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  • August 2008

    • Mac's Preferred Contest: Obama as Incumbent

      Washington Post  |  Aug 11, 08 3:00 PM CDT

      Mac's Preferred Contest: Obama as Incumbent

      (Newser) - John McCain is doing perhaps the only thing he can to win this race—casting Barack Obama as the incumbent and attacking him, writes E.J. Dionne Jr. in the Washington Post . It makes sense: People are tiring of the heavy coverage of Obama, it seems, and McCain knows that if the race becomes a referendum purely on issues, his links to President Bush and the GOP will hurt him. More »

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      Barack Obama  • John McCain  • Election 2008  • negative campaigning  • campaign advertising  • incumbents

  • July 2008

    • Slim Poll Gap Looks Good for Mac, at First

      Washington Post  |  Jul 14, 08 5:33 PM CDT

      Slim Poll Gap Looks Good for Mac, at First

      (Newser) - A new poll shows Barack Obama up just 3% on John McCain (from 15% a few weeks ago), and another has them tied—numbers that look fantastic for the presumptive Republican nominee at first blush, Chris Cillizza writes in the Washington Pos t. "Given the tilt of this electorate, it's fairly surprising that Obama hasn't been able to 'close the deal' with voters," one GOP pollster says. More »

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      Barack Obama  • John McCain  • GOP  • independent voters  • polling  • incumbents

    • History Against McCain Winning Third Term for GOP

      Boston Globe  |  Jul 14, 08 4:10 PM CDT

      History Against McCain Winning Third Term for GOP

      (Newser) - In all six elections since 1928 in which one party had 8 consecutive years in the White House, the incumbent party lost popular vote ground; in four, Americans voted for change. That's bad news for John McCain, Robert David Sullivan writes in the Boston Globe , because George Bush only won 50.7% of the national popular vote in 2004. More »

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      John McCain  • George W. Bush  • Al Gore  • New Jersey  • Pennsylvania  • Delaware  • incumbents  • election history

    • GOP Firewall: 2011 Redistricting

      Huffington Post  |  Jul 7, 08 12:36 PM CDT

      GOP Firewall: 2011 Redistricting

      (Newser) - Republicans may be pessimistic about November 2008, but they’re feeling pretty good about November 2010. The census that year will spark a round of congressional redistricting, and if Republicans can pick up some statehouses, they might find themselves with a much bigger Capitol contingent. A rep for the party’s governors tells the Huffington Post, “We could feasibly see 25 to 30 congressional seats swing.” More »

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      Congress  • governor  • Tom DeLay  • incumbents  • redistricting

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