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July 2008
- McCain Video Mocks Media Coverage of Obama
  
  newser | ABC News | Jul 22, 08 7:14 PM CDT
  
  The McCain campaign debuted an Internet video today it says documents the press corps’ one-sided swoon over Barack Obama, ABC News reports. Set to music, the video features on-air personalities—MSNBC's Chris Matthews is among those featured prominently—offering adoring sentiments about Obama. It also airs Democratic-primary complaints from top Hillary Clinton backers who charged a similar bias. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • John McCain • media bias • Chris Matthews • campaign press corps
- McCain's Long-Shot Status Slips Into No-Shot Territory
  
  newser | Time | Jul 22, 08 3:35 PM CDT
  
  The presidential race has broken so hard in Barack Obama’s direction that Michael Grunwald asks “the question the horse-race-loving media are never supposed to ask” in Time : “Is McCain a no-shot?” The Republican is in dire straits, having lost advantage on Iran (Bush is moving toward negotiation), the economy (voters want federal intervention) and now Iraq (Maliki is with Obama on withdrawal). More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Iraq • John McCain • Iran • Nouri al-Maliki • economy
- Candidates Failing to Reach Florida's Hispanic Voters
  
  newser | St. Petersburg Times | Jul 22, 08 2:36 PM CDT
  
  Hispanics could swing the presidential election in November, especially in crucial Florida, but the presumptive nominees aren’t reaching them, the St. Petersburg Times reports. Hispanics tend to vote on issues rather than along strictly party lines, but the media and candidates are pushing immigration reform though polls show the economy and education atop their list of concerns—with immigration reform 10th. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • John McCain • election 2008 • Latino voters • the Hispanic vote • swing states • Cuban Americans • Florida voting
- Jews Like Obama Far Better Than Lieberman, McCain
  
  newser | Huffington Post | Jul 22, 08 1:11 PM CDT
  
  Despite Barack Obama’s much debated Jewish problems—and Joe Lieberman’s place of pride as unofficial Jewish spokesman—the Dem is viewed favorably by 60% of American Jews and unfavorably by only 34%, while the Independent scores 37% and 48% (McCain comes in at 34% and 57%). The numbers are part of a poll by new progressive Jewish group J Street—which also notes that the demographic prefers liberal MoveOn to right-leaning AIPAC. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • John McCain • George W. Bush • Joe Lieberman • the Jewish vote • opinion polls • AIPAC • MoveOn.org
- Guarded Cindy Gives McCain Perfect Accessory
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jul 22, 08 11:46 AM CDT
  
  Cindy McCain has been a candidate’s wife for more than half her life, and she’s gotten pretty good at it, the Washington Post reports in a profile. The demur, good-looking, stay-at-home mom knows how to humanize her husband and avoid policy talk. “I don't see any chink in her armor,” says her mother-in-law, “and I'm not biased.” But Mrs. John McCain has an intensely guarded, even sometimes secretive, private side. More »
  
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  John McCain • first lady • drug addiction • Cindy McCain • wife
- Obama Beefs Up Foreign Policy Cred in Iraq
  
  newser | New York Times | Jul 22, 08 8:30 AM CDT
  
  Presidential candidate Barack Obama's weeklong tour of seven countries has so far been fruitful, politically agile, and especially lucky, reports the New York Times . The Illinois senator's withdrawal plan received a timely endorsement from Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki, coinciding with President Bush's embrace of a "time horizon" for pulling troops out of the war-torn country. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Iraq • John McCain • Iraq war • United States • Nouri al-Maliki • troop withdrawal
- McCain May Announce VP This Week
  
  newser | CNN | Jul 22, 08 7:18 AM CDT
  
  Speculation is heating up that John McCain may pick his running mate this week, in a move to divert attention from the media frenzy surrounding Barack Obama's tour through the Mideast and Europe, CNN reports. Then again, there's speculation that the VP rumors themselves are just a “head fake” to distract from the saturation Obama coverage. More »
  
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  John McCain • McCain 2008 • vice presidential sweepstakes • vice presidential candidate
- Times Rejects McCain Op-Ed 'as Currently Written'
  
  newser | Drudge Report | Jul 21, 08 9:36 PM CDT
  
  The New York Times has turned down John McCain's rebuttal to a recent Barack Obama op-ed on Iraq, telling the Republican’s campaign it isn’t “able to accept this piece as currently written.” A campaign insider tells Drudge that the Grey Lady simply doesn’t agree with his candidate’s policies; the op-ed editor maintains Mac didn’t “offer new information” in his piece. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Iraq • John McCain • New York Times
- McCain, Obama to Share Megachurch Stage
  
  newser | Los Angeles Times | Jul 21, 08 5:49 PM CDT
  
  Influential evangelical pastor Rick Warren has scored the first joint appearance by Barack Obama and John McCain. The presidential candidates will spend just a few minutes on stage together at Warren's Saddleback Church next month between back-to-back interviews with the pastor. It will be the country’s first look at both candidates in one place, the LA Times reports. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • John McCain • evangelicals • megachurches • Rick Warren
- McCain Needs Clinton-Style Rebranding
  
  newser | National Review | Jul 21, 08 4:30 PM CDT
  
  John McCain desperately needs a dose of the strategy that kept Hillary Clinton competitive with Barack Obama during primary season, Rich Lowry and Ramesh Ponnuru write in the National Review . McCain should adopt a “conservative version of her occasional theme of a ‘fighter for you’”—the “you” being middle-class Americans and the enemy being “lobbyists, institutions, and liberals.” More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • John McCain • blue-collar vote • lobbyists • liberals
- Obama Reaps Benefits of Trip McCain Prodded Him Into
  
