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Election 2008

Competition is hot for the highest office in the land. Will it be Barack Obama or John McCain? Just so long as it isn't George...

The most diverse crowd of presidential hopefuls ever hit the campaign trail for 2008. On the left, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton geared up for a close race; John Edwards rounded out the top three on the Democratic side, with Al Gore playing the role of potential spoiler. Months later, the charismatic-but-inexperienced junior senator emerged as the delegate winner. Meanwhile, on the right, the Reaganites held out hope for a definitive Fred Thompson run. Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani became early favorites, only to bow out, with the others, in favor of John McCain.

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June 2008
- Pa. Gov's Style Will Keep Him Off National Ticket
  
  New Republic | Jun 10, 08 7:20 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Ed Rendell's incredible bluntness and honesty are worth celebrating, but those same qualities make the Pennsylvania governor unacceptable as a Democratic vice presidential candidate, Buzz Bissinger writes in the New Republic. Pairing him with Barack Obama might be “a fascinating marriage of the idealist and the schmoozing fixer,” but Rendell’s style is way beyond the pale of national politics. More »
- Paul Plans His Own Convention
  
  Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | Jun 10, 08 5:35 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - John McCain won’t be the only GOP candidate throwing himself a party in Minnesota the first week of September—libertarian-leaning Ron Paul will host a mini-convention of his own in Minneapolis. Paul's gathering will take place on the second day of the Republican convention, just a few exits down I-94. He hopes his 11,000-strong meeting will “send a message” to the GOP, a rep told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review . More »
- Democrats Balk at Obama's Donation Ban
  
  Politico | Jun 10, 08 3:27 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Barack Obama won't accept contributions from lobbyists and PACs, but the rest of his party is unlikely to follow suit, reports Politico. Democratic lobbyists and fundraisers are outraged that the donations they secure are automatically considered suspect, while Senate and House candidates simply need the cash to compete. "You really have to look under every rock," a House aide says of fundraising. More »
- Left Has Won (Whoever Wins)
  
  Salon | Jun 10, 08 2:55 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - After 4 decades, the conservative revolution launched by the likes of Goldwater and Buckley is not only washed up, Michael Lind writes in Salon, it failed "completely, undeniably and irreversibly." The structure of 20th-century American liberalism is intact, if battered, he writes, and liberals should stop worrying so much. No matter who wins the election, “prospects for the moderate, reformist center left” are better now than in half a century. More »
- McCain Pays Price of Soaring Gas
  
  Politico | Jun 10, 08 2:13 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The party in power always suffers during an election year in which the economy is poor, and high gas prices are often the biggest barb. John McCain is suffering the most from high prices at the pump, a Politico analysis of Gallup polls show, with voters putting him behind the GOP at large on the question of who will give “greater priority” to energy. More »
- The Most Overrated VP Traits
  
  Time | Jun 10, 08 1:25 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Fed up with a focus on local ties and attractiveness in vice presidential selection coverage, Mark Halperin of Time lists the qualifications most under- and -overvalued by the media. Among other things, don't overlook: A candidate ready to be president from Day One. A candidate trusted and liked by the nominee. A candidate trusted and liked by the nominee's wife. More »
- New Attack Vid: 'Hotties Only Hook Up With Dems'
  
  Huffington Post | Jun 10, 08 1:17 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Republicans can't get no satisfaction—at least according to several anti-McCain videos set to air on YouTube by pro-Dem marketing group Truth Through Action. The premier video features a steamy bedroom romp that turns suddenly icy when a hot bar date discovers an autographed McCain photo in a nightstand. As if. More »
- Johnny McCain No Goode for Chuck Berry
  
  Reuters | Jun 10, 08 8:27 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Chuck Berry hopes Barack Obama will rock his way to victory in November—even though it's John McCain who used Berry's classic Johnny B. Goode as a theme song in the early days of the campaign. The McCain camp has since switched to Abba's Take a Chance On Me. Berry, whose first new album in 30 years is in the works, says Obama's nomination is a great moment for America. More »
- Hillary's Next Challenge: Paying Bills
  
  New York Times | Jun 10, 08 7:35 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Hillary Clinton's White House bid made history—by ending with what is believed to be the largest presidential campaign debt ever. The New York senator had approximately $9.5 million in unpaid bills at the end of April, not to mention $11.4 of her own money that she lent the campaign. The Clinton campaign is still adding up the final tally, but her options for retiring her debt are limited. More »
- What Hyde Park Tells Us About Obama
  
  Weekly Standard | Jun 9, 08 7:37 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - "It is the most racially integrated neighborhood in the nation's most racially segregated city," Andrew Ferguson writes in the Weekly Standard of the area in south Chicago Barack Obama calls home. It's a college town, a lefty enclave where the moneyed mix with boho bookworms, and "NPR announcer" types walk the streets wearing wire rims and backpacks. But Hyde Park isn't an ordinary college town, it's an unusually isolated one—an island in the middle of a slum. More »
- Democrats Set Sights on Va.
  
  Washington Post | Jun 9, 08 5:29 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Barack Obama staffers have quietly been working Virginia, a red state Democrats hope to flip, for at least the past month, the Washington Post reports. Their focus is voter registration, with Tim Kaine's strategy in his successful 2005 gubernatorial campaign as a model. More »
- General Election Starts Coming Into Focus
  
  Time | Jun 9, 08 2:20 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Barack Obama launched a 2-week economic tour today, prompting dueling press releases, Time reports. Obama kicked off the one-on-one stage of the election by vowing to “restore fairness and balance to our economy,” and John McCain's campaign countered by saying the Democratic nominee "doesn’t understand the American economy. " More »
- YouTube Vid 'Brutal' to McCain
  
  The Jed Report | Jun 9, 08 12:52 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A YouTube video assembled by a Ron Paul supporter is a “devastating” blast at the John McCain campaign, the Jed Report blog contends. The piece focuses on Iraq, playing and re-playing the Republican's suggestion that Baghdad has neighborhoods safe enough for generals to walk around unprotected—and juxtaposing them with stunned rebuttals from Wolf Blitzer and Pat Buchanan. More »
- High Gas Prices Are Good for Detroit
  
  Wall Street Journal | Jun 9, 08 12:25 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Sky-high gas prices are finally pushing top US auto-makers to turn out fuel-efficient vehicles, and both Detroit and Washington should keep the pedal down to make a permanent change in how, and what, Americans drive, the US top car salesman tells the Wall Street Journal . "You have to tell the American people the truth," the CEO of AutoNation says. "Energy costs will be higher." More »
- Quietly, McCain Makes Overtures to Evangelicals
  
  New York Times | Jun 9, 08 7:32 AM CDT