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Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2008
GENERAL NEWS HEADLINES with excerpts
Bias??? - MSNBC substitutes milder Biden
tape,
website misrepresents it as the Seattle event
In this clip, McCain spokeswoman Nancy Pfotenhauer presses Andrea Mitchell to play all of the audio of Joe Biden's comments to supporters where he predicts an "international crisis" if Obama is elected. Mitchell says, "I think we played the whole thing." But as Breitbart.tv documented on Tuesday, the clip that Mitchell used was not from the Seattle event, but rather much milder comments made in San Francisco. MSNBC has even labeled the incorrect audio as being from the Seattle event.
McCain hits Obama on experience, tax policies
"I have been tested. Sen. Obama has not."
McCAIN:
"We've seen the wrong response from him over and over
during this campaign," Mr. McCain told a crowd of
several thousand supporters at Robert Morris University.
"He opposed the surge strategy that is bringing us
victory in Iraq and will bring us victory in
Afghanistan.
Obama accuses McCain of
'willful ignorance' on the economy
OBAMA:
"While President Bush and Sen. McCain were ready to move
heaven and earth to address the crisis on Wall Street,
the president has failed to address the crisis on Main
Street — and Sen. McCain has failed to fully acknowledge
it. Instead of common sense solutions, month after
month, they've offered little more than willful
ignorance, wishful thinking, and outdated ideology."
The presidential race tightened after the final debate, with John McCain gaining among whites and people earning less than $50,000, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll that shows McCain and Barack Obama essentially running even among likely voters in the election homestretch.
The poll, which found Obama at 44 percent and McCain at 43 percent, supports what some Republicans and Democrats privately have said in recent days: that the race narrowed after the third debate as GOP-leaning voters drifted home to their party and McCain's "Joe the plumber" analogy struck a chord...
IDB/TIPP polls:
Obama lead drops
3 points
Contrary to other polls, some of which show Obama ahead by double digits, the IBD/TIPP Poll shows a sudden tightening of Obama's lead to 3.7 from 6.0. McCain has picked up 3 points in the West and with independents, married women and those with some college. He's also gaining momentum in the suburbs, where he's gone from dead even a week ago to a 20-point lead...
Zogby:
Obama 51.6%, McCain 42.0%
ZOGBY: "These numbers, if they hold, are blowout numbers. They fit the 1980 model with Reagan's victory over Carter -- but they are happening 12 days before Reagan blasted ahead...
Global survey: world citizens prefer Obama
to McCain by 4-to-1 margin
Gallup surveys in 70 countries showed overwhelming international support for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama over his Republican rival, by a whopping 4-to-1 margin.
John McCain & Sarah Palin... today's headlines with excerpts
Gov. Rendell 'nervous' McCain could win Pennsylvania
McCain McMentum?
Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell wants Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., back in the Keystone state. He's worried Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz, could still pull off a victory there.
"I don’t want to be selfish,” Rendell told CNN. “But I’m still a little nervous, so I have asked Obama to come back. We understand he’s got demands from 20 different states, but we’d like to see him here.”
'Joe' fixes leak in McCain's Ohio, Florida campaigns
It appears “Joe the Plumber” has helped unclog John McCain’s stuck poll numbers in Ohio.
A new Rasmussen-Fox poll shows the GOP ticket squeaking ahead of Barack Obama 49-47 percent in the Buckeye State. The flip-flop in results follows plumber Joe Wurzelbacher’s doubts over Obama’s tax plan.
... The same poll places McCain ahead in Florida 49-48. Both battleground states are now too close to call, with Florida’s 27 electoral votes the big bonus prize.
Palin supports federal marriage amendment
Sarah Palin has signaled support for a federal marriage amendment defining marriage as between a man and woman – a position inconsistent with Sen. John McCain, who has opposed such a measure, as well as with her own previously stated position of letting states decide on such issues.
RNC shells out $150,000 for Palin clothing
The Republican National Committee has spent more than $150,000 to
clothe and accessorize vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her
family since her surprise pick by John McCain in late August...
Barack Obama & Joe Biden... today's headlines with excerpts'
Obama pledges tax cut for 'Joe the Plumber'
Obama is not ceding the working man's vote. Throughout his tour that took him across Central and South Florida, he rejected the Republican charge that he's a socialist.
''He's decided to completely make up, just fabricate this notion that I've been attacking Joe the Plumber,'' Obama said. ``I got nothing but love for Joe the Plumber; that's why I want to give him a tax cut.''
Obama tweaks tax plan to rebut McCain
Facing criticism from John McCain that his tax plan constitutes "welfare," Barack Obama recently added a work requirement to one of his proposals.
"They started saying this was welfare," said Obama adviser Austan Goolsbee. "So, just so they would absolutely not be able to say that, we decided that for the last two percent we'll simply add a work requirement."...
Obama's anti-robocall robocall
Obama's out with a robocall attacking McCain's attack robocalls. TPM has the Wisconsin version (.wav):
"I live in Green Bay and, like you, I've been getting sleazy phone calls and mail from John McCain and his supporters viciously -- and falsely -- attacking Barack Obama," says the caller. "I used to support John McCain because he honorably served our country -- but this year he's running a dishonorable campaign. We know McCain will continue many of Bush's policies, and now he's using George Bush's divisive tactics. In fact, he hired the Bush strategists whose attacks even McCain once called hateful."
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