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Obama 2008 stories: 287 news summaries

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McCain Camp: LA Times Is Suppressing Obama Video

Paper accused of concealing candidate's links to Palestinian scholar

Oct 29, 08 3:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - The McCain campaign is accusing the Los Angeles Times of shirking its journalistic duty by sitting on a tape of Barack Obama speaking at a 2003 dinner in honor of a Palestinian-American scholar and activist. The Times—which wrote about the tape in an April article on Obama's ties to... More »

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 Racism Will Blunt 
 Obama's Lead: 
 Barkley 

Baller-turn-pundit calls polls 'absolutely useless'

Oct 28, 08 3:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - Charles Barkley has news for the experts predicting the Bradley effect won’t undermine Barack Obama’s lead. “The polls are absolutely useless,” the former NBA star says, anticipating a race “down to the wire.” While he concedes some whites will vote Democrat for “their... More »

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Barack Obama • race • racism • Obama 2008 • Election 2008 • Charles Barkley • Bradley effect

 GOP Email 
 Compares 
 Obama 
 to Nazis 


Message to 75,000 Jews unauthorized, Pa. party says

Oct 28, 08 2:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Pennsylvania GOP has disavowed an email that went out last week to 75,000 Jewish voters comparing a vote for Barack Obama to support for the Third Reich. The message, sent out by a consultant charged with securing the Jewish vote, warns that "Jewish Americans cannot afford to... More »

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Holocaust • GOP • Pennsylvania • Republican Party • Obama 2008 • attack ad • the Jewish vote • Election 2008

GLOSSIES

Obama's First 100: Channel FDR, Avoid Clinton Foibles

Democrats hoping for 'new New Deal,' but financial crisis will be drag on any efforts

Oct 27, 08 7:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - Up big in the polls with Election Day fast approaching, “a lot of people around Barack are reading books about FDR’s first 100 days,” one Obama insider tells New York. Aides have gone beyond simply planning his White House transition; they’ve drafted a book-length administration blueprint,... More »

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Barack Obama • Bill Clinton • Rahm Emanuel • Obama 2008 • New Deal • Franklin D. Roosevelt • transition • Election 2008 • 100 days

 Michelle Does Overtime on Trail 

Humanizes husband, plays up working class roots

Oct 25, 08 3:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - With the election mere weeks away, Michelle Obama is a very busy woman, the Washington Post reports. The would-be first lady has been spending more and more time on the campaign trail, humanizing her husband and focusing on his middle-class roots. “He gets it,” she tells an Ohio... More »

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GOP's Weld Jumps Ship, Backs Obama

Ex-governor of Mass. could help swing votes in New Hampshire

Oct 24, 08 10:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - The latest big Republican to jump ship, at least temporarily, is a former Massachusetts governor who supported Mitt Romney in the primaries. Barack Obama is a "once-in-a-lifetime candidate" with "common values" and "an ability to unite and inspire," says William Weld. The Democrats have Massachusetts in... More »

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 Obama Scores 
 in Fantasy 
 Football 

Candidate steps up to sportswriter's challenge

Oct 24, 08 4:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama's too busy be a great fantasy football partner, but the man knows his stuff, writes Rick Reilly at ESPN. The candidate accepted Reilly's challenge to help him draft a team for a week in a fantasy football league and the sportswriter found him on the campaign bus poring... More »

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 Opie, Andy, Fonzie 
 Endorse Obama 

Howard ignites blast from the past in bid to rocket Obama to White House

Oct 24, 08 3:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - Ron Howard has taken a trip down TV memory lane to stump for Barack Obama, reports the Chicago Tribune. In a serious-humorous video posted on Funny or Die, Howard reprises his role as Opie alongside TV pop Sheriff Andy Griffith—who tells Opie he could someday grow up to vote... More »

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endorsement

New York Times:
Obama Is the 'Easy' Choice


Oct 23, 08 9:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - The New York Times is endorsing Barack Obama, calling the choice between him and John McCain an "easy" one. In an editorial to run in tomorrow's edition, the Times says "Obama has met challenge after challenge, growing as a leader and putting real flesh on his early promises... More »

