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'Rednecks' Endorse Obama
 'Rednecks' Endorse Obama 
Oct 9, 2008 6:27 PM CDT

'Rednecks' Endorse Obama

Two seniors look to bridge a cultural gap

(Newser) - Two self-described "rednecks" from the South are on a mission to help elect the nation's first black president. AFP looks at the efforts of the Missouri senior citizens who are defying stereotype with their tounge-in-cheek “Rednecks for Obama” campaign. Their banner drew big crowds at last week's debate,...

Obama Buys Half-Hour of Network Primetime

30 minutes on October 29th may be accompanied by other TV buys

(Newser) - Barack Obama’s campaign is planning an 11th-hour advertising blitz and has purchased a half-hour of primetime TV on CBS for October 29th, Politico reports. A special will air that night, just days before the election, at 8pm. Rumor has it that Obama also is nearing deals with NBC and...

In Email In-Boxes, Obama Wins in a Spam-Slide

Unwanted emailers 6 times less likely to mention McCain

(Newser) - Spammers love Barack Obama, or at least love writing about him: He beats John McCain  six to one in spam mentions, reports Ars Technica. Obama mentions surged during the Republican National Convention last month, even though media coverage featured McCain more frequently than his opponent. Obama emails highlight religion and...

We All Have Some Guilty Associations
We All Have Some Guilty Associations
COMMENTARY
Oct 9, 2008 12:37 PM CDT

We All Have Some Guilty Associations

Gail Collins has been palling around with terrorists, too

(Newser) - So William Ayers once threw a house party for Barack Obama, and now Obama’s responsible for all Ayers’ misdeeds? By that standard, writes Gail Collins—who might have attended a college party with Ayers' wife, Bernardine Dohrn—"I believe I may now be held partly responsible for all...

Disaster Ahead for McCain, Obama, and Us
Disaster Ahead for McCain, Obama, and Us
OPINION
Oct 9, 2008 10:07 AM CDT

Disaster Ahead for McCain, Obama, and Us

Economic crisis will ruin political, financial fortunes alike

(Newser) - Disaster’s dead ahead for John McCain, for Barack Obama, and for the rest of us, too, writes Rosa Brooks in the Los Angeles Times. McCain is “a dead man walking,” as he’ll soon find out. The "winner" will be a President Obama with no idea...

McCain Is a Cub in Bear Market
 McCain Is a Cub in Bear Market 
OPINION
Oct 9, 2008 8:06 AM CDT

McCain Is a Cub in Bear Market

Republican getting desperate as the economy buries campaign

(Newser) - With Barack Obama making a strong showing in so many red states, wild proposals are all that’s left for John McCain to try, writes George Will in the Washington Post, because this election seems over. McCain's proposal to pad the bailout with several hundred billion more for a mortgage-buying...

Hey, GOP: Let's Emulate Obama's Cool
Hey, GOP:
Let's Emulate Obama's Cool
OPINION
Oct 9, 2008 7:57 AM CDT

Hey, GOP: Let's Emulate Obama's Cool

Attack ads worked in 2004. That's not where we're at: Frum

(Newser) - David Frum plans to vote for John McCain, but with the economy in ruin, anyone who thinks the GOP can win “by banging on about William Ayers and Jeremiah Wright is...to put it mildly...severely under-estimating the electoral importance of pocketbook issues.” These desperate attacks “are...

'Ex' Smoker Obama Still Lights Up
'Ex' Smoker Obama Still Lights Up
Oct 9, 2008 2:20 AM CDT

'Ex' Smoker Obama Still Lights Up

He 'fesses to bumming cigs when pressure trumps fight to stay fit

(Newser) - It's not easy staying healthy during a grueling campaign, admits Barack Obama, who even fesses up to bumming a few cigarettes. He still manages to squeeze in six 45-minute workouts per week—but the ex-smoker admits giving in to temptation and sucking down the  occasional coffin nail, Obama tells Men's ...

Good News, Barack: Rezko Sentencing Postponed

Oct. 28 date may have meant bad publicity for Obama

(Newser) - A federal judge has postponed political fund-raiser Tony Rezko’s October 28 sentencing indefinitely, potentially lightening Barack Obama's political load, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. Rezko has been linked to Obama, and his sentencing for improper financial dealings could have meant bad publicity just before the election. The delay is a...

Sarah Silverman, You Don't Get Jewish Voters
Sarah Silverman, You Don't Get Jewish Voters
OPINION
Oct 8, 2008 2:26 PM CDT

Sarah Silverman, You Don't Get Jewish Voters

Bubbie is uneasy over Obama's stance on Israel

(Newser) - Sarah Silverman may be urging young Jews to persuade their bubbies in Florida to vote for Barack Obama, but older Jews are right to be uneasy with the Democrat, writes Anat Hakim in the Los Angeles Times. Much of Obama’s history has Jews feeling that “something is just...

