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July 2008
- Crist Could Be Key as Veep Pick
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jul 16, 08 12:59 PM CDT
  
  Florida’s importance in the general election can hardly be overstated, and his presumed ability to deliver it for the Republicans is at the heart of the case for popular governor Charlie Crist in the veepstakes, writes Chris Cillizza for the Washington Post . McCain may select a VP with more conservative bona fides, assuming he’ll take Florida with or without Crist, but that could be a mistake. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • John McCain • Florida • vice presidential sweepstakes • Republican • Charlie Crist • vice presidential candidate
- Does al-Qaeda Do the Fist-Bump?
  
  newser | Slate | Jul 16, 08 12:36 PM CDT
  
  Terrorists aren’t big on fist-jabbing or bumping—they’re all about kissing and hugging, writes Juliet Lapidos for Slate in the aftermath of the New Yorker's depiction of knuckle-knocking Obamas, a move referred to by Fox News as a “terrorist fist-jab.” Al-Qaeda members, she writes, are likely to enlist a common Middle Eastern welcome of three cheek-to-cheek embraces. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • al-Qaeda • Osama bin Laden • FARC • Fox News • New Yorker magazine • IRA
- Obama to Take Diplomatic Ace to Israel
  
  newser | Time | Jul 16, 08 12:13 PM CDT
  
  In a move that should put voters at ease who are skeptical of his stance on Israel and Iran, Barack Obama has added Dennis Ross to his Middle East entourage, Massimo Calabresi writes in Time . The well-known diplomat was lead Israeli-Palestinian negotiator under Clinton and the first Bush, and his presence on the trip will be “reassuring” to Israelis and American Jews who have been skeptical of the Dem. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Iran • Bill Clinton • Arab Israeli conflict • Fox News • George H. W. Bush • diplomats
- Obama Machine Knows What You Want
  
  newser | Salon | Jul 16, 08 10:21 AM CDT
  
  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. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Internet • presidential election • Howard Dean
- Racial Divide Persists Despite Obama: Poll
  
  newser | New York Times | Jul 16, 08 12:57 AM CDT
  
  Barack Obama's often hailed "post-racial" run for the White House is, in fact, unfolding in an America still sharply divided by race, a New York Times /CBS News poll has discovered. The lives of most Americans are as racially segregated as they were 8 years ago, the poll says. Black and white Americans differed on almost every question on race relations—although both agreed America is ready for a black president. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • poll • race • race relations • racial inequality • African-Americans • New York Times/CBS News poll
- In Break With Policy, US to Join Iran Nuke Talks
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jul 16, 08 12:17 AM CDT
  
  In a break with long-standing policy, a top US envoy will join European Union talks with Iran concerning its nuclear program, reports the Washington Post. Undersecretary of State William Burns will join the EU's foreign policy chief and Iran's nuclear negotiator in Geneva this weekend. Burns will hold out the possibility of direct talks with the US if Iran ceases enriching uranium. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Iran • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • Tehran • nuclear proliferation • Javier Solana • Saeed Jalili
- McCain Adopts Obama's Afghanistan Position
  
  newser | Huffington Post | Jul 15, 08 5:12 PM CDT
  
  John McCain suddenly switched both schedule and policy today, transforming a speech about jobs into one on Afghanistan, and echoing Barack Obama's argument for sending in new brigades. Obama has long said more troops are needed in Afghanistan, but McCain has repeatedly contended that NATO should pick up the slack, the Huffington Post reports. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • John McCain • Afghanistan • surge • flip flop • Joint Chiefs of Staff • troop levels
- Equal Pay Is Obama's Women Card
  
  newser | Politico | Jul 15, 08 4:05 PM CDT
  
  Barack Obama isn't talking about Roe v. Wade much before female audiences these days, Politico reports, focusing rather on a case seen to have undermined women's rights to equal pay. In highlighting Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tires rather than abortion, the Democrat is tapping into economic concerns while steering clear of an issue even pro-choice Americans can find distasteful. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Obama 2008 • women • abortion • Roe v. Wade • equal pay • Equal Opportunity • Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
- Two National Polls: Obama Up 9, 8
  
  newser | Boston Globe | Jul 15, 08 3:32 PM CDT
  
  Barack Obama leads John McCain nationally in a new Quinnipiac poll, 50% to 41%, with huge advantages among female and young voters. The two split independents with 44% apiece, and McCain led 47%-44% among men and 49%-42% among white voters, the Boston Globe reports. Far more respondents said they were uncomfortable with a president aged 72 than with a black president. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • John McCain • young voters • independents • white voters • opinion polls • the female vote
- How Chicago Made Obama a Politician
  
  newser | New Yorker | Jul 15, 08 3:00 PM CDT
  
  Behind the New Yorker ’s fist-bumping Barack Obama cover, Ryan Lizza chronicles the Democrat’s political education in Chicago, where competing imperatives from the city’s fundraising elite, black urban base, and Daley-down political hierarchy taught him how to massage the system—and learn the kind of political evasion that opponents are beginning to detect. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Chicago • Obama 2008 • New Yorker magazine
- Next Round's on Cindy After Bud Buyout
  
