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Monday, Oct. 13, 2008
GENERAL NEWS HEADLINES with excerpts
Obama 50, McCain 43
... These results, based on Oct. 9-11 polling, represent a narrowing of Obama's lead over McCain. Obama led by double-digits for three consecutive days last week, but now his advantage is down to seven percentage points.
Obama 48, McCain 44
Obama slipped back into a statistical dead heat with Republican Party nominee John McCain, but still holds the advantage over McCain, the latest Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby likely voter poll shows.
In this latest report, McCain gained eight-tenths of a point, while Obama lost one full point.
McCain vows to kick Obama's 'you-know-what' in Wednesday's debate
John
McCain vowed Sunday to "whip" Democratic rival Barack Obama's
"you-know-what" when the two presidential candidates meet Wednesday in
their final televised debate.
McCain made that pledge as top advisers said he is weighing new economic proposals to help the nation weather the financial crisis. The Arizona senator refused to answer a reporter's question Sunday about what plans he might be considering.
Addressing several dozen volunteers at his campaign headquarters outside Washington, McCain promised some of his signature "straight talk" about the state of the race. National and many battleground state polls have shown him trailing Obama amid the deepening market crisis.
"We're a couple points down, OK, nationally, but we're right in this game," McCain said to cheers. "The economy has hurt us a little bit in the last week or two, but in the last few days we've seen it come back up because they want experience, they want knowledge and they want vision. We'll give that to America."
John McCain & Sarah Palin... today's headlines with excerpts
Bill Kristol: McCain should fire his campaign
What McCain needs to do is junk the whole thing and start over. Shut down the rapid responses, end the frantic e-mails, bench the spinning surrogates, stop putting up new TV and Internet ads every minute. In fact, pull all the ads — they’re doing no good anyway. Use that money for televised town halls and half-hour addresses in prime time.
And let McCain go back to what he’s been good at in the past — running as a cheerful, open and accessible candidate. Palin should follow suit. The two of them are attractive and competent politicians. They’re happy warriors and good campaigners. Set them free.
... At Wednesday night’s debate at Hofstra, McCain might want to volunteer a mild mea culpa about the extent to which the presidential race has degenerated into a shouting match. And then he can pledge to the voters that the last three weeks will feature a contest worthy of this moment in our history.
He’d enjoy it. And he might even win it.
McCain to unveil more economic policies
John McCain is considering additional economic measures aimed directly at the middle class that are likely to be rolled out this week, campaign officials said.
Among the measures being considered are tax cuts – perhaps temporary – for capital gains and dividends, the officials said...
McCain to appear on Letterman this Thursday
John McCain will appear on "The Late Show with David Letterman" Thursday, three weeks and a day after cancelling an appearance there to suspend his campaign and work on congressional bill to bailout struggling financial institutions.
Letterman ridiculed the Republican nominee on his CBS show for several nights after that for pulling out of the interview.
Barack Obama & Joe Biden... today's headlines with excerpts'
Obama gains in Iowa, Florida gives national boost
Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is ahead in a series of new polls from Florida to Iowa, gains that are helping him maintain a national lead over Republican John McCain.
Obama was on top in seven of 11 new state polls, while McCain claimed the advantage in Alabama, and the two were statistically tied in Georgia, North Carolina and one Ohio poll. The Democrat's edge, on average, is now more than 7 percentage points in national polls, according to realclearpolitics.com.
Bill Clinton stumps for Obama in Virginia
Sensing Democratic victory, Bill Clinton tonight urged
party activists to work over the next three weeks not just for Barack
Obama, but also to ensure that the party enjoys healthy majorities in
the House and Senate...
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