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GOP Senator Trumpets Obama Connection in Ad

Gordon Smith breaks new ground, but Dem is backing incumbent's Oregon foe

(Newser) - A blue-state Republican senator up for re-election this fall is showing a serious case of candidate envy in a new ad, Talking Points Memo notes. Oregonian Gordon Smith's spot goes as follows: “Who says Gordon Smith helped lead the fight for better gas mileage and a cleaner environment? Barack...

GOP Going 'Green,' With Oil on the Side

Party's newly crafted policy backs renewable energy—plus drilling

(Newser) - An elite group of Republican senators met yesterday to craft an energy policy which the GOP claims is greener than the Democrats' plan, and more likely to control gas prices. Republicans will emphasize conservation—along with more nuclear plants and oil drilling—and have dubbed Barack Obama's opposition to increased...

Obama's No Fool: He Made Right Choice on Funding

He opens himself up to being called hypocrite; that's better than naive

(Newser) - Barack Obama may be taking flak for opting out of public financing, but he would have been foolish to do otherwise, writes Charlie Cook in the National Journal. Cook is "relieved" that a potential president is savvy enough to hang on to a huge spending advantage. And in this...

Obama Opens 12-Point Lead
 Obama Opens 12-Point Lead 
Jun 24, 2008 7:22 PM CDT

Obama Opens 12-Point Lead

Margin grows to 15 with Nader and Barr in the mix

(Newser) - Barack Obama has a 12-point lead (49%-37%) over John McCain in a new Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll. With Bob Barr and Ralph Nader in the mix, the margin grows to 15 points (48% to 33%). The poll suggests that both Democrats and independents think Obama will do the best job...

Swing States Loom Large
 Swing States Loom Large 
Analysis
Jun 24, 2008 5:35 PM CDT

Swing States Loom Large

Insiders look at which might move left or right

(Newser) - Forget the old swing-state conventional wisdom. Salon rounds up some experts and asks where the electoral map might flip in November:
  • The eastern Rust belt (Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan) is John McCain’s best hope. Ohio is traditionally weakest for Democrats, but the Michigan primary remains a problem, and aging Pennsylvanians
...

Obama Needs to Work on 'Big Idea'
 Obama Needs to Work 
 on  'Big Idea' 
OPINION
Jun 24, 2008 3:59 PM CDT

Obama Needs to Work on 'Big Idea'

To relate to voters, clearer message imperative

(Newser) - Despite Barack Obama’s remarkable policy consistency, he "remains a puzzle to many voters," writes Dorothy Wickenden in the New Yorker. It's time to articulate a governing philosophy, she argues: “He has proved his steadiness of purpose without clearly defining his priorities.What, above all, does he...

In Oil Switch, McCain Drilling for Swing-State Votes

Offshore exploration unpopular in Calif., but strikes chord on high gas prices elsewhere

(Newser) - Negative Californian reaction to John McCain’s offshore drilling flip-flop makes it appear the Republican has lost his strategic marbles, the Los Angeles Times notes—but McCain is gambling that efforts to lower gas prices will trump environmental concerns for voters in states like Michigan and Ohio. He’s “...

Fall Gitmo Trials Could Present Campaign Landmine
Fall Gitmo Trials Could Present Campaign Landmine
ANALYSIS
Jun 24, 2008 11:13 AM CDT

Fall Gitmo Trials Could Present Campaign Landmine

But whether either candidate could find advantage remains uncertain

(Newser) - If everything goes right, the trial of the five Guantanamo Bay detainees charged in connection with the 9/11 attacks could begin within days of their seventh anniversary—and just as the presidential campaign begins its most heated stretch, Politico reports. Such a development would usually be a gift to Republicans,...

Muslims Disappointed as Obama Keeps Distance

Staffers say campaign embraces 'all religions'

(Newser) - Barack Obama’s campaign, welcomed by Muslim Americans as a harbinger of religious tolerance and a more diplomatic foreign policy, has been reluctant to return their enthusiasm, the New York Times reports, leaving some leaders disappointed and angry. The candidate has appeared at churches and synagogues, but no mosques; aides...

McCain Rips Aide's Remarks on 'Helpful' Terror Attack

Aide claimed terrorism would boost campaign

(Newser) - John McCain has denounced comments from one of his most senior political advisers that a terrorist attack would be "a big advantage" to the Republican candidate politically, the Washington Post reports. Aide Charlie Black also said in an interview in Fortune that Benazir Bhutto's assassination, while "unfortunate,"...

