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Politico
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Aug 21, 08 8:58 AM CDT
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Calling lobbyists “the symptom of a disease,” John McCain railed against earmarking and pork-barrel spending yesterday, telling Politico that members of his administration would be barred from lobbying after life at the White House. Some of McCain’s top campaign aides are former lobbyists, and the senator has already pledged that none of his current staff will return to the influence game.
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Wall Street Journal
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Aug 20, 08 7:10 PM CDT
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Another poll, another batch of bad news for Barack Obama. A new NBC/ Wall Street Journal survey says John McCain has cut Obama's lead by half in the last month and now trails only 45% to 42%. That slim margin makes the race a statistical dead heat. A flurry of other major polls out today reached the same conclusion, and one, from Reuters/Zogby, put McCain ahead by 5 points.
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Travel Leisure
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Aug 20, 08 4:40 PM CDT
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Following the flurry of political press linked to hotel heiress and partier-in-chief Paris Hilton, campaign accommodation now requires serious vetting. Travel + Leisure plays candidate concierge, offering lodging suggestions for the presidential hopefuls: Red Rock Resort, Las Vegas: For John McCain, red-friendly name and removed from the sinful Strip. For Barack Obama: "blue" celeb George Clooney runs the hotel’s Cherry Nightclub.
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Washington Post
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Aug 20, 08 1:35 PM CDT
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Discussion of whether John McCain or Barack Obama "won" Saturday’s Saddleback inquisition misses the point, Kathleen Parker writes in the Washington Post . When the presidential candidates are publicly interrogated on their beliefs by a minister, even one as exemplary as Rick Warren, the only winner is the minister—and the biggest loser is America.
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Associated Press
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Aug 20, 08 11:11 AM CDT
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Joe Lieberman will speak at the Republican National Convention after all, a party official tells the AP. The former Democratic VP candidate who's become one of John McCain's most avid supporters (and is reputed to be the person he'd really like to have as his own VP) will deliver a speech to the GOP faithful in St. Paul, Minn.
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New York Times
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Aug 20, 08 9:52 AM CDT
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Barack Obama has launched a wave of hard-hitting ads attacking John McCain ads in key states, the New York Times reports. The ads, reflecting a new get-tough Obama, lambaste McCain for being out of touch with Americans' economic struggles. Some have criticized the ads for misleading voters, but Democratic strategists say it's time for Obama to strike back after relentless attacks from McCain.
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Reuters
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Aug 20, 08 8:35 AM CDT
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John McCain has erased Barack Obama’s 7-point July advantage to take a 46%-41% lead in the latest Reuters/Zogby poll, Reuters reports. McCain has turned around a perceived weakness on economy to now be favored by a 9% margin on the economy. The poll was taken Thursday through Saturday, as Obama was finishing a weeklong Hawaiian vacation that ceded the political stage to McCain.
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Los Angeles Times
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Aug 20, 08 3:56 AM CDT
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The race for the White House is a statistical dead heat, indicating that weeks of attack ads from the McCain camp may be working, the Los Angeles Times reports. A Times /Bloomberg poll found Barack Obama holding a 45% lead to John McCain's 43%, which falls within the poll’s margin of error. Obama led by 12 points in the same poll in June. Obama's favorabilty rating has dropped from 59% to 48% since the same poll in June.
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Newsweek
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Aug 19, 08 5:05 PM CDT
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Never mind merely unflattering attacks; Jonathan Alter addresses the issue of outright falsehoods, as measured by an impartial fact-checking organization, in the two presidential campaigns, and finds the McCain camp has issued many more. The "smear gap" belies John McCain's vision of himself as an honor-first kind of guy, he writes in Newsweek, and contradicts McCain’s own message of “America first.”
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Washington Post
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Aug 19, 08 3:30 PM CDT
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Appearances by the presidential contenders at a veterans convention highlight not only substantive differences on the Iraq war, Dan Balz observes in the Washington Post , but a growing undertone of personal enmity. After McCain yesterday questioned Obama’s judgment on the troop surge as politically motivated, Obama’s “indignation was evident as he denounced the 'political attacks’ leveled by McCain” today, Balz notes.
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New York Times
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Aug 19, 08 12:34 PM CDT
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John McCain has transformed from a maverick politician with bold ideas for America to a conventional campaigner so desperate for airtime his main tactic is putting down Barack Obama, David Brooks writes in the New York Times . And now that McCain has abandoned his rebellious, post-partisan style, the "inescapable fact is: It is working."
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NPR
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Aug 19, 08 10:04 AM CDT