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August 2007
- Castro Casts Lot With Clinton-Obama
  
  Reuters | Aug 28, 07 3:27 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - One week after both Democratic hopefuls called for democracy in Cuba, Fidel Castro has called a Hillary Clinton-Barack Obama ticket “apparently unbeatable.” A Granma editorial attributed to the ailing revolutionary—who is rumored to be dead—says the US opposition he’s faced over the years is fodder for Florida’s Cuban exile community. More »
- Obama Has GOP Crossover Appeal
  
  Salon | Aug 24, 07 6:28 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Here's one race where Barack isn't trailing Hillary: the one for GOP defectors. In a recent poll, Iowa Republicans chose the freshman senator as their third-favored presidential candidate (after Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani), Salon reports. And in recent GOP focus groups, Obama’s crossover appeal was more than twice that of any of his Dem rivals. More »
- Giuliani Tops McCain With Vets
  
  New York Post | Aug 24, 07 1:29 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - In a new poll, military veterans like Rudy Giuliani best of the top-tier presidential hopefuls. Rudy beats ex-POW John McCain's favorable rating 64% to 52%, the Post reports. Surprisingly, the third place candidate is Barack Obama, at 44%, edging out Edwards (43%) and Thompson (40%). Clinton (37%) and Romney (33%) bring up the rear. More »
- Financial Woes Crucial Issue in '08 Election
  
  Politico | Aug 23, 07 3:51 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A new poll of AARP members shows that financial security will be a big factor in how 90% will vote in early 2008 presidential primaries, the Politico reports. Though many of the 5,000 potential voters aren't familiar with candidates' positions on financial and health issues, one pollster says, more than half are willing to base decisions on the candidates' stances. More »
- Congress' Only Iraq War Vet Backs Obama
  
  New York Daily News | Aug 22, 07 11:14 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The only Iraq War combat vet in Congress endorsed Barack Obama yesterday, saying, "I'm inspired by his call to action to change how business is done in Washington." Pennsylvania's Patrick Murphy, who served as a paratrooper in Baghdad in 2003 and 2004, has worked with Hillary Clinton on legislation; the move is seen as a snub, the Daily News reports. More »
- Obama Would Ease Cuba Travel Limits
  
  Associated Press | Aug 21, 07 11:02 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Barack Obama says that as president, he would reverse the Bush administration's increased restrictions on travel to Cuba, the AP reports. Visiting or sending money to relatives on the Communist-controlled island became more difficult in 2004, a policy change the candidate calls "strategically blundering" in an op-ed published in today's Miami Herald. More »
- Obama Girl's Crush Is Unrequited
  
  Associated Press | Aug 21, 07 5:19 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Barack Obama has no love for sexy fan "Obama Girl." The hot YouTube video featuring the aspiring model crushing on the candidate is confusing his 6-year-old daughter and he says he finds it hard to take. She said, "Daddy, already has a wife," he told the AP. "You wish people would think about what impact their actions have on kids and families." More »
- Dems Pal Around in Iowa
  
  Washington Post | Aug 19, 07 4:45 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - In a more-amiable-than-usual war of words, the Democrats debated this morning in Iowa, the locale of the pivotal first primary. Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John Edwards dominated the 90-minute discussion moderated by ex-Bill Clinton aide George Stephanopolous, the Washington Post 's Chris Cillizza reports, playing it safe as the lower-tier contenders circled. More »
- Obama Brushes off Fall Debates
  
  Politico | Aug 18, 07 9:20 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Barack Obama's campaign declared forum fatigue today, announcing that the presidential hopeful will decline requests to speak at debates and forums for the rest of this fall, beyond those they've already committed to. “Unfortunately, we simply cannot run the kind of campaign we want and need to," campaign manager David Plouffe wrote on the candidate's web site, "if our schedule is dictated by dozens of forums and debates.” More »
- Romney's So Rich It Surprised Even Him
  
  Bloomberg | Aug 13, 07 5:11 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Mitt Romney looks to be richer than the other presidential candidates combined, Bloomberg reports. In a filing today with the Federal Election Commission, the GOP contender today revealed that he and his wife jointly own assets worth between $190 and $270 million. Since their assets have been in a blind trust since 2003, the former VC says the numbers came as a surprise to him, too. More »
- Obama Needs to Try On a Blue Collar
  
