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November 2008
- Politico's Play-by-Play Guide to Game Time Tonight
  
  Politico | Nov 4, 08 2:54 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - At 5 tonight, a wave of exit-polling results will be distributed to media insiders, who'll try manfully to resist sharing anything that might prejudice voters—even though it will kill them. At 6 pm, the results will start rolling in, and Politico gives you a play-by-play guide to what to look for as each state reports. Some highlights: Indiana: Polls close at 6 in the East, 7 in the West. An Obama win in the hotly contested state would give the McCain campaign pause. More »
- Palin Votes, but Mum on Who's Her Candidate
  
  Chicago Tribune | Nov 4, 08 12:42 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Sarah Palin and John McCain have officially cast their ballots, but one of them is being mysteriously coy about its contents. “I am also exercising my right to privacy,” she told reporters outside her Wasilla polling place. “And I don't have to tell anybody who I vote for. Nobody does. And that's really cool about America, also.” More »
- You Said You Wanted (Campaign) Revolution ...
  
  New York Times | Nov 4, 08 5:11 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - Campaign drama has overshadowed the fact that 2008 has permanently changed the way elections are fought in America, the New York Times reports. From now on, supporters will be organized in new ways and funds will be raised differently, due primarily to brave new media worlds. With the help of tools like YouTube that didn't exist in 2004, even methods of attack—and response—have changed dramatically. More »
- Oprah, Obama in Last-Minute Strategy Session
  
  New York Daily News | Nov 4, 08 4:40 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - Talk-show queen Oprah Winfrey participated in a top-level phone conference yesterday with Barack Obama and key black leaders to pull out the stops in the campaign's home stretch, reports the New York Daily News . Rapper Diddy Combs, strategist Donna Brazile and House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn were also in on the call. Obama talked about how important it would be for the world to see his daughters play on the White House lawn, according to a participant. More »
- Obama Wins First Town's Vote
  
  CNN | Nov 4, 08 1:48 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - Barack Obama has won a landslide victory in the first town in America to vote, AP reports. The 21 registered voters of New Hampshire's Dixville Notch hit the polls shortly after the stroke of midnight and chose Obama over John McCain 15 to 6. It is the first time the tiny town has chosen a Democrat since it picked Hubert Humphrey in 1968. More »
- Chasing Comeback, McCain Races Through 7 States
  
  Washington Post | Nov 3, 08 11:58 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - John McCain spent yesterday on a whirlwind tour, hitting seven states with eight rallies as he looked to make a last-minute comeback, the Washington Post reports. “I am an American, and I choose to fight,” he told crowds from Florida to Arizona, starting with a 1am rally in Miami that brought out 15,000 people. “He knows he's coming from behind. He's fighting to the end,” said an aide. More »
- Candidates Make Last Drive on MNF
  
  ESPN | Nov 3, 08 11:18 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - After two years of campaigning, Barack Obama and John McCain made their final pitches to Americans in parallel interviews on Monday Night Football . The Democrat, a Chicago Bears fan, told ESPN that he wants to see college football playoffs, while the GOP nominee said he wants to take action to prevent the use of performance-enhancing drugs. Asked what voters should think of him, McCain said, "He. Could. Go. All. The. Way ... to the White House." 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 »
- 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 »
- 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 »
- 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 »
- Change Has Already Been Delivered—to Campaigning
  
  Wall Street Journal | Nov 3, 08 9:27 AM CST