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August 2008
- Obama Calls for $1,000 Rebates to Pay Energy Bills
  
  Politico | Aug 1, 08 2:00 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Barack Obama unvield an "emergency" plan for the economy today that includes $1,000 rebates for families or $500 for individuals to defray rising energy costs, Politico reports. The money would come in part from "windfall profits from Big Oil," the campaign says. Obama would pump another $50 billion into state governments and the national infrastructure to repair roads, bridges, and schools. More »
- McCain Policies Oddly Short on Specifics
  
  Politico | Aug 1, 08 12:07 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - John McCain’s policy cupboards are unusually bare for a presidential candidate, while his rival’s are unusually well stocked, Politico reports. McCain, for example, describes Social Security as "an absolute disgrace" but offers scant details for reforming it. "He has not offered very much in specifics that I have seen," said a budget analyst at the conservative Heritage Foundation. More »
- Perennial Swing State Ohio Looks Blue
  
  Economist | Aug 1, 08 11:14 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Ohio is the ultimate swing state: Since 1960 no president has been elected without winning its electoral votes, and in 2004, by the narrowest of margins, it delivered George W. Bush a second term. But this time around, Democrats are confident of their chances, the Economist reports. The state party has been rejuvenated after a long spell in the political wilderness. More »
- McCain Ad Angers Hollywood
  
  Los Angeles Times | Aug 1, 08 10:05 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Tinseltown is ticked over John McCain’s recent ad likening Barack Obama to Britney Spears—and to Paris Hilton, whose parents have donated the maximum to the senator's campaign. The problem isn't just looking ungrateful, reports the LA Times, but the fine distinction between a mere “celebrity” and a "rock star" like Obama. More »
- Let's Keep Britney, OJ Out of Campaign
  
  New York Times | Aug 1, 08 5:04 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - John McCain's lurch into negative campaigning is beginning to echo loaded racial issues of the past, according to the New York Times editorial board. The "celebrity" attack ad against Barack Obama featuring Britney Spears and Paris Hilton recalls a Republican ad—from workers now on the McCain team—that juxtaposed a black Senate candidate with young white women. More »
- Neither Side Has Played Race Card
  
  Salon | Aug 1, 08 2:56 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Accusations of "playing the race card" are flying back and forth between the John McCain and Barack Obama camps, but neither is truly guilty, Joan Walsh writes in Salon. McCain has run an "appalling low-road campaign" of late, but not a racist one, while Obama's comment about not looking like other presidents was about more than just his skin color, she argues. More »
July 2008
- McCain Was Going to Pounce On Obama Either Way
  
  Carpetbagger Report Blog | Jul 31, 08 6:25 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - It's common knowledge by now that a John McCain campaign ad took Barack Obama to task for not visiting wounded US troops in Germany. But David Kiley in BusinessWeek reports that the McCain camp had another ad ready, this one if Obama had visited the troops. It would have charged that Obama was using the soldiers as campaign props. More »
- Obama Should Be Attacking This Guy
  
  Los Angeles Times | Jul 31, 08 3:50 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - John McCain is still keeping things close in the polls, for one simple reason: Barack Obama won’t attack him. Obama seems content to make the entire election about himself, Jonathan Chait writes in the LA Times, trying to make himself an acceptable alternative to the already unpopular Republicans. If that sounds familiar, it’s because John Kerry used the same strategy in 2004. More »
- McCain Camp: Obama Playing 'Race Card'
  
  New York Daily News | Jul 31, 08 2:29 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - John McCain’s campaign adviser accused Barack Obama today of having “played the race card, and he played it from the bottom of the deck,” reports the New York Daily News. The Dem had yesterday described how opponents would use fear against him, saying, “You know, ‘he’s not patriotic enough…he doesn’t look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills.’” More »
- McCain, Aides Often Part Ways on Policy
  
  Politico | Jul 31, 08 2:10 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Much has been made recently of John McCain’s difficulty in driving a message from his “eclectic and occasionally politically inconvenient hodgepodge of policy positions,” Politico says, but little has been said about how often the candidate’s top aides disagree with him. And while fewer public disagreements within the Obama campaign might be attributable to tighter messaging as well as the Democrat's shorter and less-maverick career, Politico takes a look. More »
- McCain Strays Off Message, But Which Message?
  
  Washington Post | Jul 31, 08 1:38 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - John McCain relishes interacting with voters and sparring with the press, a style that's helped earn him his "maverick" reputation even as it ties his advisers and staff in knots. The campaign as a whole is turning to Karl Rove-style tactics, but the candidate's unpredictable behavior is making it tough to present a united front, the Washington Post reports. More »
- Pundits Pile on Stumbling Mac
  
  Wall Street Journal | Jul 31, 08 12:10 PM CDT