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John McCain today announced that he has selected Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to be his running mate and to serve as his vice president. Governor Palin is a tough executive who has demonstrated during her time in office that she is ready to be president. She has brought Republicans and Democrats t... (original story)
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True facts about Governor Palin courtesy of Factcheck.org: Palin did not cut funding for special needs education in Alaska by 62 percent. She didn’t cut it at all. In fact, she tripled per-pupil funding over just three years. She did not demand that books be banned from the Wasilla library. Some... (original story)
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Barack Obama knows that Pennsylvania voters are about more than just clinging bitterly to God and guns, they also love their "Nittaly Lions." Update: A reader reminds us that this is, in fact, Obama's third PA-related gaffe. In July of this year Senator Obama offered this backhanded compliment to th... (original story)
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...crediting Governor Palin with killing the Bridge to Nowhere: We linked last week to a web page sponsored by the Alaska Democratic Party, which attacks Sen. Ted Stevens and credits Governor Sarah Palin for killing the Bridge to Nowhere. Our post is here. Today, we learned that the web page has b... (original story)
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Today Senator Obama emerged to address the "fake controversy" created, as he explained, by the McCain campaign and our reliable allies in the media. Senator Obama blamed the media, who "decided that would be the lead story yesterday," presumably to distract voters from the real issues--like how many houses each candidate owns. Of course it wasn't Senator Obama's fault that some took his remarks about lipstick and pigs to be an attack on Governor Palin. These people were manipulated by the media and the McCain-Palin campaign. It's never Senator Obama's fault. When the media reported that he wa... (original story)
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A new poll of public opinion on national security preferences between the two parties was released over the weekend by Third Way. The conclusion was fairly straightforward--Americans favor the Republican party on security and defense issues. The reason? Voters see Democrats as indecisive in the fac... (original story)
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Barack Obama's running-mate speaks in New Hampshire today: “Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be Vice President of the United States of America. Let’s get that straight. She’s a truly close personal friend; she is qualified to be President of the United States of ... (original story)
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Obama launched into a series of vicious and personal attacks on Senator McCain today at an event in New Hampshire. As ABC notes, this was in stark contrast to the tone both campaigns took during Hurricane Gustav, and which this campaign is taking again today during Hurricane Ike: The tenor from the... (original story)
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John McCain delivered the following statement this morning in Shanksville, Pennsylvania: "No American living then should ever forget the heroism that occurred in the skies above this field on September 11, 2001. It is believed that the terrorists on United Flight 93 may have intended to crash the a... (original story)
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Maybe it's the executive experience that leads respondents to conclude that Governor Palin is more prepared than Senator Obama, or maybe people have a lower threshold for the vice presidency, but either way, Americans think Governor Palin is better suited to the job than Senator Obama. The results f... (original story)
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We think Susan Rice is an extremely effective surrogate, we're just not sure which candidate she's helping: SCARBOROUGH:...Let's go right now to Susan Rice, she is the grand poobah of the Obama campaign when it comes to foreign policy. Let's go over some of the criticisms of Barack Obama and star... (original story)
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Senator McCain speaking in Chicago last night: "We don't pay any attention to polls," when they show him behind, McCain said. "Now we're up in the polls, 5 points up in Gallup. So those polls are always exactly right ... right on the mark, totally accurate. It's funny how life is with polls." (original story)
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TO: Interested Parties RE: Empty Words And Insults Cannot Cover A Weak Record DATE: September 15, 2008 Over the last few days, the Obama campaign has watched their poll numbers falter and decided to lash out with personal attacks against Senator McCain and Governor P... (original story)
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ABC reports on an Obama campaign conference call: [Obama senior adviser Robert Gibbs] also attacked the Alaska governor for her one-time support for the so-called "bridge to nowhere," for employing a lobbying firm to get earmarks for the town of Wasilla, Alaska, and for receiving a vice presidentia... (original story)
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Governor Palin ran against an incumbent Republican governor on a platform of reform. She also ran as the mother of four children and with a husband who holds down a job as an oil worker on Alaska's North Slope. Still, the Washington Post went hunting for "scandal" and discovered that the Governor oc... (original story)