Election 2008 – News Stories About Election 2008 - Page 35

Secret Service Says Nobody Yelled 'Kill Him'

Oct 16, 2008 10:56 AM CDT

Secret Service Says Nobody Yelled 'Kill Him'

But Pa. reporter stands by story of angry shout during Palin rally

(Newser) - The much-repeated charge that someone in the crowd at a Sarah Palin rally in Scranton shouted “kill him” at the mention of Barack Obama is unfounded, according to a Secret Service agent. No agents in the crowd heard the shout, nor did any crowdmembers the service interviewed, reports the...

McCain Didn't Manage to Inflict Major Damage

pundit roundup

Oct 16, 2008 10:17 AM CDT

McCain Didn't Manage to Inflict Major Damage

Comeback unlikely for grumpy-seeming Republican

(Newser) - The debate last night was all about whether John McCain could pull off a game-changer; while some pundits saw his best debate performance yet, most agreed that he didn't score.

Time’s Mark Halperin liked what he saw at first, as McCain "showed off the best of himself—dedicated,

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It Ain't Over Yet: Rove

ANALYSIS

Oct 16, 2008 9:05 AM CDT

It Ain't Over Yet: Rove

Dem still has weaknesses that McCain can exploit

(Newser) - John McCain’s campaign may be down, but he’s not yet out, writes Karl Rove in the Wall Street Journal. Voters still have real doubts about Barack Obama, and McCain may have enough time yet to turn those doubts into votes for him. Some 45% of voters in one...

Violent Muslim DVD
Seen as Stealth
Attack on Obama

Oct 16, 2008 5:37 AM CDT

Violent Muslim DVD Seen as Stealth Attack on Obama

28 million DVDs inserted into newspapers in key battleground states

(Newser) - A DVD on Muslims packed with violence and inserted into newspapers in key swing states is being viewed as a not-so-subtle attack on Barack Obama, reports CNN. Entitled Obsession, the production appears to capitalize on erroneous impressions that the Democratic candidate is Muslim and may be soft on terrorism. Some...

Fired-Up Mac Couldn't Land a Punch on Obama

ANALYSIS

Oct 16, 2008 3:49 AM CDT

Fired-Up Mac Couldn't Land a Punch on Obama

Without a game-changer, Republican strikes out in third debate, and race

(Newser) - John McCain turned in his best debate performance last night but couldn't turn it into the game-changer he needed, Sam Youngman writes in The Hill. McCain was fiercer this time, but he failed to score a direct hit on his unflappable opponent and didn't come up with any new arguments...

Obama Sweeps
Final Debate: Polls

Oct 16, 2008 1:29 AM CDT

Obama Sweeps Final Debate: Polls

Dem makes it 3 for 3 with focus on economy, health care

(Newser) - Barack Obama made it a clean sweep by winning the final debate last night, according to polls taken immediately afterward. CBS found 53% of undecided voters believed Obama was the clear winner, with 22% saying John McCain came out on top, and 22% calling it a draw. Viewers' favorable opinion...

Debate Puts Spotlight
on 'Joe the Plumber'

Oct 16, 2008 12:01 AM CDT

Debate Puts Spotlight on 'Joe the Plumber'

McCain mentions make Ohio man America's most famous plumber

(Newser) - Joe Wurzelbacher found it "pretty surreal" to become the focus of last night's presidential debate, the Ohio plumber tells the AP. "Joe the Plumber" was mentioned more than 20 times in the debate—more than Iraq or the economy—as John McCain and Barack Obama sparred...

McCain to Obama:
'I'm Not President Bush'

Oct 15, 2008 8:41 PM CDT

McCain to Obama: 'I'm Not President Bush'

(Newser) - John McCain and Barack Obama met tonight in the final presidential debate, their testiest meeting so far on a range of issues from the economy to negative campaigning, NBC reports. McCain pushed back against Obama's attempts to link him to the Bush administration. “Senator Obama, I’m not President...

Working-Class Anger
May Boil Over Soon

GLOSSIES

Oct 15, 2008 7:15 PM CDT

Working-Class Anger May Boil Over Soon

(Newser) - For a while now, the divide between rich and poor has gotten bigger, but it "hasn't sparked an outright political revolt," writes Reihan Salam in the Atlantic. That could change soon. Our fragile, 20-year "consumption compromise"—the era of cheap goods and cheap credit keeping economic...

Top Evangelical Weighs Candidates

OPINION

Oct 15, 2008 4:45 PM CDT

Top Evangelical Weighs Candidates

Obama 'has given faith more thought and reflection,' Cizik writes

(Newser) - The presidential race is a contest between different sets of philosophy, writes Richard Cizik, president of the National Association of Evangelicals. In an NAE newsletter, Cizik says Barack Obama is “a thinker who sees the grays in ethical choices” while McCain opts for the “clarity of moral opposites”...