  newser | New Republic | Jul 21, 08 3:53 PM CDT
  
  John McCain’s campaign made a grave miscalculation by spotlighting Barack Obama’s lack of foreign travel, Noam Scheiber writes in the New Republic , “an incredibly superficial critique” that “can be rebutted incredibly superficially”—see Obama’s current photo-op overseas tour. Hard to believe the Republicans didn’t realize the trip “might become the media event of the season,” Scheiber says. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Iraq • John McCain • Europe • publicity
- Forget the Polls: Obama's a Nov. Shoo-In
  
  newser | Financial Times (UK) | Jul 21, 08 3:08 PM CDT
  
  It’s hard to reconcile Barack Obama’s narrow lead in the polls with the massive enthusiasm that seems to surround his campaign, so Clive Cook of the Financial Times has some advice: Ignore the polls. Midsummer polls are notoriously worthless, he says. Instead, he touts political scientist Alan Abramowitz’s “election barometer,” which has correctly called 14 of the last 15 elections. It’s predicting an Obama landslide. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • John McCain • Obama 2008 • McCain 2008 • poll numbers • election history
- Evangelical Dobson Softens on McCain
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jul 21, 08 2:29 PM CDT
  
  James Dobson still won’t formally endorse John McCain, but the evangelical leader voiced support for the Republican candidate in a radio broadcast today, the AP reports. “Barack Obama contradicts and threatens everything I believe about the institution of the family and what is best for the nation,” Dobson said, forcing him “to reevaluate the candidacy of our only other choice.” More »
  
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  Barack Obama • John McCain • election 2008 • abortion • evangelicals • James Dobson • Republican evangelicals • candidate • Christian conservatives
- Iraq Sands Shifting Under McCain Position
  
  newser | Politico | Jul 21, 08 1:40 PM CDT
  
  Republican presidential candidate John McCain is stuck in an awkward position after both President Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki moved closer to a withdrawal timetable favored by Barack Obama, Politico notes. McCain has opposed such a measure, but in 2004 asserted that if a sovereign Iraqi government asked US troops to leave, the American government should comply. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Iraq • John McCain • election 2008 • Nouri al-Maliki • troop withdrawal • timetable
- Jimmy Carter, Rogue Ex-President
  
  newser | New York | Jul 21, 08 12:28 PM CDT
  
  Jimmy Carter does things his own way, pursuing peace initiatives in the Middle East and South America whether Washington likes it or not, and generally redefining what it means to be an ex-president. So it’s no wonder “his mind-set and his policies seem to jibe so well with the attitudes of young people, students, and the blogosphere,” Amy Wilentz writes for New York . “In many ways, Carter seems more relevant than George W. Bush.” More »
  
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  Barack Obama • John McCain • election 2008 • Arab Israeli conflict • Jimmy Carter • Palestinian statehood
- Obama Raises $25M in a Single Day
  
  newser | Politico | Jul 21, 08 11:47 AM CDT
  
  Barack Obama brought in more donations on the last day of June than John McCain did in the entire month, Politico reports. The unprecedented $25 million day accounted for nearly half of Obama’s $54 million total. It was one of five days on which the campaign brought in more than $1 million; John McCain had no million-dollar days en route to raising $22 million in June. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • John McCain • Obama 2008 • campaign fundraising • McCain 2008 • Republican National Committee
- How McCain Became a Senate Power
  
  newser | New York Times | Jul 21, 08 9:00 AM CDT
  
  Prior to his 2000 bid for the White House, John McCain spent more time mocking his fellow senators than compromising with them. But after his defeat, the Arizona legislator returned to the Senate with a softened demeanor and got down to the business of legislation. The New York Times looks at how McCain cuts deals with everyone from Democrats to his sworn enemies in his own party, and has become the Senate's most powerful member. More »
  
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  John McCain • Senate • Election 2000 • Dick Durbin • compromise • triangulation
- Clinton Lends Campaign $1M as Debts Mount
  
  newser | New York Times | Jul 21, 08 6:07 AM CDT
  
  Hillary Clinton lent her suspended presidential campaign an additional $1 million at the end of last month, according to filings with the Federal Election Commission. The newest self-loan—the New York senator has now lent herself $13.2 million—underscores how much difficulty she is facing in retiring her mountain of debt. A Clinton spokesman told the New York Times that the new loan was to "pay immediately outstanding debts." More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • John McCain • election 2008 • campaign funds • Federal Election Commission • campaign debt
- McCain in the Minority: Peers Are on the Web
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jul 21, 08 5:14 AM CDT
  
  John McCain may be a Luddite when it comes to the internet—the 71-year-old candidate confesses that he relies on his wife and aides to do his browsing for him—but most of his peers are computer savvy, AP reports. While only 35% of Americans over age 65 are online, three-quarters of white, college-educated American men over the age of 65 routinely use the internet, according to a survey by the Pew Research Center. More »
  
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  John McCain • Internet • senior citizens • computers
- Maliki Backs Obama Iraq Plan
  
  newser | Der Spiegel | Jul 19, 08 3:36 PM CDT
  
  While shying away from a presidential endorsement, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki expressed support for Barack Obama’s 16-month timeline for withdrawal of American troops from Iraq, Der Spiegel reports. He expressed frustration at his country’s lack of control over US forces and said they should leave "as soon as possible, as far as we are concerned." More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Iraq • John McCain • George W. Bush • Iraq war • Nouri al-Maliki • troop withdrawal • endorsement • Iraq exit strategy

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