Having watched the Obama campaign for the last six weeks, I can tell you two things for certain about this election:
First, Issue #1 for the Obama campaign is the economy. Duh.
Second, Issue #1 for the majority of the electorate is also the economy. Duh.
Why then does the McCain camp seem so intent on dodging the [...]

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On Tuesday Michael Calderone at Politico produced definitive evidence of Ron Fournier’s bias in favor of John McCain. He did it by linking the Associated Press Washington Bureau chief directly to the McCain presidential campaign. Over a period of several months during 2006, Fournier discussed taking a high-level communications job with the McCain campaign. Apparently [...]

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When you think about the biggest skunk in the Grand Ole Party, does Karl Rove’s eau de turdblossom spring to mind? It should:

We have recently learned that Rove has signed a mid-six figure consulting deal with billionaire casino mogul Sheldon Adelson to oversee the activities of the right-wing shadow group Freedom’s Watch. With the National [...]

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In June, after White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and former White House counsel Harriet Miers refused to comply with congressional investigations into the U.S. Attorneys scandal, the Justice Department claimed “that senior presidential advisers are absolutely immune from congressional subpoenas.” But today, a federal judge has ruled that “there’s no legal support for [...]

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Chicago Sun-Times columnist Carol Marin today:
Women voters aren’t warming to ‘cool’ Obama
July 30, 2008
BY CAROL MARIN Sun-Times Columnist
The Obama campaign has a woman problem. How big? How small? It’s not clear, but in a close election, small can be big.
Terrific lede! Except … Obama’s polling among women actually IS quite clear, according to a Research [...]

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Washington Post reporters Dana Milbank and Jonathan Weisman gave the McCain campaign a nipple-stiffening moment today after they picked up a statement by Barack Obama, and used it, apparently, entirely out of context, presenting it for the consumption of Post readers in a way that made it look like Obama was being arrogant.
For Milbank’s part, [...]

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Reposted from DailyKOS.
There were many problems with the latest Gallup Poll, which has McCain up +4 vs Obama. But now with more information (buried deep into the 9th paragraph of USA Today’s own write up), it only gets worse. It’s potentially “startlingly” worse
It seems that Gallup according to writer Seth Colter Walls, “committed polling malpractice”, [...]

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The House Judiciary Committee just voted along strict party lines, 20-14, to hold Karl Rove in contempt of Congress for his failure to appear in response to the duly authorized subpoenas seeking his testimony in the matter of the US Attorney firings and the allegations of his interference in the prosecution of former Alabama Governor [...]

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