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opinion


 Why GOP 
 Name-Calling 
 Is Backfiring 
 This Time 

Americans aren't buying 'real America' comments: Greenwald

Oct 23, 08 2:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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OPINION

 A Black President 
 Will Boost Brand USA 

Electing Obama will replace America's battered image with one of equality

Oct 23, 08 9:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - Skin color is no reason to vote for anybody, Nick Kristof writes in the New York Times, but there's no denying that electing a black president would give America's image abroad a much-needed boost—"redefining the American 'brand' to be less about Guantánamo and more about equality."... More »

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 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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Obama Passes Off Biden Gaffe as 'Flourish'

'Core point' correct that president will be tested no matter who wins

Oct 22, 08 4:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama sought to blunt criticism of Joe Biden today, saying that though his running mate “engages in rhetorical flourishes,” he was right in saying “the next administration is going to be tested, regardless of who it is,” reports the Chicago Tribune. Critics in the McCain... More »

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OPINION

Shhh. Don't
Tell: I'm Voting for Obama

Disgusted Republicans could cancel out
Bradley Effect

Oct 22, 08 2:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - There are plenty of unpredictable factors that might elude pollsters, Kathleen Parker writes in the Washington Post. Most famous is the Bradley Effect. “While some have minimized the impact of a Bradley Effect in this election, we'd be wrong to discount it. Anti-black has morphed to some degree... More »

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Barack Obama • xenophobia • racism • Obama 2008 • McCain 2008 • Election 2008 • Bradley effect

OPINION

 Is Obama a Radical 
 or Reconciler? 

Or Niebuhrian waffler?

Oct 22, 08 1:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama may be on the brink of the presidency, but many still wonder whether he’s a closet radical, Michael Gerson writes in the Washington Post. He carries a liberal Illinois legislature record, associations with Ayers, Alinsky, Wright, and ACORN, and an “elitist disdain for bitter, God-clinging conservatives,... More »

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 Black Voters Hitting Polls Early 

Early voting big among African Americans

Oct 22, 08 11:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - Black turnout isn’t just expected to be high this year; according to early voting records, it already is, the Wall Street Journal reports. African Americans account for 36% of early ballots in Georgia, for instance, despite making up just 29% of active voters. In 2004, blacks represented 25% of... More »

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Obama Fights Robocall With Robocall

Wis. appeal decries McCain campaign as 'sleazy,' 'dishonorable'

Oct 22, 08 10:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama has robotic telemarketers of his own, and he’s using them to complain about John McCain’s robotic telemarketers. Obama will begin blanketing Wisconsin today with a recorded call from “Jeri Watermolen,” who identifies herself as a Green Bay native who once backed McCain, but has... More »

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OPINION

 London's Mayor Plugs Obama 

Dem can restore US as beacon of hope, Boris Johnson writes

Oct 21, 08 4:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - After President Bush managed an “astonishing double whammy,” damaging both democracy, via Iraq, and capitalism, on Wall Street—“the two great pillars of the American idea”—London mayor Boris Johnson sees Barack Obama as the candidate who can rejuvenate “the greatest country on earth,”... More »

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 Hillary, Obama Blitz 
 Fla. for Early Votes 

Clinton, Obama take to the stage together as Dems battle to flip the Sunshine State

Oct 21, 08 6:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton threw herself into the battle for Florida as early voters packed polling places yesterday, the Washington Post reports. Barack Obama, pulling out all stops in an effort to flip the state to the Democratic side, led a crowd of 50,000 in chants of "Hil-lar-y" as the... More »

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Florida • Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Obama 2008 • Election 2008 • swing states • battleground states

Amid Questions, Biden Releases Medical Records

Gaps in VP hopeful's history raise some lingering issues

Oct 20, 08 2:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - As questions about the medical history of all four national candidates continue to circulate, Joe Biden released a cache of records today that indicate the 65-year-old VP hopeful is in good health, the AP reports. Like many men his age, Biden takes a cholesterol-lowering drug and has an enlarged prostate,... More »

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Joe Biden • Obama 2008 • Election 2008 • medical records • health records • Obama-Biden

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