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Obama Blames Media for Overblowing His Iraq Comments
Blaming media for their campaign woes didn't work for Bill and Hillary Clinton during the primaries. Will it work for Barack Obama now that the general ... Full Article At Newsbusters
GOP Launches First Party Attack Ad
The Republican National Committee, in the first spot of the year paid for by a major party, is airing an ad ripping Barack Obama on ... Full Article At NY Daily News - Mouth of the Potomac
Giuliani's Campaign Manager Joins McCain Team
ABC News' George Stephanopoulos Reports: ABC News has learned that the McCain campaign has hired Mike DuHaime as political director, the first new hire by Steve Schmidt in his capacity as the person in charge of day-to-day campaign... Full Article At HuffingtonPost
RNC Kicks Off General Election Ads, Puts Focus on Energy
An Independent expenditure arm of the party has begun a 10-day, $3 million ad campaign targeting Obama on Energy, portrays him as saying “... Full Article At Time - The Page
Congress gears up for final summer push
Congress gets back to work this week, but there's little time left in their abbreviated Election year. Washington (AP) — Democrats bent on showing they can govern and Republicans anxious... Full Article At CNN - Political Ticker
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Digby: Obama faces media backlash
The honeymoon is over : And [rightwingers] also accused the media of being in the tank for Obama, which is a standard “Liberal media” charge, but which, at least in some cases, was an... Full Article At Corrente
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Will Foreclosures Affect Voting Rolls?
Election officials worry that home foreclosures will pose a problem this November for voters still registered at their former address, who may be challenged at the polls, and be more likely to cast provisional ballots that might not be counted.... Full Article At CBS News - Politics
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Tell me again why we allow voting in churches?
The abstract of a paper from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ( via ): Contextual priming: Where people vote affects how they vote American voters are assigned to ... Full Article At Corrente
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Digital Bamboozle
Andrew flagged this post for me at TheNextRight, which claims that our series of posts last week on BMW Direct and their oddly inefficient direct mail fundraising is actually an attempt to 'delegitimize direct mail fundraising', which would be a bad thing in the author's eyes since this... Full Article At Talking Points Memo
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Rose faces shareholder rebellion
Business & money: M&S boss agrees to put himself up for re-Election to the board annually, to pacify investors... Full Article At Guardian Unlimited