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Mark Murray / MSNBC:
NBC/WSJ Poll: McCain halves Obama's lead — Obama up three points; still hasn't convinced some Clinton backers — WASHINGTON - With just days before the vice-presidential announcements, the political conventions and the final sprint to Election Day, Republican Sen. John McCain has cut Democrat …
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WSJ/NBC News Poll: McCain Running a Negative Campaign — Susan Davis reports on the presidential race. — By a nearly six-to-one margin, voters say Republican presidential candidate John McCain is running a negative campaign against his Democratic rival, Barack Obama, according to the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll.
CBS News:
CBS/NYT Poll: McCain Cuts Obama's Lead — Democrat Edges Republican 45% To 42% In Poll Of Registered Voters — (CBS) Republican John McCain has cut Democrat Barack Obama's nationwide lead in half, according to the latest CBS News/New York Times poll. Obama now has the support of 45 percent …
Alexander Mooney / CNN:
Poll of polls: Obama's once-comfortable lead gone — (CNN) — For Barack Obama, the Democratic convention and the bump in the polls that is expected to follow couldn't come soon enough. — According to a new CNN poll of polls, the Illinois senator's once-comfortable lead over McCain …
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Plain Dealer / Cleveland's Top Story …:
Stephanie Tubbs Jones has died, sources say — U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, the first African-American woman to represent Ohio in Congress, has died after suffering a brain aneurysm, said sources familiar with the situation. — She was removed from life support at 12:19 p.m. at Huron Road Hospital, the sources said.
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Plain Dealer / Cleveland's Top Story …:
Stephanie Tubbs Jones: Her life and legacy — U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, five-term representative of the 11th Congressional District, died Wednesday after suffering a burst brain aneurysm. The Plain Dealer's coverage includes the story of her death as well as her vivacious legacy …
Plain Dealer / Cleveland Metro News:Stephanie Tubbs Jones, passionate politician, dies at 58
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Obama campaign set to release TV ad linking McCain, Reed — A newly aggressive Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is set to release a new TV ad in Georgia tomorrow, drawing a connection between Republican John McCain's decision not to call Ralph Reed before a Senate panel …
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National Review:
Wow [Rich Lowry] From McCain campaign: — Please see comment from me on Barack Obama's new ad supposedly running in Georgia: — “Barack Obama's ad is ridiculous. Because of John McCain, corruption was exposed and people like Jack Abramoff went to jail.
Marc Ambinder:
On Those National Polls — The Obama campaign has two disadvantages when it comes to spinning reporters about poll numbers. — One is an us-versus-the-establishment mentality that has, at times, served to protect the campaign from the ill-winds of fashionable opinion: last summer, the national press all but wrote Obama's obituary.
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Existenz / Old Man McCain:
Rare Video: Barack Obama Circa 1995 — Curious to see what Barack Obama was like before he got into politics? — This rare TV interview from 1995 will give you some insight. One thing is clear - the guy is consistent. He's been talking about post-racial, non-polarized politics for over a decade now.
Ali / Think Progress:
McCain On Reinstituting A Military Draft: 'I Don't Disagree' — Today at a townhall meeting, an audience member praised Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) for his vow to “follow bin Laden to the gates of hell.” After a long question about veterans' care, the questioner said she believed we needed …
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Krooney / TIME.com:
Obama's Rice, Clarke Drill McCain Over and Over — The Obama advisers light into McCain, his support for the Iraq War and his general attitude toward combat on afternoon media call. — Listen to the full call here. … McCain camp response here.
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Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Obama Campaign: McCain Is A Reckless Hothead — In an apparent effort to regain the offensive, the Obama campaign launched a broad attack on McCain today, portraying him as reckless on foreign policy, a hot-head who's too willing to use force and not willing enough to apprise himself of facts …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
FREE ADVICE, WORTH EVERY PENNY — Don't ever demand someone stop attacking you. Doesn't work. Don't do it. Sounds weak. Sounds pathetic. And a lot else. — Look at John McCain attacking my patriotism. It's sad what he's become. He'll do anything to get elected. Attack my patriotism.
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Chris Bowers / Open Left:More Free Advice — Josh Marshall has some free advice for Obama …
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Obama Looking to Diminish Superdelegates — Barack Obama's campaign will call next week for the creation of a new commission to revise the rules for selecting a presidential nominee in 2012 with a goal of reducing the power of superdelegates, whose role became a major point of contention during …
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Nick Pisa / Telegraph:
Barack Obama's ‘lost’ brother found in Kenya — Senator Barack Obama's long lost brother has been tracked down for the first time living in a shanty town in Kenya, reports claimed. — The Italian edition of Vanity Fair said that it had found George Hussein Onyango Obama living in a hut …
Ken Whitehouse / Nashville Post:
Obama team to hold ‘major’ event Saturday in Bayh's Indiana — Campaign team gathering for possible veep announcement — NashvillePost.com has learned that senior campaign officials from the Barack Obama Presidential campaign are being dispatched from various locations around the country …
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Glenn Thrush / The Crypt's Blogs:
Clinton creates ‘whip team’ to quell anti-Obama protests — In an unusual move, Hillary Clinton's staff is creating a 40-member “whip team” at the Denver Democratic convention to ensure that her supporters don't engage in embarrassing anti-Obama demonstrations during the floor vote on her nomination …
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