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Poll shows McCain in 5-point lead over Obama — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a sharp turnaround, Republican John McCain has opened a 5-point lead on Democrat Barack Obama in the U.S. presidential race and is seen as a stronger manager of the economy, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.
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Reason Magazine, Bloomberg, Comments from Left Field, Ross Douthat, MoJoBlog, TalkLeft, Corrente, www.redstate.com, Catholics for McCain, The Carpetbagger Report, Donklephant, Right Wing News, Outside The Beltway, Clayton Cramer's BLOG, Vox Popoli, TigerHawk, The Reaction, Don Surber, Ace of Spades HQ and Real Clear Politics
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Reuters/Zogby Poll: McCain Makes a Move, Takes 5-Point Lead Over Obama — Obama loses ground among Dems, women, Catholics & even younger voters — UTICA, New York - As Russian tanks rolled into the Republic of Georgia and the presidential candidates met over the weekend in the first joint issues forum …
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Obama's Ads in Key States Go on Attack — WASHINGTON — Senator Barack Obama has started a sustained and hard-hitting advertising campaign against Senator John McCain in states that will be vital this fall, painting Mr. McCain in a series of commercials as disconnected from the economic struggles of the middle class.
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Arizona poll: McCain holds lead over Obama — 28% of voters surveyed remain undecided — The latest Arizona poll shows Sen. John McCain maintaining a solid 10-point lead in his home state over Sen. Barack Obama, although a large number of registered voters are undecided less than three months before the election.
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Real Clear Politics
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Good News For Obama — Let me preface my remarks by saying that I am a firm believer that the national polling really does not matter until after the second convention. When both candidates have chosen their VP and held their conventions, then I think we will really get a good idea of how the candidates are stacking up.
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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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Sen. Joe Lieberman to speak at GOP convention — WASHINGTON - Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Democratic Party's vice presidential candidate in 2000 and now an independent who is one of John McCain's strongest supporters, will speak at the Republican National Convention, an official said.
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The New Republic, Firedoglake, The Corner, Think Progress, New York Magazine, Open Left and Hot Air
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Giuliani to give keynote at GOP convention — WASHINGTON (AP) - Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani will give the keynote address at the Republican National Convention next month. — First lady Laura Bush, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and John McCain's former Republican rivals will speak as well.
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Firedoglake
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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 …
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What Did We Expect? — If the conflict in Georgia were an Olympic event, the gold medal for brutish stupidity would go to the Russian prime minister, Vladimir Putin. The silver medal for bone-headed recklessness would go to Georgia's president, Mikheil Saakashvili, and the bronze medal …
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The Risk of the Zinger — It was February 2006 in Munich, and John McCain's eyes were flashing with the mischievous spark that comes when he's about to fire a verbal rocket. “I've got a zinger coming,” he told me, referring to a speech on Russia he would give a few hours later at the annual Munich Conference on Security Policy.
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The RBC
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JOHN EDWARDS BLOCKBUSTER NEW EXPOSE! — The NATIONAL ENQUIRER's exclusive ongoing investigation uncovers shocking new revelations about The John Edwards Scandal! — The day prior to Edwards bombshell admission to an affair on ABC's Nightline, Rielle Hunter and her 6 month old daughter …
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Local Clinton backers, McCain adviser meet — A brother of New York Sen. Hillary Clinton and local Democrats who backed her unsuccessful presidential campaign socialized privately Monday with a top surrogate of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Arizona Sen. John McCain.
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The New Republic, The Caucus, Jonathan Martin's Blogs, PolitickerPA, Wonkette and TIME.com
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Report: Rep. Tubbs Jones On Life Support — Congresswoman From Cleveland Hospitalized After Suffering Aneurysm — (CBS) This story was written by CBS News reporter Ryan Corsaro. — Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, D-Ohio, is reported to have suffered an aneurysm and is not expected to recover …
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Two Against The One — In the dead of night in a small hideaway office in the deserted Capitol, a clandestine meeting takes place between two senators with one goal. — They grin at each other as they lift their celebratory shots of brutally cold Stolichnaya.
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“Caroline: Pull a Cheney!” An Open Letter to Caroline Kennedy (head of the Obama VP search team) from Michael Moore — We've never met, so I hope you don't find this letter too presumptuous or inappropriate. As its contents involve the public's business, I am sending this to you via the public on the Internet.
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Brooks: McCain is an Unprincipled Sellout — I'm not sure I've ever really understood the progressive blogosphere convention that everything David Brooks writes must be read in the most ungenerous way possible. Certainly, though, if you apply that method to Brooks' column from yesterday …
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The American Scene
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Obama Adviser Offers Some Advice to Damascus — Daniel Kurtzer Says Israel-Syria Negotiations Should Be Moved Along — WASHINGTON — The next president, whether Republican or Democrat, will make a Syrian-Israeli peace agreement a priority only if the two sides, meeting now in Turkey …