Election 2008

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Election's Media Winners, Losers
 Election's Media 
 Winners, Losers 
OPINION
Nov 3, 2008 11:23 AM CST

Election's Media Winners, Losers

The best and worst in a season about image

(Newser) - This election has been all about image—not just for the candidates, but for media personalities who have jumped into the fray. Scott Collins chooses its biggest success stories and failures in the Los Angeles Times:
  • Rachel Maddow, MSNBC's new commentator, is brainy, funny, and capable.
  • John King, CNN’s
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Obama, McCain Take Fight to Pages of Journal
Obama, McCain Take Fight
to Pages of Journal
OPINION
Nov 3, 2008 11:14 AM CST

Obama, McCain Take Fight to Pages of Journal

Rivals sounds familiar themes with columns in conservative newspaper

(Newser) - Barack Obama and John McCain are appearing together today on one battleground—the opinion pages of the conservative Wall Street Journal. Obama sticks almost exclusively with economics, mentioning the paper’s own reservations with McCain’s housing rescue plan. He’s also quick to remind readers in upper tax brackets...

At 11th Hour, Obama Keeps His Poker Face
 At 11th Hour, Obama 
 Keeps His Poker Face 
ANALYSIS
Nov 3, 2008 10:43 AM CST

At 11th Hour, Obama Keeps His Poker Face

Insiders say Dem feels confident after long tests of primary, general election campaigns

(Newser) - Though well aware of the enormous weight that might be about to descend on him, Barack Obama is keeping it cool, Jeff Zeleny writes in the New York Times. As the campaign enters its final frantic hours, the Democrat is talking basketball and reading about Afghanistan, hitting the gym at...

Change Has Already Been Delivered—to Campaigning

The '08 version redrew the political map and ruptured the financing system, and more

(Newser) - We can't be sure what kind of change the next president will bring, but we do know that presidential campaigns themselves will never be the same, writes Gerald F. Seib in the Wall Street Journal. Among this year’s innovations:
  • The campaigns have redrawn the political map, making previously locked
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Hints at Winner May Come Early Tomorrow Night
Hints at Winner May Come Early Tomorrow Night
ANALYSIS
Nov 3, 2008 8:36 AM CST

Hints at Winner May Come Early Tomorrow Night

Victory, or close loss, in Indiana would bode well for Obama

(Newser) - What happens early tomorrow night may hint at the final outcome, John Whitesides notes for Reuters. A victory, or close loss, in Indiana—where polls close at 6pm EST and which has gone Republican in every presidential race since 1964—would presage good things for Barack Obama; if John McCain...

Liberals, Don't Be Afraid if This Guy Wins: Kristol

A McCain win isn't the worst thing for liberalism

(Newser) - OK, so John McCain isn't likely to win, admits Bill Kristol in the New York Times. But if he does, here are things liberals could cheer (if they're not heading for the Canadian border).
  • Shouldn’t liberals love it when the underdog pulls it off? “A McCain upset victory
...

Palin: Chronicle Suppressed Obama Coal Interview

Paper: It's been online since January

(Newser) - Sarah Palin apparently believes the San Francisco Chronicle suppressed a January interview with Barack Obama, in which he threatens to bankrupt the coal industry. “You gotta listen to the tape,” Palin told an Ohio crowd yesterday. “Why is this audio tape just now surfacing? This interview was...

Polls: Obama Widens National Lead

Democrat opens up 5.8 point lead over John McCain

(Newser) - In the final hours, Barack Obama's national lead in the polls is still inching up, writes Nate Silver at Fivethirtyeight.com, to 5.8 points by late last night from 5.4 earlier in the afternoon. Silver's analysis of the latest polls also predicts that Obama stands to win more...

Americans, Swarming Polls, Use Vote to Vent Frustrations

Latest poll shows record pessimism but also enthusiasm among Americans

(Newser) - Americans are more depressed than ever about the state of the nation and unsure whether its fate can be redirected by a new president—but they’re still breaking voting records before Election Day has even arrived. Early voting is up 50% from 2004 according to polls, and two-thirds of...

GOP Braces for Big Losses
 GOP Braces for Big Losses 
Nov 3, 2008 4:50 AM CST

GOP Braces for Big Losses

Republicans in final scramble to save embattled incumbents in key races

(Newser) - The embattled GOP is preparing for heavy losses in both houses of Congress even as it wages last-minute battles for key seats across the nation, reports the New York Times. The Democrats, meanwhile, are making significant inroads into the traditionally Republican territory of suburban America, using their extra cash to...

