Slate Nov 1, 08 10:08 AM CDT
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Reporters are already writing up advance analyses of how each of the two presidential candidates achieved victory next Tuesday—to be ready for either outcome. Slate has a little fun imagining some of the other scenarios that might have played out: Hillary Clinton claimed a historic win after John McCain's oft-used phrase, "lipstick on a pig," insulted voters—and his VP pick, a black police lieutenant form small-town Maryland, backfired on him.
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Charity employees are more likely to donate money to the left side of the aisle, study finds
Chronicle of Philanthropy Oct 31, 08 8:00 PM CDT
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People in the charitable world lean heavily Democrat and love Barack Obama, but try to keep their affiliation low-key to avoid insulting the other side, the Chronicle of Philanthropy reports. A new study shows that 88% of foundation worker donations went to Dems, enriching Obama's effort by $399,000 and John McCain's by $32,000. “There’s an overwhelmingly uniform personal ideology among this group,” said a director at the group doing the study.
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Obama gets Clintons, Gore; McCain counters with Schwarzenegger, Giuliani
New York Times Oct 31, 08 5:35 PM CDT
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In the final days of the presidential campaign, the candidates are ramping up their schedules and bringing in their parties’ big names to motivate voters, the New York Times reports. John McCain, in addition to sending running mate Sarah Palin on a grueling two-day sprint across the country, has enlisted the help of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Rudolph Giuliani.
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Dem's triumph in strip set for next week; some papers dismayed
Washington Post Oct 31, 08 3:36 PM CDT
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Cartoonist Garry Trudeau has put his newspaper clients in to a bit of a pickle, the Washington Post reports. In a bid to stay current, Wednesday’s installment of "Doonesbury"—written a week in advance—will show characters reacting to a Barack Obama victory. The choice is “a rational risk assessment,” Trudeau said. Replacements are being made available to papers who’d rather not chance it.
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President's unpopularity leaves him on the sidelines in final days
The Hill Oct 31, 08 2:50 PM CDT
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There’s just one Bush out on the campaign in this final weekend before the election, and her name ain’t George: First lady Laura Bush, still popular among Republicans, is stumping around the country for GOP candidates, who want big-name help but not attachment to the president’s unpopularity, the Hill reports. But the president hasn’t just been watching from the sidelines.
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OPINION
'Tinny and trivial' attacks are too small, and in any case too late, in momentous election
Boston Globe Oct 31, 08 2:13 PM CDT
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Any day now, John McCain will mock John Kerry for flip-flopping. Or maybe go with George H.W.’s “Read my lips, no new taxes,” pledge, even Eisenhower’s “I shall go to Korea.” What he won’t do is offer anything new, because all year he’s “seemed intent on fighting the last war, or rather, waging the last campaign,” Scot Lehigh writes in the Boston Globe .
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Undecideds waiting for candidates to provide tell-tale slip-up
Los Angeles Times Oct 31, 08 1:21 PM CDT
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Undecided voters want one thing from John McCain and Barack Obama: a reason to vote for one of them—or not. “I’m waiting for one of them to shoot himself in the leg,” one torn Floridian tells the LA Times. "I just don't trust politicians," says an Ohio auto worker. The 11th-hour deciders last made a difference in 1960, but they could prove vital once again.
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'I devoutly hope' she's never tested, ex-State chief Eagleburger says
Huffington Post Oct 31, 08 1:05 PM CDT
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Lawrence Eagleburger, one of five former secretaries of state whose endorsement John McCain often touts, sharply criticized Sarah Palin yesterday, saying she is not ready to handle the presidency if needed and would at best be an “adequate” commander in chief, the Huffington Post reports. Asked if Palin would be ready to assume the top spot, Eagleburger replied, “Of course not.”
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OPINION
'Hold on for dear life,' because history's making a liberal turn
Wall Street Journal Oct 31, 08 11:38 AM CDT
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Peggy Noonan gives it up for Barack Obama today. “He has within him the possibility to change the direction and tone of American foreign policy, which need changing,” she writes, and his election will “serve as a practical rebuke to the past five years, which needs rebuking.” He showed good judgment during the campaign, she allows. "He showed grace when he didn't have to."
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Exec won't deny rumor that Obama will be on, too
Associated Press Oct 31, 08 11:29 AM CDT
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John McCain will take a page from Sarah Palin's book and appear on Saturday Night Live tomorrow, aides tell the AP. It will be his first appearance on the show since May. Meanwhile, rumors continue to fly that Barack Obama will stop, too, but SNL reps aren't confirming or denying anything, the Los Angeles Times reports.
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Most don't pass the smell test, and some are just plain nuts
Politico Oct 31, 08 11:19 AM CDT
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It’s been a year for political rumors and paranoia. In Politico, Ben Smith rounds up some of the salacious tidbits readers keep haranguing the press to cover. Obama’s not a citizen. At first, this rumor focused on having a parent born elsewhere, then moved on to suggesting his birth certificate was hidden or forged. John McCain used a particularly misogynist slur against his wife in 1992. No reporters have found evidence to replicate this story, reported by a Democratic operative.
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McCain's guest nowhere to be found during first Ohio rally
MSNBC Oct 31, 08 11:10 AM CDT
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The image of John McCain looking for a nowhere-to-be-found Joe the Plumber has surfaced on YouTube and is being forwarded by gleeful Democrats, notes MSNBC's First Read blog. “Joe’s with us here," McCain said at an Ohio rally yesterday. "Joe, where are you?," he asked, looking around. "Where is Joe? Joe, I thought you were here today."
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