  newser | Reuters | Jul 15, 08 2:20 PM CDT
  
  The $52 billion takeover of Anheuser-Busch means Cindy McCain's stock in the brewing giant is worth between $2.8 million and $5.6 million, Reuters calculates. Though the presidential campaign of her husband, Republican John McCain, didn't say how many shares Cindy owns, it appears she and her dependents have between 40,000 and 80,000 shares—for which InBev's bid offers $70 apiece. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Anheuser-Busch • Cindy McCain • income • InBev
- Pundits Cringe at 'Irony Deficiency' in Cartoon Flap
  
  newser | Salon | Jul 15, 08 1:28 PM CDT
  
  Many writers are scratching their heads at the incensed reactions provoked by the New Yorker ’s Obamas-as-terrorists cover. Here’s some rebuttal: Liberals “have come to regard all images or texts that contain negative stereotypes as too politically dangerous to run,” Gary Kamiya writes in Salon. “Not a single work of satire could ever pass this paranoid test” in which merely acknowledging racism “is to be racist.” More »
  
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  Barack Obama • racism • satire • cartoon • New Yorker magazine
- Obama Campaign Insular, Arrogant, Hill Dems Complain
  
  newser | Politico | Jul 15, 08 12:43 PM CDT
  
  Some Congressional Democrats say they're not feeling the love from Barack Obama's campaign, Politico reports, with the candidate inattentive to broader election strategy and his camp uncommunicative on the day-to-day message blitz. "They think they know what’s right and everyone else is wrong on everything,” one senior staffer said “They are kind of insufferable at this point.” More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Congress • Democrats • campaign fundraising • Nancy Pelosi • Harry Reid • campaign • congressional Democrats • campaign staff
- Voters Split on Candidates' Iraq Stances: Poll
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jul 15, 08 10:00 AM CDT
  
  Barack Obama and John McCain have battled each other to a draw when it comes to Iraq, according to a new Washington Post -ABC News poll. Americans are split more or less down the middle on Iraq policy, with 50% supporting Obama’s withdrawal timetable and 49% backing McCain’s open-ended approach. In general, 47% trust McCain to handle Iraq, while 45% trust Obama. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Iraq • John McCain • election 2008 • poll • Iraq exit strategy • Washington Post ABC poll
- Obama: Swift End to Iraq War Will Strengthen Security
  
  newser | Politico | Jul 15, 08 8:39 AM CDT
  
  Barack Obama will promise a swift end to the Iraq war in a major speech today, arguing that the ongoing conflict “distracts us from every threat that we face,” according to excerpts obtained by Politico. As president, Obama would take the fight to al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan. “The central front in the war on terror is not Iraq,” he says, “and it never was.” More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Iraq • John McCain • election 2008 • Iraq war • Afghanistan • Obama 2008 • Iraq exit strategy • speech
- Late-Night Takes it Easy on Obama
  
  newser | New York Times | Jul 15, 08 7:16 AM CDT
  
  John McCain has been skewered by late-night comics throughout the presidential campaign, but Barack Obama has escaped relatively unscathed. As this week's New Yorker cover flare-up made clear, satirists are struggling to find an angle on the Democratic nominee. The New York Times speaks to half a dozen late-night hosts and writers, who cite everything from fear of racism to their own favoritism to explain the silence. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • television • comedy • David Letterman • Stephen Colbert • late night talk show • late night host
- Obama to NAACP: 'Seize Responsibility'
  
  newser | Chicago Tribune | Jul 15, 08 4:44 AM CDT
  
  Barack Obama stood firm on his message to blacks of personal responsibility in his speech to the NAACP convention yesterday, reports the Chicago Tribune . The candidate, accused by Jesse Jackson last week of "talking down to black people," revisited his theme of personal accountability while stressing that responsibility also must be demanded from Washington and Wall Street. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • civil rights • African-American voters • black community • African-Americans • NAACP
- Black Media Outlets Focus on Obama Ads
  
  newser | Advertising Age | Jul 14, 08 6:29 PM CDT
  
  The Barack Obama campaign hasn't spent much on advertising in African-American media, a trend many hope the candidate will reverse as he gears up for the general election, Advertising Age reports. "The audience has to be motivated to get out and vote," says a BET exec who cautions against taking the support of networks' viewers for granted. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • election 2008 • television • African-American voters • black community • campaign advertising • American media • targeted advertising • newspapers
- Slim Poll Gap Looks Good for Mac, at First
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jul 14, 08 5:33 PM CDT
  
  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
- Obama: Goof on 'Undivided' Jerusalem
  
  newser | Reuters | Jul 14, 08 4:35 PM CDT
  
  Amid continuing controversy over his comment that Jerusalem “must remain” the undivided capital of Israel, Barack Obama clarified his words, calling them “poor phrasing,” Reuters reports. “The point we were simply making is that we don't want barbed wire running through Jerusalem,” he said on CNN. Though the US officially recognized the city as Israel’s capital in 1995, it remains the subject of international disagreement. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Israel • Palestine • Arab Israeli conflict • Jerusalem

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