Obama: No Exception for Illegal Aunt

He's concerned, but 'laws have to be obeyed,' he tells Couric

(Newser) - If his aunt is violating immigration laws by living in the US illegally, "those laws have to be obeyed," Barack Obama declared yesterday. Obama made the remark during an interview last night with Katie Couric, during which he also expressed concern for his aunt Zeituni Onyango of Kenya,...

Candidates Keep Punching
 Candidates Keep Punching 
Nov 3, 2008 3:11 AM CST

Candidates Keep Punching

McCain, Obama break with tradition and carry their negative campaigning into the election's final days

(Newser) - Both presidential candidates are bucking tradition and remaining on the offensive in the last days of the election—a time when campaigns usually back off and focus on positive messages, the Washington Post reports. Barack Obama is spinning Dick Cheney’s endorsement of John McCain as a troubling indication of...

Lord, Please Don't Let Fla. Ruin Things Again
Lord, Please Don't Let Fla. Ruin Things Again
OPINION
Nov 2, 2008 5:51 PM CST

Lord, Please Don't Let Fla. Ruin Things Again

Hiaasen asks God to 'deliver us from scandal'

(Newser) - Please don't let us ruin another presidential election, dear Lord. So prays Florida author and columnist Carl Hiaasen, who apologizes to God in advance should the state's voting go awry. "The possibilities are terrifying," he writes in the Miami Herald. "We've got 67 counties, which means...

What's With Those Undecideds?

The NY Times chats with some of the 4% who remain unsure

(Newser) - After a long campaign season, John McCain and Barack Obama have had ample chance to define themselves in America’s eyes—yet 4% of the country, a recent poll says, remains undecided. The New York Times spoke to a few of these “gray-state” voters to see what was holding...

He's Not 'Post-Race,' But Barack's Coming to Dinner

Americans still getting to know man who isn't post-race after all

(Newser) - If there’s anything that the candidacy of Barack Obama proved, it’s that America isn’t “post-race,” Frank Rich writes in the New York Times. White liberals in politics and the news media trip have gotten him consistently wrong, Rich writes, in trying to compare him with...

Aide: Mac 'Greatest Closer of All Time'
 Aide: 
 Mac 'Greatest 
 Closer of All Time' 
TALK SHOW ROUNDUP
Nov 2, 2008 1:41 PM CST

Aide: Mac 'Greatest Closer of All Time'

Davis predicts McCain surprise win

(Newser) - McCain campaign manager Rick Davis told Fox News Sunday that the Republicans will seize Pennsylvania and the Southwestern states for a come-from-behind finish on Tuesday, the Hill reports. “John McCain may be the greatest closer politician of all time,” he said. Other highlights from the talk shows:
  • An
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GOP Offered $10K to Prove Ayers Authored Obama Book

Goal was to prove Ayers penned 'Dreams From My Father'

(Newser) - A Republican congressman and his brother-in-law approached an Oxford philosophy don in an attempt to prove that Barack Obama's autobiography had been ghostwritten by William Ayers, the Times of London reports. Peter Millican says he was offered $10,000 to analyze Obama's Dreams From My Father and Ayers' Fugitive Days...

Ground Broken, But Not Glass Ceiling
 Ground Broken, 
 But Not Glass Ceiling 
Analysis
Nov 2, 2008 10:48 AM CST

Ground Broken, But Not Glass Ceiling

Did Clinton, Palin candidacies move feminism forward?

(Newser) - If Barack Obama wins the presidency, we’ll have broken a major barrier—but not the glass ceiling, writes Anne Kornblut in the Washington Post. Hillary Clinton claimed millions of votes and Sarah Palin energized a lackluster conservative base overnight, but as their candidacies descended into chaos, Kornblut asks "...

McCain Plays Defense With Red-State Stops

Senator digs into territory Bush largely carried in 2004

(Newser) - John McCain’s campaign map for the next few days puts him on the defensive, touring mostly states that President Bush won in 2004, Politico reports. Tomorrow’s schedule puts him in Florida, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Indiana, New Mexico, Nevada, and Arizona, all Bush states except the Keystone State. Meanwhile, Barack...

Festive Brits Blow Up Palin Effigy
Festive Brits Blow Up
Palin Effigy
Nov 2, 2008 8:20 AM CST

Festive Brits Blow Up Palin Effigy

400-year-old tradition 'roasts' politicians

(Newser) - It was all in good fun, insisted a group of Brits yesterday after they exploded an effigy of Sarah Palin, which was packed with firecrackers. The spectacular send-off was the climax of an annual bonfire celebration in the southern town of Battle, which traditionally blows up an effigy of someone...

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