Election 2008

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Palin's Hockey Rink Leads To Legal Trouble in Town She Led - WSJ.com

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Electoral-vote.com: President, Senate, House Updated Daily

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“#rnc08 Smaller Indiana Election poll skewed to Obama types, need more voters ..http://www.smallerindiana.com/ ... anon and no sign up”

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Daily Kos: Polling: Today's Bottom Line On Sarah Palin

August 30 at 3:46 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

"This story will continue to play out, but as for where we are now, Sarah Palin is not helping with women. These are quick polls, and it may well be this is a ceiling and not a floor as the scorn continues on a daily basis. The GOP convention looks like it's going to need to play defense as well as offense." - Ruth Ferguson via Bookmarklet

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Top McCain aide says McCain won't die during his first term in office, and admits Palin isn't ready to be commander in chief

August 29 at 10:29 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

"Mr. McCain’s advisers said Friday that Mr. McCain was well aware that Ms. Palin would be criticized for her lack of foreign policy experience, but that he viewed her as exceptionally talented and intelligent and that he felt she would be able to be educated quickly. “She’s going to learn national security at the foot of the master for the next four years, and most doctors think that he’ll be around at least that long,” said Charlie Black, one of Mr. McCain’s top advisers, making light of concerns about Mr. McCain’s health, which Mr. McCain’s doctors reported as excellent in May." - Ruth Ferguson via Bookmarklet

TPM Election Central | Talking Points Memo | GOP Senator Runs Anti-War Ad After Obama's Speech

August 29 at 10:25 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Sarah Palin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

August 29 at 10:15 pm - via Reshare - Link

"Palin initially expressed support for the Gravina Island Bridge project,[18] commonly known outside the state as the "Bridge to Nowhere." However, once it had become a nationwide symbol of wasteful earmark spending and some Federal funding was lost, Palin cancelled the bridge. She was able to keep the Federal money[19] because Alaska's congressional delegation was unable to prevent the state of Alaska from having to pay for part of the bridge's construction.[20][21] She stated that Alaska should rely less on Federal funding.[22]" - Ruth Ferguson

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Putin Suggests U.S. Provocation in Georgia Clash - NYTimes.com

August 28 at 11:35 pm - via Reshare - Link

"lashed out at the United States on Thursday, contending that the White House may have orchestrated the conflict to benefit one of the candidates in the American presidential election."" - Ruth Ferguson

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Media to McCain: "Do I Know You?" - The Plank

August 28 at 1:02 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

"I've read your books. No, I'm not going to define it." - Ruth Ferguson via Bookmarklet

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Political Perceptions : Why Biden's Pennyslvania Connection Is Important

August 26 at 6:38 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

"So, Pennsylvania is one battleground state that looks solid for Sen. Obama at this point, though his supporters hardly say victory is assured. “He has to close the deal, basically, with the suburbs surrounding the Philadelphia area,” says Alycee Nelson Ruley, an office holder from Morton, Pa., who is registered as a Republican but nevertheless is here this week as an Obama backer. “People have to get to know him.…It’s literally going to take his volunteers knocking on doors and connecting with people.”" - Ruth Ferguson via Bookmarklet

Linda Bergthold: CNN -- Eat Your Own Red Meat

August 26 at 6:35 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

"Claire McCaskill was terrific even though CNN didn't deem her important enough to cover." - Ruth Ferguson via Bookmarklet

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Cafe Talk | Talking Points Memo | The perfect is the enemy of the good

August 23 at 5:22 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

"If you say that the Good and Evil choices aren't different enough to matter, then (a) you're lying for rhetorical effect but it only makes you look like a moron, and (b) you really are a moron, and (c) your choices are still only Obama or McCain, and either you're going to help get McCain elected or you're going to help get Obama elected. Pick one. Throw a little hissy fit first if you find it cathartic. But then pick one of the two available options." - Ruth Ferguson via Bookmarklet

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Scott Swenson: Pro-Choice Catholic Biden Fits with New Poll of Catholic Voters

August 23 at 3:43 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

"Steve Waldman, Editor of Beliefnet.com wrote, "he's Catholic enough to appeal to Catholics, pro-life enough to avoid some Church attacks, and pro-choice enough to satisfy Hillary voters."" - Ruth Ferguson via Bookmarklet

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Obama's energy and climate advisors | Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist

August 22 at 3:20 pm - via Reshare - Link

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Daniel Burrell: Pulling Away From McCain After the Convention

August 22 at 12:43 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

"This changing paradigm offers Obama two critical opportunities in the months ahead to pull away from McCain. First, is for Obama to take ownership of a key domestic issue like the economy and "own it." Second, is to challenge McCain on the single issue where he remains strongest, thus diminishing the key rationale for his candidacy. Without the national security and foreign policy legs to stand on, the McCain candidacy goes nowhere." - Ruth Ferguson via Bookmarklet

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Sen. Obama's statement on President Musharraf's announcement of resignation

August 18 at 10:44 am - via Reshare - Link

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STATEMENT BY JOHN MCCAIN ON THE RESIGNATION OF PAKISTANI PRESIDENT MUSHARRAF

August 18 at 10:19 am - via Reshare - Link

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Vice Presidental Candidates - Election Guide 2008 - The New York Times

August 18 at 9:39 am - via Reshare - Link

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BREAKING: Democrats shut down House to go on paid vacation, Republicans stay on floor, in dark, talking Energy to American people

August 1 at 12:10 pm - via Reshare - Link

Link is broken. - Aaron Hood

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“So, do people like Obama because he's really all that? Or just because he's not Bush?”

May 22 at 8:40 pm - Link

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People like Obama because he is real - Phil Smirnov

Obama is an image. I like the guy, but I wonder how much substance is there sometimes. I wonder if people really know who he is. - David Risley

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Yeah, people now want to know Obama's dark side. And don't bother telling us there is nothing to hide. If there's nothing - we will invent smth. to be afraid of. - Phil Smirnov

People like Obama because he acts like a celebrity, we love celebrities and we hate being left out when everyone else likes someone - Daltonsbriefs

@Daltonsbriefs: If so, people will soon dislike him. If not, then you will have to come up with another reason. - Phil Smirnov

Obama has George Clooney desease. It is fatal when taken by the desperate, but kind of cheesey flavored to those who have tasted it before. - Noah David Simon

As people learn who he is, they will like him less and less - Daltonsbriefs

I think people like Obama because he "appears" to be different than most of the politicians we've seen in the past. - Vaughn

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Lets get this right kick-off

June 30 at 10:23 pm - via Reshare - Link

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“Who will be on ballot other than Barr, McCain, and Obama?”

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Obamanee, Nominee?

May 26 at 2:25 pm - Link

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