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Poll Says Attacks Backfire on McCain — The McCain campaign's recent angry tone and sharply personal attacks on Senator Barack Obama appear to have backfired and tarnished Senator John McCain more than their intended target, the latest New York Times/CBS News poll has found.
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Poll: Obama Opens 14-Point Lead On McCain — CBS News/New York Times Survey Shows Major Swing Among Independents, Suggests McCain's Strategy May Be Hurting Him — (CBS) Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is entering the third and final presidential debate Wednesday with a wide lead …
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Rush Limbaugh Says Angry Blacks Are In 30 Year Plot To Train Black Children as Militants — As we are witnessing, the conservative movement is in shambles now and the only thing they can do is spew racist hatred out into the world and hope it sticks to their audience in droves.
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Today's Polls, 10/14 — Perhaps the CBS poll that shows Barack …
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Real Clear Politics
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Clinton Supporters Aid Palin — Gov. Sarah Palin met with a group of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's former supporters Tuesday evening at a special fund-raising reception organized for them on behalf of the Republican ticket. — The reception, which organizers said brought in more than $500,000 …
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An Unwitting Assist From the Hockey Mom — PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 13 The Hillary voter has come home. — It wasn't primarily the work of Hillary Clinton, though by her count she has made more than 50 public appearances for Barack Obama. Nor was it the work of Obama, who has kept Clinton and her advisers at arm's length.
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Sweetness & Light, Not Your Sweetie, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Truthdig, TalkLeft and PrestoPundit
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Conservatives win a second, stronger minority; ‘Our support base is stronger,’ Harper says — As of 1:55 a.m. ET, the Conservative party was leading or elected in 143 seats — Conservatives 143; Liberals 77; Bloc 49; NDP 37; Ind 2; Green 0 — OTTAWA — Stephen Harper's Conservatives returned …
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Pinch Yourself — The contrast between, on the one hand, the huge amount of material about Obama's radical associations that has been published in on-line journals and in a few brave newspapers, and on the other the refusal by big media to address it and to vilify those who do, becomes more astounding by the day.
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BREAKING: 6th Circuit reverses on TRO (devastation, humiliation for Jennifer Brunner) — A 3-judge panel of the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals recently vacated a temporary restraining order which would effectively make Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner follow the law - and do her job - in preventing election fraud.
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CIA Tactics Endorsed In Secret Memos — The Bush administration issued a pair of secret memos to the CIA in 2003 and 2004 that explicitly endorsed the agency's use of interrogation techniques such as waterboarding against al-Qaeda suspects — documents prompted by worries among intelligence officials …
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Shocking development: Mrs Obama decides enough is enough: “My husband was born in Hawaii and adopted by his step father, does that make him unpatriotic; she asks”, on a direct telephone to API. — Accusing API of colluding with American internet bloggers in an effort to bring down her husband …
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Obama Camp Rejects Jackson's Claim That He Would Diminish ‘Zionist’ Influence — Barack Obama's campaign rejects Jesse Jackson's claim that “Zionists” would lose clout under an Obama administration. — FOXNews.com — Barack Obama's campaign stepped in quickly Tuesday to distance itself …
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National Review Boots Buckley Son For Obama Boost — Christopher Buckley knew he was venturing into treacherous territory when he endorsed Barack Obama: “It's a good thing my dear old mum and pup are no longer alive. They'd cut off my allowance,” he wrote. — The penalty turned out to be more severe.
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McCain's brother blasts campaign strategy — In e-mail statement, he calls on top aides to “Let John McCain be John McCain” — WASHINGTON - Frustrations inside John McCain's camp boiled over on the eve of Wednesday night's presidential debate as the candidate's brother unleashed …
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Obama drowning out McCain in TV ads — In the first three weeks of September, Barack Obama ran 1,342 television commercials in the Washington media market that reaches heavily populated and contested Northern Virginia. — According to The Nielsen Company, in the same period and market …
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McCain Campaign Sends Letter To YouTube Defending Fair Use — from the what-the...? dept — This is impressive, and somewhat unexpected. It's rather rare to see politicians (other than maginal ones, at least) showing any sort of recognition of fair use.
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Will the Bradley Effect Be Obama's Downfall? — Worries Rise That Questions of Race Overstate Obama's 10-Point Lead — With the economic crisis center stage, Barack Obama has solidified his lead, pulling ahead of John McCain by 10 points among likely voters, 53-43 percent, in a recent ABC News/Washington Post poll.
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Voter fraud alert: Houseful of out-of-state Obama activists registered as Ohio voters, received absentee ballots
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The Other McCain
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Obama's Abortion Extremism — Sen. Barack Obama's views on life issues ranging from abortion to embryonic stem cell research mark him as not merely a pro-choice politician, but rather as the most extreme pro-abortion candidate to have ever run on a major party ticket.
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The Liberal Media's Conservatives — Various folks have already gone round on this subject, but I think it's worth saying something further about the way figures like Mark Levin, Mark Steyn, Victor Davis Hanson and others have responded to those right-of-center pundits who have harshly criticized …