing to be Jews ... is all... More »

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Barack Obama • Jews • religion • presidential politics • conversion • Election 2008 • black voters

OPINION

No More
Navel-Gazing;
Go After McCain

Obama must make the race be about GOP failures, not himself

Jul 16, 08 8:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - There are two races for president this year, Michael Tomasky writes in the Guardian, “a race about Barack Obama and a race about what the GOP has done to the country.” And Obama would be well served to turn the focus to John McCain, whose recent gaffes have... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • presidential politics • Election 2008 • opinion • political strategy

GLOSSIES

6 Maxims for
Navigating the
VP Search 

Media often miss
behind-the-scenes
political intrigue

Jul 2, 08 2:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - While pundits stoke the frenzy around potential vice-presidential candidates, they rarely see what actually happens behind the campaign curtain. In Men's Vogue, Lloyd Grove offers six maxims to help make sense of the "veepstakes" hype:
  • Presidential hopefuls seek input from several quarters to curry favor, though most
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media • presidential campaign • presidential politics • list • political strategists • vice presidential candidate

ANALYSIS

 Daytime TV as Campaign Stop 

'Low-info' voters, soft-pedaling hosts want personal details

Jun 3, 08 2:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - You know where they stand on gas prices, but what about pantsuits and family pets? Hillary Clinton, John McCain, and Barack Obama are making the rounds of daytime talk shows and celebrity gossipfests, courting "low-info" voters—those mostly white, working class, and undecided folks who haven't been paying much... More »

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television • Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • John McCain • The View • presidential politics • Jon Stewart • Stephen Colbert • daytime talk show • Access Hollywood

Political Cartoons No Longer Front and Center

Power of the pen left behind in 20th century

Mar 1, 08 8:26 PM CST
(Newser) - Political cartoons remain, but they lost front page power and heft long ago, says U.S. News & World Report. Cartoonists like Thomas Nast could once sway elections—Ulysses S. Grant credited Nast's pencil to helping him win the presidency—but the ranks of full-time pen-and-paper satirists have thinned... More »

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newspaper • politics • John F. Kennedy • presidential politics • Richard Nixon • magazine • editorial cartoons • Doonesbury • Abraham Lincoln • Thomas Nast • Ulysses Grant • Gary Trudeau

Clinton Camp Calls Obama Plagiarist

He says same of her, but admits he 'should have' credited lines

Feb 18, 08 6:48 PM CST
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton accused Barack Obama of plagiarism today over a speech he gave two nights ago, the Swamp blog reports. Obama retaliated by hitting Hillary with five instances of her robbing his words, including "Yes, we can" and "Bring this country together." But the Illinois senator later... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • plagiarism • presidential politics • Clinton 2008 • Obama 2008 • Deval Patrick • Election 2008

Religion Remains Flashpoint With Huckabee

GOP candidate sounds off on creationism in schools, Romney's Mormon faith

Dec 5, 07 10:40 PM CST
(Newser) - A month before the Iowa caucuses, Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee reacted with frustration when asked if creationism should be taught in public schools, the AP reports. Huckabee, a Southern Baptist minister who has said he does not believe in Darwin's theory of evolution, said his personal views on religion... More »

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education • evolution • Iowa • presidential campaign • GOP • religion • creationism • Mike Huckabee • presidential politics • human evolution • campaign trail • Iowa caucus • public schools

Bush, Cheney Should Quit Over Scooter

Resignation, impeachment the only options, argues Olbermann

Jul 4, 07 6:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - MSNBC's Keith Olbermann came out swinging last night, demanding the resignation of both the president and VP—"two men who are now perilous to our democracy." Drawing on both John Wayne and James Madison, the anchor donned his commentator hat to contend that commuting Scooter Libby's sentence was... More »

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Dick Cheney • politics • democracy • presidential pardon • presidential politics • Bush impeachment • president • commutation • partisanship • government • resignation • Lewis Scooter Libby • vice president • George W. Bush

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