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Michael Scherer / Swampland:
McCain Slams The Supreme Court's Habeas Decision — PEMBERTON, N.J.—I am still sitting in a John McCain town hall, so have not had time to transcribe the full quotes, but wanted to post this quick. After a day of consideration, the McCain Campaign has decided to come out hard against yesterday's 5 …
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The Huffington Post:
McCain Stacks Fox News ‘Town Hall’ With Supporters — Tonight was the first in a much-hyped series of ‘town hall’ forums scheduled by John McCain's campaign, in which Barack Obama had been challenged to show up to discuss the issues directly with the GOP nominee.
John Scalzi / Whatever:
Fox News Would Like To Take a Moment To Remind You That the Obamas Are As Black As Satan's Festering, Baby-Eating Soul — Back in the day - you know, when presidential candidates were respectably white - news organizations called potential First Ladies “wives.”
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Wall Street Journal:
News Outlets Face Increasing Scrutiny in Campaign — Bloggers Rip Fox Over Screen Text About Mrs. Obama — For the second time this week, Fox News Channel was driven to respond to criticism over on-air statements about Barack Obama, in this case for screen text that described …
Blue Texan / Firedoglake:
Noonan: Obama Is An Unpatriotic, Effeminate, Cynical, Immoral, Godless Opportunist — Today, Nooner bases her entire column on this comparison: … You can see right away where this is headed, don't you? … Translation: Obama hates America. … Yup, and apparently, in Old America …
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Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
Brave New World? — And so it begins, the campaign proper.
Brave New World? — And so it begins, the campaign proper.
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The Hill:
McCains report more than $100,000 in credit card debt — Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and his wife reported more than $100,000 of credit card liabilities, according to financial disclosure documents released Friday. — The presidential candidate and his wife Cindy reported piling up debt on a charge card between $10,000 and $15,000.
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Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Obama 46%, McCain 43% — Obama's lead shrinks slightly compared with earlier this week — PRINCETON, NJ — Barack Obama leads John McCain in national registered voter preferences for the election, but by a slightly narrower margin than he had earlier this week, 46% vs. 43%.
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E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Democratic Tide on The Rise
Democratic Tide on The Rise
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Matthew Yglesias:
Obama on Social Security — I think one of the big questions hanging out there in the campaign is how America's currently McCain-loving seniors will feel when they find out about McCain's passion for wrecking Social Security. I got some remarks from the Obama campaign in my inbox this morning …
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Charles Babington / Associated Press:
Obama wants payroll tax on incomes above $250,000
Obama wants payroll tax on incomes above $250,000
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Portfolio:
Countrywide's Many ‘Friends’ — Two U.S. senators, two former Cabinet members, and a former ambassador to the United Nations received loans from Countrywide Financial through a little-known program that waived points, lender fees, and company borrowing rules for prominent people.
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Josh Gerstein / New York Sun:
McCain on Wall Street: ‘Angry’ About Oil — Speaking on Wall Street last night, Senator McCain of Arizona sounded more like an economic populist than a proponent of the kind of unbridled free-market capitalism promoted by many who work on the trading floors nearby.
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Peter Slevin / Washington Post:
Obama Campaign Dispatching Thousands — Moving to harness the grass-roots energy that helped win the Democratic nomination, Sen. Barack Obama's campaign will deploy 3,600 volunteers in 17 states this weekend, each committed to six consecutive weeks of full-time political work.
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Town hall talks break down — The talks between the McCain and Obama campaigns on debates appear to have broken down, with Obama's campaign — evidently concluding that the format could favor McCain, or at least give McCain some oxygen — offering just one town hall and one extra debate in response to McCain's suggestion of 10.
Lessig Blog:
The Kozinski mess — So the wires are a twitter with the story of Chief Judge Alex Kozinski's “web site” which, from reading the stories, you'd think was filled with porn (and worse), revealing a dark soul who, some experts in legal ethics suggest, shouldn't be presiding at an obscenity trial.
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Los Angeles Times, The Volokh Conspiracy, Firedoglake, Balkinization, Althouse, Open Left and Threat Level
John Rodgers / Nashville City Paper:
Updated: Superdelegate Davis slow to endorse Obama — Some Tennesseans wonder why Congressman Lincoln Davis (D-Pall Mall) is waiting until the Democratic National Convention in August before endorsing his party's nominee for President. Courtesy of lincolndavis.com
Ian Bailey / Globe and Mail:
Powell tells B.C. crowd he might vote for Obama — VANCOUVER — Colin Powell, the former Republican secretary of state, says he is not ruling out a vote for Barack Obama, the presumed Democratic nominee for president. — While Mr. Powell served in the administrations of two Republican presidents …