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September 2008
- Obama May Get Out the Anti-Gay Marriage Vote
  
  New York Times | Sep 21, 08 4:04 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Black voters energized by Barack Obama’s candidacy may also support a Californian ballot measure to ban same-sex marriage, the New York Times reports, though Obama himself opposes the ban. Opponents and supporters of Proposition 8 say African Americans will play a crucial role, and each side is trying to win over black voters. More »
- Better Football-Watching Buddy? Obama By a Nose
  
  Associated Press | Sep 19, 08 3:58 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A slim majority of Americans would rather watch a football game with Barack Obama than John McCain, the AP reports. Though the margin is not great—50% to 47%—a poll by AP and Yahoo showed that each candidate’s appeal crossed party lines. About a tenth of Obama faithful would rather spend a Sunday with McCain, while almost a fifth of McCain backers would go the other way. More »
- In Fla., Obama Lays Into 'Panicked' Mac
  
  Miami Herald | Sep 19, 08 3:00 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Barack Obama criticized the administration’s response to the plight of working families today, while calling for steps to regulate large financial institutions, CNN reports. “We cannot only have a plan for Wall Street,” he said. “We must also help Main Street as well.” The Democrat used the rally outside Miami to pitch himself to women and retirees in the battleground state. More »
- Rush: Obama Is Race-Baiting
  
  Wall Street Journal | Sep 19, 08 12:13 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Rush Limbaugh, himself the frequent target of race-baiting charges, has turned the tables on Barack Obama. In a Wall Street Journal essay, Limbaugh says Obama is distorting his words to create a misleading Spanish-language ad about immigration that he likens to "vile fear-mongering" of the "old segretationists." The ad uses two Limbaugh quotes, which the radio host says were obvious attempts at parody in full context. More »
- Confidence in Strategy Keeps Obama Cool
  
  Slate | Sep 18, 08 7:07 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The polls may go up and down for Barack Obama, but his campaign stays as cool as if he were ahead by 10 points, writes John Dickerson in Slate. Why hasn’t Obama panicked? Maybe the campaign has panicked, but staffers don’t "dare let on because voters won’t want to elect a candidate who can’t take the heat." More »
- McCain Wants SEC Chief Out; Obama Says It's Not Enough
  
  Bloomberg | Sep 18, 08 5:25 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - John McCain said today he would fire the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission and blasted federal regulators for being “asleep at the switch,” Bloomberg reports. McCain, who's lost ground in the polls during the recent economic turmoil, said the SEC “kept in place trading rules that let speculators and hedge funds turn our markets into a casino.” More »
- Tech Tools Gauge Politicians' Spin
  
  New Scientist | Sep 18, 08 4:11 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Want to know if John McCain and Barack Obama are stretching the truth? Speech, voice, and facial recognition technology is helping researchers determine just that, New Scientist reports. Analyzing words from 150 speeches from the presidential election, one researcher found that Obama used much higher “levels of spin” than McCain. “Obama is very good at using stirring rhetoric to deal with the issues. And it seems to work if you look at what happens in the polls afterwards,” he noted. More »
- McCain Accuses Obama of Killing Immigration Bill
  
  Los Angeles Times | Sep 18, 08 3:58 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - John McCain is accusing Barack Obama of trying to kill an immigration overhaul that both candidates supported, reports the Los Angeles Times . McCain is running a Spanish-language ad attacking Obama for undermining the immigration bill. He has also criticized the Democrat for supporting amendments “that would have killed the legislation.” But the director of an immigration group calls McCain’s attack “stunning in its misrepresentation.” More »
- Obama's Tax Plan Is 'Dumb... Painful': McCain
  
  Chicago Tribune | Sep 18, 08 3:38 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - John McCain slammed Democratic plans to raise taxes as “just plain dumb” and “painful,” the Chicago Tribune reports. The vehement appraisal came after Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden urged high-income earners to embrace a tax hike targeted at them