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  • August 2008

    • Obamas Leave for Hawaii

      Reuters  |  Aug 8, 08 4:08 PM CDT

      Obamas Leave for Hawaii

      (Newser) - Barack Obama departed for Hawaii today to kick off a week-long vacation with his family, Reuters reports. He’ll take part in a welcoming rally and fundraiser there, but will otherwise rest from campaign rigors. John McCain attacked his rival’s “beach vacation” in light of the hardships facing ordinary Americans. But Obama defended the trip as an important opportunity to see his grandmother. More »

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      Barack Obama  • John McCain  • politics  • Michelle Obama  • family  • campaign  • Hawaii  • vacation

    • Biblical Images in McCain Ad Evoke Antichrist

      Time  |  Aug 8, 08 3:20 PM CDT

      Biblical Images in McCain Ad Evoke Antichrist

      (Newser) - A John McCain campaign ad appears to play into Internet buzz about Barack Obama as the Antichrist, Time reports, and the spot's biblical flavor has Christian Democrats up in arms. McCain reps have called the ad “creative” and “humorous,” but it uses language evocative of the popular end-times Left Behind series and the Book of Revelation. More »

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      Barack Obama  • John McCain  • McCain 2008  • campaign advertising  • Obama-mentum  • campaign commercials

    • Cheney Gets GOP Convention Slot After All

      Politico  |  Aug 8, 08 12:46 PM CDT

      Cheney Gets GOP Convention Slot After All

      (Newser) - Vice President Dick Cheney will speak on the opening day of the Republican National Convention, Politico reports. Cheney, at odds in the past with presumptive nominee John McCain and unpopular with the public, will speak Sept. 1, prior to President Bush. “John McCain will always treat the Vice President with respect,” a rep said after rumors Cheney wouldn’t be invited. More »

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      John McCain  • George W. Bush  • Dick Cheney  • Republican National Convention

    • Big 'Bundlers' Help Fuel Both Campaigns

      Wall Street Journal  |  Aug 8, 08 11:54 AM CDT

      Big 'Bundlers' Help Fuel Both Campaigns

      (Newser) - Barack Obama and John McCain have racked up nearly 100 “bundler” donors between them who have gathered at least $500,000 each from friends and co-workers to support their chosen candidates, the Wall Street Journal reports. The candidates’ spending suggests the fundraisers are breaking bundling records set during the campaigns of President Bush, the first candidate to reap big benefits from the system. More »

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      Barack Obama  • John McCain  • Election 2008  • campaign fundraising  • campaign finance  • political donors

    • Batman or Spidey? McCain, Obama Weigh In

      Entertainment Weekly  |  Aug 8, 08 10:20 AM CDT

      Batman or Spidey? McCain, Obama Weigh In

      (Newser) - Closet ABBA fan: Obama or McCain? The two presidential hopefuls recently bared all to Entertainment Weekly , revealing their pop-culture preferences: Favorite superhero: Obama: Spiderman, McCain: Batman iPod playlist: Obama: Frank Sinatra, Sheryl Crow, John Coltrane, Bob Dylan; McCain: Roy Orbison, Linda Rhonstadt, Usher, and yes, ABBA More »

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      Barack Obama  • John McCain  • Election 2008  • Batman  • presidential candidates  • Jerry Seinfeld  • pop culture  • Indiana Jones  • Spider-Man  • ABBA  • Bambi

    • Feel That? It's the Race Shifting: Noonan

      Wall Street Journal  |  Aug 8, 08 10:09 AM CDT

      Feel That? It's the Race Shifting: Noonan

      (Newser) - Barack Obama’s victory once seemed inevitable—but in the past month, a glimmer of real hope has emerged for John McCain, writes Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal . McCain's creeping up in the polls—even on YouTube—while Obama’s squeaky-clean image in the press has been somewhat sullied by suggestions he’s “arrogant, aloof and ethereal.” It's "small stuff, and there will be a lot of twists and turns before this is over, but there's movement down there beneath the crust of the Earth." More »

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      Barack Obama  • John McCain  • Election 2008  • campaign tactics

    • Ambition Carries Pawlenty to VP Short List

      New York Times  |  Aug 8, 08 8:48 AM CDT

      Ambition Carries Pawlenty to VP Short List

      (Newser) - Tim Pawlenty grew up in the blue-collar stockyards of south St. Paul, but through ambition and charm he’s climbed his way to the top office in Minnesota—and the top tier of John McCain’s VP short list. But critics say that ambition could prove his undoing, the New York Times reports. Pawlenty’s obvious eye toward higher office has hurt his administration by making it too cautious, they argue. More »

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      John McCain  • vice presidential sweepstakes  • Minnesota  • Tim Pawlenty

    • Counterpunch Too Weak for Strategists

      Washington Post  |  Aug 7, 08 4:11 PM CDT

      Counterpunch Too Weak for Strategists

      (Newser) - After weeks of enduring blistering attacks from John McCain, Barack Obama is launching a counter-attack. His new “Maverick” ad is his sharpest yet, calling McCain out on his similarities to George Bush. But Democratic strategists still don’t think Obama is hitting hard enough, the Washington Post reports. “If somebody attacks you ... you have to counterattack,” one strategist said. “You want to look tough.” More »

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      Barack Obama  • John McCain  • Obama 2008  • negative campaigning  • attack ad

    • Obama's Right to Go Negative

      New Republic  |  Aug 7, 08 2:24 PM CDT

      Obama's Right to Go Negative

      (Newser) - Barack Obama is going negative on John McCain, something he never did in the primary race against Hillary Clinton. But that doesn’t mean he’s abandoning a winning strategy. The current race is worlds apart from his tête-à-tête with Clinton, Noam Scheiber writes in the New Republic . For one, it’s “easier to go negative on an old white guy.” More »

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      Barack Obama  • John McCain  • Election 2008  • Obama 2008  • McCain 2008  • negative campaigning

    • Rove: What McCain Must Do

      Wall Street Journal  |  Aug 7, 08 9:12 AM CDT

      Rove: What McCain Must Do

      (Newser) - Despite the hype around Barack Obama, John McCain is just 1.9% behind in the latest Gallup pole. In other words, he could win this thing, and Karl Rove has some advice for him. McCain is “rightly raising questions about Obama’s fitness to be president,” Rove writes in the Wall Street Journal , but he also must “make a compelling case for electing John McCain.” More »

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      John McCain  • McCain 2008  • Karl Rove  • political strategy

    • Candidates Keen to Quit Bickering

      Washington Post  |  Aug 7, 08 5:45 AM CDT

      Candidates Keen to Quit Bickering

      (Newser) - John McCain and Barack Obama would prefer to steer the White House race out of the gutter and back onto the high road, writes David Broder in the Washington Post reports. In separate interviews, both candidates expressed frustration with the tone and direction of the campaign over the last two months and the tit-for-tat blows. More »

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      Barack Obama  • John McCain  • negative campaigning  • presidential debate  • debate  • campaign issues

    • Obama Takes Campaign to Gas Pumps

      Palm Beach Post  |  Aug 6, 08 4:34 PM CDT

      Obama Takes Campaign to Gas Pumps

      (Newser) - Barack Obama's campaign will run an energy-themed ad on TVs on Florida gas pumps starting today, the Palm Beach Post reports. The commercial highlights alternative-energy research and tax cuts as parts of Obama's plan to "break the grip of foreign oil," while presenting John McCain as more of the status quo.