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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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November 2008
- Bush Absent For a Reason, But He's OK
  
  Reuters | Nov 3, 08 6:04 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - President Bush is lying low on Election Day eve, and even his White House spokeswoman admits his dismal ratings are the cause, Reuters reports. “Everybody would like to be popular,” Dana Perino said today. “We can all remember that back in high school, everyone really wanted to be popular, and some of us just weren’t.” Bush last spoke with John McCain in September, and has not planned events for tomorrow. More »
- 10 Best Viral Election Videos
  
  Politico | Nov 3, 08 5:18 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Viral election videos offer campy calls for change, seamless special effects, and more than a few celebrity cameos. Laughs aside, “over the past decade they’ve also impacted politics—sometimes changing the course of elections and frequently providing a few laughs in an otherwise wonky world,” Jeffrey Ressner writes in picking Politico's top 10 of '08. Yes We Can : Will.i.am’s minimalist all-star Obama tribute "may be the most creative video of any type to emerge this year.” Dear Mr. Obama : An injured Iraq veteran explains why war is a good thing. More »
- Obama's Grandmother Loses Battle With Cancer
  
  Chicago Tribune | Nov 3, 08 3:52 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - On the eve of Election Day, Barack Obama's maternal grandmother died today in Honolulu after a long struggle with cancer. Madelyn Dunham, who helped raise Obama, had been in hospice care, the Chicago Tribune reports. The senator and his sister Maya Soetoro-Ng released a statement calling their 86-year-old grandmother "the cornerstone of our family, and a woman of extraordinary accomplishment, strength, and humility." More »
- Campaigns Make Florida Election-Eve Battleground
  
  Miami Herald | Nov 3, 08 3:26 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Both presidential candidates were on the trail today in Florida, trading jabs from opposite ends of the state, the Miami Herald reports. Barack Obama spoke about the economy in Jacksonville, in the north, the same city where John McCain said the “fundamentals of the economy are strong.” McCain dismissed his poor poll numbers in Tampa, saying, “we never give up, we never quit.” More »
- Canadian DJ Chalks Palin Prank Up to Perseverance
  
  ABC News | Nov 3, 08 2:49 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - The French-Canadian radio host who fooled Sarah Palin into thinking he was French president Nicolas Sarkozy chalks up his coup to simple hard work. “Call it luck, call it perseverance, call it what you want,” Marc-Antoine Audette tells ABC about Saturday’s 7-minute interview. He says his staff spent 4 days working the phones before eventually scoring the exclusive. More »
- Onion Preps Timely Election Coverage—No, Really
  
  Associated Press | Nov 3, 08 2:39 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - The Onion , bucking a 20-year trend, plans to cover tomorrow's election results in something resembling real time, the AP reports. The "satirical newspaper of record" and its website have prepared articles and videos in advance, requiring long hours unfamiliar to its writers. “It has become sort of necessary for us to really do a little more coverage than we normally would,” says editor Joe Randazzo. More »
- Is She the Last Culture Warrior?
  
  Washington Post | Nov 3, 08 12:28 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Although Sarah Palin says she would be a fresh face in Washington, she really represents the end of a long line of Republican culture warriors, writes Peter Beinart in the Washington Post . "She's depicting the campaign as a struggle between the culturally familiar and the culturally threatening, the culturally traditional and the culturally exotic," but her argument falls flat, and history can explain why. More »
- Do Your Civic Duty and Get a Free Sex Toy
  
  MSNBC | Nov 3, 08 11:50 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - Joining a host of firms rewarding US voters, a sex-toy chain is giving out self-pleasuring devices to customers who have stopped at the polls, MSNBC reports. Men get “Maverick” sleeves: “He’s always there to lend a hand, he works for every man, and he bucks the status quo.” Women can take home “Silver Bullet” vibrators, “a great stress-reliever during these troubled economic times!” More »
- Election's Media Winners, Losers
  
  Los Angeles Times | Nov 3, 08 11:23 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - This election has been all about image—not just for the candidates, but for media personalities who have jumped into the fray. Scott Collins chooses its biggest success stories and failures in the Los Angeles Times : Rachel Maddow, MSNBC's new commentator, is brainy, funny, and capable. John King, CNN’s "Magic Map" guy, is a demographics whiz. Charlie Gibson of ABC took a beating over a “featherweight” Democratic debate. More »
- Obama, McCain Take Fight to Pages of Journal
  
  Wall Street Journal | Nov 3, 08 11:14 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - Barack Obama and John McCain are appearing together today on one battleground—the opinion pages of the conservative Wall Street Journal . Obama sticks almost exclusively with economics, mentioning the paper’s own reservations with McCain’s housing rescue plan. He’s also quick to remind readers in upper tax brackets they’ll still pay “capital gains and dividend taxes one-third lower than they were under President Reagan.” More »
- At 11th Hour, Obama Keeps His Poker Face
  
  New York Times | Nov 3, 08 10:43 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - Though well aware of the enormous weight that might be about to descend on him, Barack Obama is keeping it cool, Jeff Zeleny writes in the New York Times . As the campaign enters its final frantic hours, the Democrat is talking basketball and reading about Afghanistan, hitting the gym at 6 am and sending emails at 1 am. More »
- Change Has Already Been Delivered—to Campaigning
  
  Wall Street Journal | Nov 3, 08 9:27 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - We can't be sure what kind of change the next president will bring, but we do know that presidential campaigns themselves will never be the same, writes Gerald F. Seib in the Wall Street Journal . Among this year’s innovations: The campaigns have redrawn the political map, making previously locked states competitive, like Virginia, and placing increasing emphasis on the Mountain West. More »
- Hints at Winner May Come Early Tomorrow Night
  
  Reuters | Nov 3, 08 8:36 AM CST