ANALYSIS
Dem's strengths expose key gaps in armor of Republican's rumored short-listers
Politico Aug 27, 08 11:55 AM CDT
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Joe Biden presents a problem for John McCain, Jeanne Cummings notes on Politico. “McCain knows Biden well," says one Republican insider. "He knows how good he is as a knife fighter." Stacked up against Biden, all of the rumored GOP short-listers reveal potentially fatal flaws: Mitt Romney: Considering Biden's middle-class roots, the multimillionaire former governor could undermine McCain's claims of Obama elitism.
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OPINION
Conservatives 'freaked out' by rabid following
New Republic Aug 27, 08 11:39 AM CDT
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Conservative griping about Barack Obama’s supposed cult of personality is both misplaced and hypocritical, Jonathan Chait writes in the New Republic . Pundits’ case against the Democrat relies on willful misinterpretation of his slogans. “Did you know that McCain’s slogan, ‘Country first,’ could be translated via the Charles Krauthammer method into ‘Country last’? Why does John McCain hate America?” jokes Chait.
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Hardcore base won't support Obama
Washington Post Aug 27, 08 10:50 AM CDT
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Many Hillary Clinton supporters still won't vote for Obama despite her calls for unity last night at the Democratic Convention, the Washington Post reports. "Even if she can move on easily, that's not as easy for everybody else," said one Clinton supporter. Dissatisfied loyalists set up a Clinton campaign museum, led a parade, and lit thousands of candles in a park.
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McCain's potential running mate gets back in the spotlight
Washington Post Aug 27, 08 3:57 AM CDT
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Behaving more and more like John MCain's still-unnamed running mate, Mitt Romney yesterday tore into Joe Biden, reports the Washington Post . “His record being wrong on foreign policy is as long as his years in foreign policy,” zinged Romney. When asked if he was ready to debate Biden, Romney called the senator an "impenetrable thicket of words. I don't know if anyone is ready to debate him."
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Politico Aug 26, 08 8:08 PM CDT
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John McCain continued his effort today to paint Barack Obama’s as a soft, cocky cosmopolitan who would diminish the nation's strength, Politico reports. Before a crowd of veterans, McCain attacked Obama’s foreign policy credibility. "If he really thinks that, by liberating Iraq from a dangerous tyrant, America somehow set a bad example that invited Russia to invade a small, peaceful and democratic nation, then he should state it outright—because that is a debate I welcome.”
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ANALYSIS
Critics, increasing fire, could see former
Mass. governor as
VP front-runner
Politico Aug 26, 08 4:49 PM CDT
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From the way Democrats are acting, they might believe Mitt Romney is the front-runner to become John McCain’s running mate, Alexander Burns writes in Politico. Denver is abuzz with attacks on the former Massachusetts governor: Barack Obama’s campaign manager called Romney a “job-killing machine,” and Deval Patrick, who has Romney’s old job, pointed out the Republican’s neglect of that position.
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'Hillary's Right,' new ad proclaims
USA Today Aug 26, 08 12:54 PM CDT
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John McCain has resurrected Hillary Clinton’s “3am” attack ad, and will be running a modified version in several battleground states, USA Today reports. The Republican's ad reruns a portion of Clinton’s, along with clips of Clinton attacking Obama’s experience, and ends with the tag, “Hillary’s right.” The move continues McCain’s recent tactic of wooing Clinton voters by accentuating the Democrats’ primary differences.
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Analysis
McCain probably has enough juice left in tank
Wall Street Journal Aug 26, 08 10:36 AM CDT
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At 72, John McCain would be the oldest person elected president, but should that matter to voters? Probably not, according to geriatrics experts consulted by the Wall Street Journal. “Aging has such a small impact on how we function that it is of minimal importance,” says one specialist. Though brain functions deteriorate with age, that decline is offset by experience, and older brains do unconscious work-arounds to compensate for slower retrieval speed.
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Republicans aim to upstage rival; Dems plan to respond in kind
New York Times Aug 26, 08 5:53 AM CDT
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The days of the parties giving each other a breather during convention week are long gone, the New York Times reports. As Democrats reveled in Denver yesterday, the Republicans began popping balloons--launching attack ads, holding press conferences underscoring the Clinton-Obama divide, and trotting their candidate out on the Tonight Show. The Dems, for their part, plan to be just as aggressive during the Republican National Convention.
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McCain's quips aimed at diffusing age, wealth concerns
Politico Aug 26, 08 2:51 AM CDT
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John McCain yesterday made what has become a mandatory stop on the campaign trail: The Tonight Show . He used the appearance to defuse jokes about his age in advance of his 72d birthday this week and attempt to do some damage control over his recent confusion about how many homes he owns. Leno quipped in his monologue that "thousands" of homes—"most of them belonging to John McCain"—were ruined by tropical storm Fay, reports Politico.
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While attention shifts to Dems, celebrities rally for McCain
Politico Aug 25, 08 4:44 PM CDT
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John McCain shunned tradition today by grabbing media attention during his opponent's convention kick-off, Politico reports. At a high school in Phoenix, McCain trotted out supporter and reggaeton star Daddy Yankee. McCain "has been a fighter for the Hispanic community… a fighter for immigration," Daddy Yankee told students at the 75% Latino school.
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Gets political during tour video montages
New York Times Aug 25, 08 11:50 AM CDT
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Is Madonna using her Sticky & Sweet world tour to strike back at John McCain’s celebrity ad? During a remix of “Like a Prayer,” a screen flashes images of destruction followed by shots of Hitler, Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe, and then McCain, reports the New York Times . Barack Obama makes a cameo in another montage including images of Gandhi, John Lennon, and Al Gore.
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