Debates Help Obama
Raise Our Comfort Level

ANALYSIS

Oct 15, 2008 4:07 PM CDT

Debates Help Obama Raise Our Comfort Level

Dem, like Reagan, used forums as a public vetting of an unfamiliar candidate

(Newser) - Barack Obama’s success in recent debates has less to do with out-talking his opponent than in letting US voters become familiar with him, the New York Times reports; Obama’s contest was as much to prove himself to an electorate uneasy with his novel candidacy. Polls show more confidence...

Obama Ad Blitz
Stifles McCain

ANALYSIS

Oct 15, 2008 1:51 PM CDT

Obama Ad Blitz Stifles McCain

Dem using massive fundraising edge to outspend GOP by as much 8-1

(Newser) - Over the past three weeks, Northern Virginia TV viewers have seen 1,342 commercials from Barack Obama … and eight from John McCain. Obama is dominating the airwaves, Politico reports, outspending McCain and the Republican National Committee as much as 8-1 in some markets, blunting GOP attacks with a sustained...

Sacramento GOP Site Takes Down Obama Hate Images

Oct 15, 2008 1:15 PM CDT

Sacramento GOP Site Takes Down Obama Hate Images

Officials voice disgust over local party linking Dem to bin Laden

(Newser) - Sacramento Republicans yesterday removed images from their website urging voters to “Waterboard Barack Obama” and declaring “The Only Difference Between Obama and Osama is a Little BS.” State party leaders condemned the content, with a spokesman for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger calling it “completely and totally inappropriate,...

Desperate Times Call for Jump Starting Next Presidency

OPINION

Oct 15, 2008 12:35 PM CDT

Desperate Times Call for Jump Starting Next Presidency

Here's how to dump Bush in Nov., not Jan.

(Newser) - In the current economic morass, the US cannot afford to wait 9 weeks to install the new president after he is elected in November, Richard Tedlow and David Ruben write in the Boston Globe. But wait—doesn’t the Constitution dictate the date of the inauguration? “Changing that would...

A Baseball Nerd Turns to
Election Stats

Oct 15, 2008 11:32 AM CDT

A Baseball Nerd Turns to Election Stats

Nate Silver was right on the Rays; he's now calling the presidency

(Newser) - Give the sheer number of political polls being produced, and the history of many of them proving wrong, it takes a seriously smart statistician (and something of a nerd) to predict the presidential race with any authority. Nate Silver, the man who "revolutionized the interpretation of baseball stats,"...

Economic Crisis Turned McCain Into a Bystander

OPINION

Oct 15, 2008 10:53 AM CDT

Economic Crisis Turned McCain Into a Bystander

This election ended when economy tanked; the rest is shouting

(Newser) - John McCain isn’t losing because he’s running an incompetent campaign, Michael Gerson writes in the Washington Post. Rather, his campaign only looks incompetent because the economy doomed him to lose. When a campaign is sinking, pundits weigh in with their pet suggestions, while insisting that “the candidate...

Bill Ayers Is
a Nice Guy

OPINION

Oct 15, 2008 9:37 AM CDT

Bill Ayers Is a Nice Guy

Republicans are waving the bloody shirt at a model citizen

(Newser) - In a desperate attempt to link Barack Obama to a 1960s culture war he’s too young to remember, John McCain has spent his last shred of political capital attacking Bill Ayers, Obama’s supposed terrorist pal. “I can personally attest to the idiocy of it all,” writes...

Joe McCain Slams Big Bro's Handlers

Oct 15, 2008 9:23 AM CDT

Joe McCain Slams Big Bro's Handlers

Let John McCain be John McCain, pleads letter

(Newser) - O brother, where art thou? Joe McCain's frustration with the direction of his older brother's campaign has erupted into an angry letter to strategists, reports the Baltimore Sun. The former journalist, who has been stumping for his brother in swing states, slammed the campaign's "counter-productive" strategy of too tightly...

Worried Florida Seniors Waver on McCain

Oct 15, 2008 8:13 AM CDT

Worried Florida Seniors Waver on McCain

Key voting bloc, once reliably red, could sink GOP in state

(Newser) - Florida's seniors aren’t looking like such a sure thing for John McCain, the Washington Post reports, casting a big shadow for the GOP over the Sunshine State. Blocks of retirees once solidly behind the GOP are now wavering, fraught with worry about disappearing pensions and climbing health care prices....

Chris Buckley on the Outs
With Dad's Mag

Oct 15, 2008 4:53 AM CDT

Chris Buckley on the Outs With Dad's Mag

National Review drops column after Obama endorsement

(Newser) - Things have gotten a little ugly between Christopher Buckley and the movement his dad pretty much founded, reports Howard Kurtz in the Washington Post. The son of legendary William F. Buckley, godfather of modern conservatism and founder of the National Review, wrote a back-page column for that magazine until last...