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Multiple Oil Company Executives Gave Huge Contributions To Electing McCain Just Days After Offshore Drilling Reversal — Ten senior Hess Corporation executives and/or members of the Hess family each gave $28,500 to the joint RNC-McCain fundraising committee, just days after McCain reversed himself …
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Obama's Overstatement — An Obama ad says McCain's campaign got $2 million from “Big Oil.” The total is actually $1.3 million. — Obama released a TV spot saying McCain's campaign got $2 million from “Big Oil” while McCain proposed “another $4 billion in tax breaks” for the industry.
Matthew Mosk / The Trail:
Left Keeps Hammering McCain Oil Ties — Left-leaning interest groups, the Democratic National Committee and the campaign of Democrat Barack Obama have been hammering away at Republican John McCain over the the Arizona senator's fundraising success with oil companies.
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McCain's Oil Co. Donors — Senator John McCain received a burst of donations in June from oil company employees after he came out in favor of offshore drilling, according to a report released last week by Campaign Money Watch, a watchdog organization. — But the largest collective response …
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Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:POCKET....Here's the latest Obama ad pushing back on John McCain's oil policy.
Robert Novak / Chicago Sun Times:
Sun-Times political columnist Robert Novak retires — FROM SUN-TIMES STAFF REPORTS — Robert Novak has announced his immediate retirement following the diagnosis of a brain tumor, a prognosis the Sun-Times' political columnist describes as “dire.” — “The details are being worked …
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Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
GOP won't let go of its new tire-gauge toy — Atrios asked this morning, “Does anyone understand why Obama suggesting that people keep their tires properly inflated is some sort of hilarious gaffe?” — I've been trying to figure out the same thing for days.
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Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Obama 46%, McCain 43% — PRINCETON, NJ — Registered voters show a slight preference for Barack Obama (46%) over John McCain (43%) if the presidential election were held today, according to the latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking results. — The three percentage point advantage …
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Bob Herbert: Why is everyone missing the phallic symbols in McCain's Britney ad? — Between this and last week's Godwin-ing of the crowd scenes, I'm honestly curious to see where the left takes the critique next. One would think they'd either run out of cards to play or would quietly pocket …
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Seton Motley / NewsBusters.org:
McCain Not First to Compare Obama to Paris Hilton — Editor's Note: Update below the fold. — The uproar of the media, serving as adjunct PR firms in defense of their beloved Sen. Barack Obama in response to Sen. John McCain's video comparing the Illinois Senator to Paris Hilton, was deafening.
Ryan Grim / The Politico:
Bayh Partisans cancel softball game — Sen. Evan Bayh's staff softball team, The Bayh Partisans, has cancelled the game it had scheduled for tomorrow evening with the drug policy team The One Hitters. Bayh staffer Jonathan Stahler sent One Hitter team captain Kris Krane an e-mail Monday morning citing …
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Bil Browning / The Bilerico Project:
Obama will name Bayh his VP choice on Wednesday — Updated at the end of the post. — I'm going to put my neck out on the line by making a prediction. Barack Obama will announce his vice-presidential choice Wednesday morning. It will be Indiana Senator Evan Bayh.
The Hill:
White House says no to special session of Congress — The White House has rejected calls from House Republicans that it convene a special session of Congress on energy, saying it wouldn't make a difference. — “We don't have plans to call Congress into session — it won't make a difference …
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Associated Press:
Obama about-face: Tap U.S. oil reserves — He changes stance on stockpile, saying release can lower gasoline prices — “Breaking our oil addiction is one of the greatest challenges our generation will ever face,” Barack Obama said Monday in a speech on energy policy in Lansing, Mich.
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Christopher Hass / Barack Obama:
Barack in Lansing, MI: “We must end the age of oil in our time.” — Senator Obama just concluded a major speech in Lansing, Michigan where he addressed our current energy crisis and described our addiction to foreign oil as “central” to all of the major challenges facing us today.
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Scott Helman / Boston Globe:
Boston's birthday gift to Obama — Happy Birthday indeed. — Boston's biggest names in Democratic politics, once divided into two camps during the presidential primary, united this evening to throw Barack Obama a 47th birthday fund-raiser bash. — The event at the swank State Room near Faneuil Hall …
Daniel J. Chacon / Rocky Mountain News:
DNC protesters offer Denver a “doo doo” treaty — Representatives of three groups planning protests during the Democratic National Convention will be signing what they're calling a “Doo Doo Accord” in advance of a City Council meeting where an ordinance that would ban protesters from carrying certain items …
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