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Friday, Sept. 5, 2008
GENERAL NEWS HEADLINES with excerpts
Rasmussen:
Palin more popular than Obama and
McCain!
Now,
following a Vice Presidential acceptance speech viewed
live by more than 40 million people, Palin is viewed
favorably by 58% of American voters. The latest
Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that
37% hold an unfavorable view of the self-described
hockey mom.
The figures include 40% with a Very Favorable opinion of Palin and 18% with a Very Unfavorable view...
... The new data also shows significant increases in the number who say McCain made the right choice and the number who say Palin is ready to be President. Generally, John McCain’s choice of Palin earns slightly better reviews than Barack Obama’s choice of Joe Biden.
... most stunning is the fact that Palin’s favorable ratings are now a point higher than either man at the top of the Presidential tickets this year. As of Friday morning, Obama and McCain are each viewed favorably by 57% of voters. Biden is viewed favorably by 48%.
Oprah Winfrey: "At the beginning of this Presidential campaign when I decided that I was going to take my first public stance in support of a candidate, I made the decision not to use my show as a platform for any of the candidates. I agree that Sarah Palin would be a fantastic interview, and I would love to have her on after the campaign is over."
Matt Drudge: "Oprah Winfrey may have introduced Democrat Barack Obama to the women of America -- but the talkshow queen is not rushing to embrace the first woman on a Republican presidential ticket!"
The presidential race between Barack Obama and John McCain is now even
at 42 percent, according to a new CBS News poll conducted
Monday-Wednesday of this week. Twelve percent are undecided according
to the poll, and one percent said they wouldn't vote.
This is in contrast to a poll conducted last weekend, where the
Obama-Biden ticket led McCain-Palin by eight points, 48 percent to 40
percent.
GOP Convention coverage:
McCain's ratings for speech
beat Obama's!
The preliminary Nielsen ratings indicate that 26% more people watched McCain's speech than Obama's.
John McCain: "I have the scars..."
[EXCERPTS]
I'm
not running for president because I think I'm blessed
with such personal greatness that history has anointed
me to save our country in its hour of need.
I will reach out my hand to anyone to help me get this country moving again. I have that record and the scars to prove it. Senator Obama does not.
I fell in love with my country when I was a prisoner in someone else's. I loved it not just for the many comforts of life here. I loved it for its decency; for its faith in the wisdom, justice and goodness of its people. I loved it because it was not just a place, but an idea, a cause worth fighting for. I was never the same again. I wasn't my own man anymore. I was my country's.
In the end, it matters less that you can fight. What you fight for is the real test
Stand up, stand up, stand up and fight. Nothing is inevitable here. We're Americans, and we never give up. We never quit. We never hide from history. We make history.
ABC's Jake Tapper on Palin ratings:
"These are numbers that will scare and unnerve Democrats"
"More than 37.2 million people tuned in for coverage of the third night of the 2008 Republican National Convention ... just 1.1 million fewer viewers than Barack Obama’s record-breaking speech on day four of the Democratic convention."
This included a big female audience of 19.5 million women — 5.2 million more women than tuned in for Sen. Hillary Clinton's, D-N.Y., speech of day two of the Democratic convention and 6.9 million more than watched Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., accept the Democrats’ vice presidential nomination.
These are numbers that will scare and unnerve Democrats.
THE CANDIDATES:
John McCain & Sarah Palin... today's headlines with excerpts
McCain camp to leave Convention with $200 million
With an increase in fundraising following McCain's choice of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, Republicans say they are no longer in danger of being swamped by Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama's campaign cash.
``The money game is essentially off the table now,'' said Eddie Mahe, a former deputy chairman of the Republican National Committee.
Barack Obama & Joe Biden... today's headlines with excerpts'
Obama's Palin strategy: sit and wait
As Sarah Palin transforms herself from
obscure Alaska governor to
the Republican Party's newest rising star and most
effective attack dog, Barack Obama's campaign will
largely sit back, watch her rise and hope she falls.
Mr. O’Reilly then demanded that his guest admit that he was wrong to oppose the military surge. Mr. Obama didn’t give in; he repeated previous qualifications but did go farther, and less equivocally, than before in acknowledging that the surge had worked. “It’s succeeded beyond our wildest dreams,” he said. Mr. Obama is known for the subtlety and nuance of his answers; Mr. O’Reilly has no patience for either. And accordingly, they had a bracing exchange, in what was the first of four segments to be spread over four days.
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