Women Scarce on the Trail
 Women Scarce on the Trail 
Jun 23, 2008 5:26 PM CDT

Women Scarce on the Trail

Reporter finds herself the only female in the room

(Newser) - John McCain's press corps boasted but a single woman today among its two dozen men: Elizabeth Holmes, who blogs about it in the Wall Street Journal. More women were in evidence  when Hillary Clinton was stumping, because she employed several herself, Holmes writes, but now few females are left to...

GOP Has Female VP Possibles, Too
GOP Has Female VP Possibles, Too
analysis
Jun 23, 2008 4:25 PM CDT

GOP Has Female VP Possibles, Too

Mulling Alaska Gov. Palin, ex-HP exec FIorina, Texas Sen. Hutchison

(Newser) - In a post-Hillary age, a female candidate comes as less of a surprise on the national stage. Here are three women who could stand for John McCain’s vice-presidential slot, per Politico:
  • Carly Fiorina: The former Hewlett-Packard exec is already a trusted adviser and constant McCain surrogate, but she’s
...

McCain Offers $300M Prize in Assault on Car Batteries

Republican calls energy security 'the great national challenge of our time'

(Newser) - John McCain today offered a $300 million reward to the American who builds “a battery package that has the size, capacity, cost and power to leapfrog the commercially available plug-in hybrids or electric cars.” He said government had wasted energy money on special interests and failed to punish...

Vietnam Stays With McCain
 Vietnam Stays With McCain 
Jun 23, 2008 2:35 PM CDT

Vietnam Stays With McCain

Philosophy rooted in visits continues to influence candidate

(Newser) - After 5 years as a POW, John McCain returned to Vietnam in 1974 and 1985, trips that inextricably linked him with the war in American minds. They also helped color the way he thinks about foreign policy and helped him learn to make amends with onetime enemies when it meant...

TV Sees Big Bucks in Campaign
 TV Sees Big Bucks
 in Campaign 
Jun 23, 2008 1:19 PM CDT

TV Sees Big Bucks in Campaign

Ad spending bolstered by Obama's refusal of public campaign funds

(Newser) - This election season is shaping up as a windfall for television stations, with some $3 billion likely to be spent on TV ads, about 27% of that on the presidential race, reports USA Today. Democrat Barack Obama’s campaign—with no spending cap because Obama turned down public campaign funds—...

Obama Reintroduces Himself
 Obama Reintroduces Himself 
ANALYSIS
Jun 23, 2008 10:00 AM CDT

Obama Reintroduces Himself

Candidate moves to shore up weak spots, reaches out to GOP, undecided voters

(Newser) - Barack Obama is going back to basics as he launches his general election campaign, the Washington Post reports. The Democrat's first ad is a getting-to-know-you effort, recounting his biography and his values. “You can't presume that everybody was paying attention during the primary season,” explains one adviser—or,...

McCain Tackles the Serious Questions...

... Like why he owns an Usher CD, and if he could out-bowl Obama

(Newser) - Who says McCain isn't hip? Turns out he listens to Usher and "laughs out loud" when he watches The Office, reveals Bob Sansevere in the St. Paul Pioneer Press. Eschewing  details like the candidate's veep choice, Sansevere asks the tough questions—like about his favorite comic strips (he liked...

Barr Could Be the Ralph Nader of 2008: GOP

Republicans fear Libertarian will pull votes from McCain

(Newser) - A former ally has Republicans sweating the possibility that he could siphon votes away from John McCain, the AP says. Bob Barr, an outspoken ex-GOP congressman and Libertarian Party presidential nominee, is now trying to get on the ballot in 20 states in time for November. “Bob could be...

30% in US Admit to Being Racist
30% in US Admit to Being Racist
Jun 22, 2008 10:50 AM CDT

30% in US Admit to Being Racist

Most hold negative view of race relations, but 90% of whites welcome black prez

(Newser) - Three in 10 Americans admit to being racist, and more than half say US race relations are bad—but that's better than ratings in the 1990s. White and black views diverge more today, with 6 in 10 blacks calling race relations not good, and 53% of whites saying they're positive,...

Wife's Beer Co. Could Be Big Headache for McCain

Conflict-of-interest brewhaha if Mac wins

(Newser) - Cindy McCain's role as chairwoman of one of the nation’s largest beer wholesalers could turn into a thorny conflict-of-interest problem if John McCain wins the White House, the Los Angeles Times reports. Mrs. McCain's Hensley & Co.—one of its executives is John McCain's son, Andrew—takes an...

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