  Newsweek | Aug 13, 07 12:35 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Barack Obama is having trouble appealing to the more downscale wing of the Democratic Party, a problem on display in a recent Iowa farm appearance in which the Chicagoan complained about the price of arugula at Whole Foods. More a “wine track” than a “beer track” candidate, Obama must find a way to bond with blue collar voters—or Clinton will own them, Newsweek reports. More »
- Obama: the Accidental Candidate
  
  Washington Post | Aug 12, 07 7:58 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Barack Obama’s rapid ascent to top-tier presidential candidate was the stuff of lucky break after lucky break, as quiet charisma and other people’s sex scandals catapulted him to the top, the Washington Post reports. It was a chance opening that first took him to Chicago and chance again that opened up a US Senate seat from Illinois. “It’s like he’s cut in line,” a Hill staffer observed. More »
- Hillary to Barack: 'Don't Even Do as I Say'
  
  Associated Press | Aug 10, 07 2:45 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A year before Hillary Clinton blasted Barack Obama’s prohibition on nukes against Pakistan, she made one on using them in Iran. The AP reports the frontrunner’s head-shaking rebuke last week—no “president should make any blanket statements” about nuke use—doesn't jibe with her own position last year. “I would certainly take nuclear weapons off the table,” Clinton said in April 2006. More »
- Dems Court Rainbow Vote
  
  Time | Aug 10, 07 11:37 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - All of the Democrats who appeared at last night’s gay rights forum touted their support of sponsor Human Rights Campaign—but it was Hillary Clinton who aced the tightrope test, according to Time ’s Mark Halperin. Hillary managed to oppose gay marriage without playing defense, all the while supplying “major doses of Clintonesque eye contact.” More »
- Obama Does Housework
  
  Chicago Tribune | Aug 9, 07 8:52 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Barack Obama mopped, dusted, and made breakfast for an elderly amputee yesterday as a precondition for gaining endorsement from the powerful Service Employees Union. Accompanied by a throng of photographers, Obama helped a caregiver perform her daily duties, and did his best to please. "Is this the way he likes it?" he asked when making the bed. More »
- Pakistan Braces for State of Emergency
  
  Guardian (UK) | Aug 9, 07 4:47 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Pervez Musharraf held a meeting this morning to discuss the declaration of a state of emergency in Pakistan, says the Guardian . Although the government claimed that recent suicide attacks and recent belligerent talk from the White House—not to speak of the Barack Obama campaign—may necessitate emergency measures, opponents of Musharraf saw the move as a last-ditch effort to stay in power. More »
- Does Armani Make a Football Helmet?
  
  USA Today | Aug 8, 07 4:22 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - On a best-dressed list, one might expect a few actors—but world leaders, a presidential hopeful, and couple of journalists, all trailing a guy who often works in sweatpants? Esquire , you've officially blown our minds. The top 10: Tom Brady Jay-Z Daniel Craig Barack Obama André Balazs More »
- Elbows Keep Getting Sharper
  
  Newsday | Aug 8, 07 5:40 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama delivered their sharpest attacks yet at each other's foreign policy visions at a debate last night in Obama's hometown. Newsday writes that the two senators went after each other with unprecedented ferocity: Clinton suggested that Obama was naive and unschooled in diplomacy, while Obama cited Clinton's authorization of the Iraq war. More »
- Hillary & Barack 'Barely Speak'
  
  New York Times | Aug 7, 07 5:12 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - White House hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are no longer on speaking terms after months of increasingly glacial rivalry on the campaign trail, the Times reports. With another half a year until the first primary, the public tension—the pair carefully avoid contact whenever possible—may bode ill for a future partnership. More »
- She's Giuliani's Kid, but She's in Obama's Camp
  
  Slate | Aug 6, 07 3:42 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - He may be America's mayor, but to Caroline Giuliani he's just dad—and she's not having anything to do with the idea of him as president. In her Facebook profile, the soon-to-be Harvard freshman lists herself as politically liberal, and says she's is backing Barack Obama. At least she was until Slate got a look at her page and spread the news. More »