New York Daily News Oct 23, 08 2:00 PM CDT
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Elizabeth Hasselbeck has been invited to bring her spunky conservatism to the stump with Sarah Palin, the New York Daily News reports. Hasselbeck will take off for Florida this weekend to join the GOP veep pick on a tour around the state. “I will be flying there to travel with her,” Hasselbeck said. “That's an honor, I'm excited to do it, and I'll have some stories I'm sure on Monday.”
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Missed calls, poor predictions
Salon Oct 23, 08 1:16 PM CDT
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Pundits make mistakes. And Salon has tallied the biggest whoppers of the presidential campaign: The “Palin bounce”—It fizzled and the Alaska governor has the highest negative approval ratings of a VP candidate in history. “Sergeant” Schmidt will right the USS McCain—Steve Schmidt’s strategy of daily news-cycle ready attacks sacrificed long-term ideological coherency, and made voters see McCain as overly negative.
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OPINION
Obama is winning because he's mature
Time Oct 23, 08 12:29 PM CDT
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Barack Obama is an adult. That, writes Joe Klein in Time , is why he's winning—"the steadiness of his temperament and the judicious quality of his decision-making." In contrast, John McCain seems to lurch wildly, making a "peremptory selection" of a running mate and suspending his campaign for no clear substantive reason. “Obama seems a grown-up, in a nation that badly needs some adult supervision.”
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OPINION
Elites of both parties might hate her, but Palin's the people's pick.
Wall Street Journal Oct 23, 08 9:43 AM CDT
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Take a long hard look at our political elite, suggests Daniel Henninger in the Wall Street Journal , and ask yourself: Are these guys really out of Sarah Palin’s league? “Behold the shabby frat house that says it's above her pay grade.” Given a choice between members of the 12%-approval-rating Congress and Palin, Henninger chooses Palin.
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ANALYSIS
Candidates have complicated ideas on American power
New York Times Oct 23, 08 9:13 AM CDT
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For the presidential candidates, divergent experiences in Asia—John McCain's time in a Vietnam prison, Barack Obama's childhood years in Indonesia—gave rise to opposing views of American power. Yet the nominees' foreign policy stances have often blurred during the campaign, with Obama appearing more hawkish and McCain more diplomatic, according to the New York Times .
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Associated Press Oct 22, 08 6:20 PM CDT
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Not all the polls are going in Barack Obama's favor. An AP-GfK survey says John McCain has closed the gap with Obama after the last debate by gaining voters among whites and those earning less than $50,000. The poll has the race at 44%-43% in favor of Obama, a statistical tie indicating that the "Joe the plumber" analogy resonated. The same poll placed Obama 7 points ahead of McCain three weeks ago, the AP reports.
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'Core point' correct that president will be tested no matter who wins
Chicago Tribune Oct 22, 08 4:35 PM CDT
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Barack Obama sought to blunt criticism of Joe Biden today, saying that though his running mate “engages in rhetorical flourishes,” he was right in saying “the next administration is going to be tested, regardless of who it is,” reports the Chicago Tribune . Critics in the McCain campaign had used Biden’s prediction of imminent international crises to underscore Obama’s foreign-policy inexperience.
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ANALYSIS
Drawing negative attention is gamble, but team thinks it can paint broader picture
Newsweek Oct 22, 08 3:45 PM CDT
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You wouldn’t expect a political campaign to circulate its opponent’s attack on its candidate—yet that’s exactly what Barack Obama’s media-relations team is doing, observes Andrew Romano for Newsweek . An email linking to stories on John McCain’s latest jabs is part of the “rapid response” squad’s attempt to paint the Republican as “flailing” about and avoiding the real issues.
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Paris Hilton releasing another 'campaign' video
Us Magazine Oct 22, 08 12:37 PM CDT
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With less than two weeks left, Paris Hilton is still in the race. On Sunday, she'll release a music video as part of her campaign for "fake" president, Us Magazine reports. The reality queen first got involved after John McCain compared Barack Obama to her—and he didn't mean it as a compliment. Since then, she's made two political spoofs. And if she wins? "I'd get jobs for people so we can get the economy back on track," she says.
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Wis. appeal decries McCain campaign as 'sleazy,' 'dishonorable'
Talking Points Memo Oct 22, 08 10:54 AM CDT
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Barack Obama has robotic telemarketers of his own, and he’s using them to complain about John McCain’s robotic telemarketers. Obama will begin blanketing Wisconsin today with a recorded call from “Jeri Watermolen,” who identifies herself as a Green Bay native who once backed McCain, but has flipped to Obama because McCain’s “running a dishonorable campaign,” Talking Points Memo reports.
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Though charges are dropped, men are still held, may be retried
Los Angeles Times Oct 22, 08 10:24 AM CDT
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The war crimes tribunal at Guantanamo Bay has dropped charges against five suspects that the Pentagon has called al-Qaeda operatives, reports the Los Angeles Times . All of the men were fingered by Abu Zubaydah, a Saudi-born militant whom the Bush administration concedes was waterboarded. The charges were dismissed after one of the case's prosecutors stepped down, citing political intrusion and ethical shortcomings at the court.
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RNC defends $150k clothes, makeup budget for Palins
Politico Oct 22, 08 9:08 AM CDT
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Sarah Palin apparently isn't kidding when she stresses the importance of lipstick to a hockey mom: the RNC spent $5000 on hair and makeup en route to racking up a $150,000 bill for clothing and accessories for Palin and her family since John McCain picked her as his runningmate. The $75,000 dropped at Neiman Marcus, among other spending sprees, have raised legal issues, but the RNC defends its