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Obama rides a wave of bad economic news
Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700
Surveys indicate the financial crisis has drowned out other concerns, pulling even longtime Republican voters away from John McCain. For months, Mark Wagner stuck by John McCain, even as the economy stalled and other Americans came to blame Republican leadership. Then, about three weeks ago, the deepening economic downturn pushed him to reconsider.
John McCain and Sarah Palin try new tactics
Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700
He blasts Obama's spending proposals; she goes after the Democrat's stance on abortion. After a week of increasingly nasty rallies in which John McCain and Sarah Palin hammered Democratic rival Barack Obama over his "association" with a 1960s-era radical, the Republican candidates changed tactics Saturday during campaign swings through two presidential battleground states. Palin launched a new front in the culture wars here, attacking Obama on abortion, while in Iowa, McCain concentrated on a critique of Obama's spending proposals.
McCain campaign sees Iowa as still in play
Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700
Behind in polls there, the GOP nominee tells supporters at a Davenport rally that he'll fight harder. Palin's appeal to evangelicals may help. But some political experts are dubious. With little more than three weeks before election day, John McCain made the surprising decision to campaign Saturday in Iowa -- a state he largely spurned in the 2000 and 2008 presidential caucuses and where he is trailing his Democratic opponent, Barack Obama, by more than 10 percentage points.
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The Editors: The better candidate for 2008.
The Editors Thu, 02 Oct 2008 04:00:00 -0000
Never in living memory has an election been more critical than the one fast approaching--that’s the quadrennial cliché, as expected as the balloons and the bombast. And yet when has it ever felt so urgently true? When have so many Americans had so clear a sense that a Presidency . . .
Hendrik Hertzberg on the big talkers
Hendrik Hertzberg Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:00:00 -0000
A couple of weeks before August 28th--the night that Barack Obama accepted the Democratic nomination for President, in a Denver football stadium--Stuart Shepard, the digital-media director of the lobbying arm of Focus on the Family, one of the most powerful organizations on the religious right, posed a . . .
Peter J. Boyer: Can the Democrats get a foothold on the religious vote?
Peter J. Boyer Mon, 01 Sep 2008 04:00:00 -0000
In the autumn of 1998, when Karl Rove was contriving to make Governor George W. Bush President and to build a lasting Republican majority, he came upon “The Catholic Voter Project,” a study of voting behavior in national elections since the Kennedy-Nixon contest of 1960. Catholics make up more . . .
washingtonpost.com - Politics
Issue of Race Creeps Into Campaign
Anne E. Kornblut Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400
In the first presidential campaign involving an African American nominee of a major party, both candidates have agreed on this much: They would rather not dwell on the subject of race.
U.S. Drops North Korea From Terrorism List
Glenn Kessler Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400
The Bush administration removed North Korea from its terrorism blacklist yesterday, a move that was aimed at salvaging a sputtering nuclear disarmament deal but that sparked internal controversy, infuriated Japan and drew some Republican opposition.
Sentencing Panel Mulls Alternatives to Prison
Darryl Fears Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400
As the nation's inmate population climbs toward 2.5 million, the U.S. Sentencing Commission is considering alternatives to prison for some offenders, including treatment programs for nonviolent drug users and employment training for minor parole violators.
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