Oh, Was There a Debate Last Night?
Oh, Was There
a Debate
Last Night?
ANALYSIS
Oct 8, 2008 11:53 AM CDT

Oh, Was There a Debate Last Night?

Forum brought McCain one non-event closer to November defeat

(Newser) - Last night’s debate was uneventful, writes Roger Simon in Politico, and uneventful is a bad thing for John McCain. Neither candidate delivered "a knockout punch,” which leaves McCain the loser because “he needed one.” Republican stewardship of the tanking economy has painted McCain into a...

McCain Resorts to Atwater's Bag of Dirty Tricks
McCain Resorts to Atwater's Bag of Dirty Tricks
OPINION
Oct 8, 2008 11:15 AM CDT

McCain Resorts to Atwater's Bag of Dirty Tricks

They're trying to turn Obama into Willie Horton, Dowd writes

(Newser) - Before Karl Rove, Maureen Dowd reminds us, it was Lee Atwater who masterminded the Republican smear campaign, and his demolition of Michael Dukakis was his greatest, dirtiest success. Atwater painted the 1988 candidate as a weak Harvard-educated elitist with a weird last name, a man who supported "the Scary...

What We Saw: Hot vs. Cool Old vs. Young

How they acted

(Newser) - What viewers see is as important as what they hear in debates. So what did pundits see?  
  • "The expressions on John McCain's face, and the irritation in his voice, said it all," writes the San Francisco Chronicle. McCain “was a portrait of frustration,” while Obama
...

Esquire Endorses Obama ... Kinda

He might be unable to define what change means, but Barack's the only horse in the race, say mag's editors

(Newser) - Barack Obama "is the only possible choice to lead the country," says Esquire, though the magazine’s position is less an endorsement of Obama and more a treatise against John McCain. Obama has failed to define his key campaign theme of change “except as all those things...

Obama Takes Round 2: Polls
 Obama Takes 
Round 2: Polls 

Oct 8, 2008 2:08 AM CDT

Obama Takes Round 2: Polls

Dem grabs clear debate victory in CBS, CNN polls

(Newser) - Barack Obama was the clear winner of last night's debate against John McCain, two separate polls conducted for television networks found. Minutes after the debate ended, 40% of uncommitted voters identified Obama as the winner to 26% who said McCain came out on top, CBS News reports. Viewers found Obama...

Candidates Tangle on Economy in Debate No. 2

(Newser) - Barack Obama and John McCain were hit with blunt questions tonight about how they would "bail out" Americans hurt by the staggering economy. In the second of three debates, this one a town hall-style face-off, the candidates fielded questions from an audience of 80 undecided voters and moderator Tom...

Women Swing Back to Barack
 Women Swing Back to Barack 
Oct 7, 2008 6:43 PM CDT

Women Swing Back to Barack

Sarah Palin's candidacy shook up the race, but polls show female support in line with past elections

(Newser) - Sarah Palin’s novel influence on the presidential campaign appears to have waned, and the “gender gap” among voters has reverted to that in past elections, the Chicago Tribune reports. That means women favor Democrat Barack Obama over Republican John McCain. Women will support Obama by a margin of...

Facing Actual Voters Can Be Tall Order
 Facing Actual Voters 
 Can Be Tall Order 
OPINION
Oct 7, 2008 2:20 PM CDT

Facing Actual Voters Can Be Tall Order

Candidates won't be as easily able to duck pointed questions in tonight's debate format

(Newser) - The presidential candidates will be walking into a lion’s den tonight, forced to face those most dangerous of creatures: undecided voters. The town-hall debate could be a “snooze-fest,” writes John Dickerson on Slate, but there’s also a chance “Ponytail Guy”—the town-haller who famously...

Why Are We Talking About Keating, Ayers?

Mac has forgotten the lessons of the scandal that made him a better man

(Newser) - Barack Obama's camp resurrected the Keating Five as a “eye for an eye” campaign issue this week, after the McCain team revived Obama's sometime relationship with Bill Ayers, the former '60s-era radical. But the Obama folks missed what makes the 20-year-old scandal actually relevant, writes Walter Shapiro on Salon....

New Yorker Endorses Obama's 'Uplift and Realism'

After 'disaster' of Bush, he offers 'both uplift and realism'

(Newser) - At a critical moment in its history, the United States "needs both uplift and realism, both change and steadiness"—and Barack Obama is the man to deliver it, writes the New Yorker in a 4,000-word endorsement. After George W. Bush, whose presidency has been "the worst...

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