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New York Daily News
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Oct 18, 08 5:28 PM CDT
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Colin Powell will make his presidential preference clear on Meet the Press tomorrow, the New York Daily News reports, detailing some of the reasons the former secretary of state is expected to defect from his party's candidate. "McCain has too many neocons working for him," says one Republican close to Powell. The general is also piqued that McCain floated a disingenuous rumor that he was a top VP contender.
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Chicago Sun-Times
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Oct 18, 08 4:16 PM CDT
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The McCain campaign and the New York Times are at it again after the paper published a partly unflattering profile of Cindy McCain today, Lynn Sweet reports for the Chicago Sun-Times . Mrs. McCain’s lawyer fired off an angry letter at the Times , asking why it drudged up old stories on Cindy's drug use and charitable life. "You have not tried to find Barack Obama's drug dealer that he wrote about in his book," he wrote. “There is a terrific lack of balance here."
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Time
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Oct 18, 08 1:48 PM CDT
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John McCain has been busily exploiting and distorting Barack Obama’s passing relationship with '60s radical Bill Ayers, but McCain himself had a much closer relationship with another '60s radical, David Ifshin, writes Joe Klein of Time . Ifshin was an anti-Vietnam radical whom many people accused of treason after he flew to Hanoi and denounced US pilots as “war criminals.”
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Associated Press
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Oct 18, 08 12:59 PM CDT
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GOP Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, facing a tough re-election fight, urged John McCain yesterday to stop making automated calls into her state that link Democratic nominee Barack Obama to one-time Weather Underground leader Bill Ayers. "These kind of tactics have no place in Maine politics," said Collins spokesman Kevin Kelley. "Sen. Collins urges the McCain campaign to stop these calls immediately."
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New York Times
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Oct 18, 08 11:17 AM CDT
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Cindy McCain is giving her all to get her husband into the White House despite the tough time the capital has given her in the past, the New York Times reports. When she moved there early in her marriage, the young political wife found herself ostracized by cliquey congressional wives outraged that McCain had dumped the popular Carol McCain for a younger, richer woman.
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New York Times
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Oct 18, 08 7:00 AM CDT
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Barack Obama is outspending John McCain 4-to-1 on advertising nationwide and is on course to break George Bush's 2004 spending record within days, reports the New York Times . Obama has stepped up his spending since the start of October and is blitzing network TV, cable TV, and even video games with campaign ads, both negative and positive.
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National Journal
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Oct 17, 08 5:07 PM CDT
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Vicki Iseman lashed out at the New York Times and a former John McCain adviser for the February story that implied an affair occurred between her and the Republican candidate, the National Journal reports. “I did not have a sexual relationship with Sen. McCain,” Iseman says. In fact, the lobbyist amplifies, “I have never even been alone with Sen. McCain.”
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Union Leader (NH)
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Oct 17, 08 4:50 PM CDT
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If John McCain takes the White House and wins New Hampshire, Meghan McCain says she'll get a tattoo of the state’s motto, the Union Leader reports. "New Hampshire is so important to me and my family," the younger McCain told supporters in the state where her dad turned his presidential prospects around. So important that she's having her wrist measured for some “Live Free or Die” body art.
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Chicago Tribune
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Oct 17, 08 4:20 PM CDT
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In its first-ever endorsement of a Democrat in a US presidential election, the Chicago Tribune touts Barack Obama as the candidate “to lead us through a perilous time and restore in us a common sense of national purpose.” It cites its backing of independents against Republicans as precedent, decisions similarly “driven by outrage at inept and corrupt business and political leaders.”
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News-Record (Greensboro, NC)
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Oct 17, 08 2:40 PM CDT
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The fiery rhetoric at a Republican rally turned physical yesterday when one supporter kicked a journalist in the leg, the News & Record reports. Joe Killian, who works for the paper, was covering a clash between supporters of Barack Obama and John McCain after a Sarah Palin rally in North Carolina when one man confronted him for “chuckling” at the skirmish. “Oh, you think that’s funny?” he said.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
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Oct 17, 08 1:42 PM CDT
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The Supreme Court ruled today that Ohio does not have to verify hundreds of thousands of new voter registrations, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports. The court did not assess the Ohio Republic Party’s claim that registration needs cross-checks to prevent fraud, but rather ruled that the party did not have the standing to challenge Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner on the matter.
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