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12:20 AM ET, July 31, 2008

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Marc Ambinder:
Weaver, McCain's Former Strategist, Calls “Celeb” Ad “Childish”  —  John Weaver, for years one of John McCain's closest friends and confidants, has been in exile since his resignation from McCain's presidential campaign last year.  With the exception of an occasional interview, he has …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Keeping Track  —  I note with interest today, John McCain's new tactic of associating Barack Obama with oversexed and/or promiscuous young white women.  (See today's new ad and this from yesterday.)  Presumably, a la Harold Ford 2006, this will be one of those strategies that will be a matter …
David Weigel / Reason Magazine:
I Used to Love Her, But I Had to Kill Her  —  Ben Smith analyzes the blowback from John McCain's new-ish, two-pronged strategy of negative (embellished) attacks on Obama and media-bashing. … Robert Stacy McCain (no relation) has data on the effects: according to Gallup …
Discussion: The Crossed Pond
Massie Ritsch / OpenSecrets.org:
Watchdogs Compare McCain, Obama on Donor Disclosure  —  If you follow this blog closely, you know that the Center for Responsive Politics and seven other watchdog groups asked John McCain and Barack Obama to disclose more information to the public about two segments of their fundraising bases …
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
McCain's Risky Ad Strategy  —  UPDATE, 6:30 pm: Barack Obama's campaign has quickly turned around a response ad that bashes John McCain for practicing the “politics of the past.”  —  The key image?  McCain and President Bush standing side by side while the words “John McCain: Same Old Politics, Same Failed Policies” appear on screen.
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
McCain Tries to Define Obama as Out of Touch
Discussion: The Anonymous Liberal
Mark Murray / MSNBC:   AXELROD RESPONDS TO MCCAIN TV AD
New York Observer:
Mac Attack  —  They Adored Him!  Senator McCain Had the Press Eating …
Discussion: Wonkette
Tom Bevan / Real Clear Politics:
McCain Memo Slams Obama's Celebrity
Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
New McCain Ad Attacks Obama As A “Celebrity”
Alexander Mooney / CNN:
Poll shows Obama's trip didn't change race  —  (CNN) — It was a weeklong trip that drew blanket media coverage and sharp criticism from Republicans, but Barack Obama's recent tour abroad did little to alter the standing of the presidential race, a new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll shows.
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Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Presidential Race Tightens to 4 Points  —  PRINCETON, NJ — After moving into a nine percentage point lead over John McCain in Gallup Poll Daily tracking of national registered voters this past weekend, Barack Obama now leads by just four points, 46% to 42%.
Alexander Mooney / CNN:
Poll: Most Americans want offshore drilling
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Obama camp condemns song: Ludacris ‘should be ashamed’  —  Barack Obama's campaign is condemning a song by the rapper Ludacris that praises Obama and bitterly attacks Senators Hillary Clinton and John McCain.  —  “As Barack Obama has said many, many times in the past, rap lyrics today …
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Amanda Erickson / The Swamp:
Obama + Ludacris = best friends 4eva
The Onion:
Al Gore Places Infant Son In Rocket To Escape Dying Planet  —  EARTH—Former vice president Al Gore—who for the past three decades has unsuccessfully attempted to warn humanity of the coming destruction of our planet, only to be mocked and derided by the very people he has tried to save …
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
President Obama Continues Hectic Victory Tour  —  Barack Obama has long been his party's presumptive nominee.  Now he's becoming its presumptuous nominee.  —  Fresh from his presidential-style world tour, during which foreign leaders and American generals lined up to show him affection …
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Jonathan Weisman / The Trail:
Obama's Symbolic Importance
Mark Murray / MSNBC:
FIRST THOUGHTS: ROCK BOTTOM FOR GOPERS?
Discussion: The New Republic
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
For White House, Hiring Is Political  —  WASHINGTON — On May 17, 2005, the White House's political affairs office sent an e-mail message to agencies throughout the executive branch directing them to find jobs for 108 people on a list of “priority candidates” who had “loyally served the president.”
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The Hill:
50 Most Beautiful People on Capitol Hill 2008 - Top 10  —  Political party: Democrat.  —  Dating status: “Happily single”  —  She's striking - and accident-prone.  —  Three weeks ago, Tulani Elisa, a legislative assistant for Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), fell down while going up the Metro escalator that leads into Dupont Circle.
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias
Mother Jones:
There's Something About Mary: Unmasking a Gun Lobby Mole  —  NEWS: Mary McFate was a prominent gun control activist.  Mary Lou Sapone was a freelance spy with an NRA connection.  They are the same person.  A Mother Jones investigation.  —  This is the story of two Marys.
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
McCain camp on Obama's ‘hysteria’  —  Staying very personal, the McCain campaign responds to Obama's suggestion that Republicans will attack his unusual name and his race:  —  “This is a typically superfluous response from Barack Obama.  Like most celebrities, he reacts to fair criticism …
Darleen Click / protein wisdom:
Things that chap my ass - an ongoing series  —  One could almost hear the audible hissing over McCain's ad questioning O!'s unseriousness over drilling while O! continues his Great Pretender tour, yet O! turns around and continues to insult the intelligence of those not completely in his thrall:
Discussion: Power Line
Joby Warrick / Washington Post:
Strategy Against Al-Qaeda Faulted  —  The Bush administration's terrorism-fighting strategy has not significantly undermined al-Qaeda's capabilities, according to a major new study that argues the struggle against terrorism is better waged by law enforcement agencies than by armies.
 
 
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U.S. Intel: Iran Plans Nuclear Strike on U.S.
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Ari / ProgressiveAccountability.org:
John McCain and Britney
Discussion: D-Day and Democrats.com
Matt / Think Progress:
Secretary Of Energy Repeats Katrina Oil Spill Lie: 'Not One Case …
Discussion: White House
Frank James / The Swamp:
Pawlenty: Let's govern like Sam's Club
Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
THE STEVENS FALLOUT BEGINS
Molly Hunter / Political Radar:
Obama: McCain Trying to Make Voters ‘Scared’ of Me
CNN:
Legislators aim to snuff out penalties for pot use
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Hopium helps you forget several unpleasant facts
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Women voters aren't warming to ‘cool’ Obama
 

 
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