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September 2008
- NY Post Endorses McCain
  
  New York Post | Sep 8, 08 8:41 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The New York Post “emphatically” endorsed John McCain today, praising the Arizona senator’s “battle-tested courage, unshakeable devotion to principle,” and national security acumen, and dismissing the “tissue-paper-thin resume” of Barack Obama. Despite decades in Washington, McCain “is not of Washington,” the Post argues, something he underscored by picking outsider Sarah Palin as his running mate: “Neither plays well with others.” More »
- Palin to Finally Meet the Press
  
  Chicago Tribune | Sep 8, 08 1:58 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Sarah Palin will sit for her first press interview since accepting the Republican vice presidential nomination, reports the Chicago Tribune . She'll be interviewed by ABC anchor Charlie Gibson in Alaska later this week. The McCain camp has kept Palin from the press so far, calling its coverage of the Alaska governor sexist and intrusive. More »
- Mac Bounces to 3-Point Lead Over Obama
  
  Politico | Sep 7, 08 5:36 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - John McCain is leading Barack Obama by 48% to 45% in the latest Gallup poll, McCain's highest level of support since early May, Politico reports. Both candidates earned an expected convention bounce, but McCain’s boost was more immediate. Obama was ahead 49% to 43% among registered voters before the Republican convention last week. More »
- McCain Takes Up Change Banner; Biden Says Malarkey
  
  Politico | Sep 7, 08 1:01 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Talk shows were once again abuzz this morning, as both presidential campaigns entered the two-month sprint to the White House. A round-up of today’s highlights: Obama revealed to ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that he’d once seriously considered joining the military, and rebutted Palin’s jabs at his community organizing background: “For folks who suddenly have tried to grab the change banner, you know, they've got a very traditional view of what service means.” More »
- Palin Pick Takes Battle to New States
  
  New York Times | Sep 6, 08 5:34 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - John McCain's camp is pushing some states back into play in the presidential election, convinced that Sarah Palin has re-energized GOP voters, the New York Times reports. McCain believes Palin improves his chances in Ohio and Pennsylvania, states Barack Obama is counting on. And with just 8 weeks left, both campaigns have defined an unusually wide swath of state-by-state battles. More »
- Analysts: Mac Win Likely to Hit Defense Firms Harder
  
  MarketWatch | Sep 6, 08 2:10 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The defense industry is generally wary of Democratic wins, but this time around it's a Republican victory that may give military industries—and their investors—a complex, MarketWatch reports. A President Obama would be unlikely to give critics of his foreign policy cred ammunition by slashing defense spending, analysts say, while John McCain has the clout and the Washington know-how to puncture bloated military budgets. More »
- Just How Blue Is Michigan?
  
  Wall Street Journal | Sep 6, 08 11:14 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Michigan has gone blue in four out of the past five presidential elections, but the crucial state is anything but a lock for Barack Obama this year. The Wall Street Journal assesses a slew of factors—the state's highly charged racial politics, John McCain's good standing among GOP moderates and independents, Obama’s absence from the state primary, and his association with the disgraced mayor—and finds that the bellwether state's 17 electoral votes are very much in play. More »
- Palin, McCain Differ on Sex Education
  
  Los Angeles Times | Sep 6, 08 10:15 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Sarah Palin and John McCain differ on sex education, with Palin favoring both contraceptive and abstinence education in schools—while McCain and the GOP platform support teaching abstinence only, the Los Angeles Times observes. “I'm pro-contraception, and I think kids who may not hear about it at home should hear about it in other avenues,” Palin said in 2006, before her teen daughter became pregnant. More »
- The Bromance of Mac & Graham
  
  New Republic | Sep 5, 08 4:50 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - “While most politicians collect allies, McCain collects followers,” Eve Fairbanks writes in the New Republic , and there’s no better example than Sen. Lindsey Graham, McCain’s “sidekick” and foil in the nation's most prominent “bromance.” McCain’s top stump surrogate is no stranger to the costs of McCain’s friendship: non-stop travel and speaking schedules, being the butt of fraternal jibing, and tolerating his idiosyncratic obsessions ... like, er, birdwatching. More »
- Quayle: Palin Furor 'Sounded Familiar'
  
  Los Angeles Times | Sep 5, 08 2:55 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Sarah Palin’s entrance into the election campaign seems like déjà vu to Dan Quayle, who played that part for the Republicans in 1988. Like Palin, he was supposed to connect an old moderate to the party base and win over the Midwest with small-town charm. And like Palin, he got a face-full of negative press. “It sure sounded familiar,” Quayle told the L os Angeles Times . More »
- McCain's Image as Lackluster Speaker Intact
  
  Guardian (UK) | Sep 5, 08 11:25 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Last night was John McCain’s big moment at the Republican National Convention. Oratory hasn’t been his strong suit in the past. How were the reactions to his speech? McCain bored Michael Tomasky at the UK Guardian , who wonders if he was baiting negative reviews to rile up his base: “I now suspect that the speech was intentionally awful.” More »
- Klein: McCain More Valedictory Than Inspiring
  
  Time | Sep 5, 08 9:44 AM CDT