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What McCain Should Do Next — Notwithstanding the hype about Barack Obama, here is where the presidential race stands: John McCain was within an average of 1.9% of his Democratic opponent in last week's daily Gallup tracking poll. — It shouldn't be this close. Sen. Obama should be way ahead.
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Weekly Standard Blog, Jonathan Martin's Blogs, The Daily Dish, Maggie's Farm, Donklephant, Eunomia, MyDD, Don Surber and TIME.com
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Guilty as Ordered — Now that was a real nail-biter. The court designed by the White House and its Congressional enablers to guarantee convictions of high-profile detainees in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba — using evidence obtained by torture and secret evidence as desired — has held its first trial.
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The Corner, Big Brass Blog, The Sundries Shack, Outside The Beltway, Stop The ACLU, Connecting.the.Dots and Daily Kos
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A Way Back to the High Road? — The first question I asked John McCain and then Barack Obama was: How do you feel about the tone and direction of the campaign so far? — No surprise. Both men pronounced themselves thoroughly frustrated by the personal bitterness and negativism they have seen …
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The New Republic, Weekly Standard Blog, The Swamp, Boston Globe, Balloon Juice, The Carpetbagger Report, Booman Tribune, MSNBC and TIME.com
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Obama adviser blames McCain ad for poll dip — By Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Washington and Edward Luce in Elkhart, Indiana — A senior adviser to Barack Obama has blamed recent attack advertisements comparing the Democratic presidential hopeful to celebrities Britney Spears and Paris Hilton …
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Win Points for McCain! — Spread John McCain's official talking points around the Web — and you could win valuable prizes! — That, in essence, is the McCain campaign's pitch to supporters to join its new online effort, one that combines the features of “AstroTurf” campaigning with the sort …
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Exploding The Edwards Mistress Scandal — The Raleigh News & Observer, which unlike other newspapers has never declared itself too good for the John Edwards love-child scandal, is first with the angle that will probably at long last propel the sordid tale into the Times and Washington Post …
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Kilpatrick will spend night in jail — Giles unmoved by mayor's apology — Judge Ronald Giles just sent Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to jail moments after the mayor pleaded for forgiveness and admitted he made an unauthorized trip to Windsor on city business.
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Race Takes Central Role in a Memphis Primary — In the culmination of a racially fraught Congressional campaign in Memphis, a black candidate is linking her liberal-leaning white primary opponent in Thursday's contest, Representative Steve Cohen, to the Ku Klux Klan in a television advertisement.
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Obama: “America is no longer what it once was” — When presidential candidates answer questions from children about why they want the job, most will give an answer that uplifts the child and the candidate. Not Barack Obama. At a campaign stop in Elkhart, Indiana, a seven-year-old girl asked …
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John McCain: My Pop-Culture Favorites — The presumptive Republican presidential nominee talks to EW about his picks in movies ("Viva Zapata!," Indiana Jones), TV shows ("Seinfeld," “The Wire"), singers (Roy Orbison, Usher), and a fictional president he admires
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GOP planning to revolt right up to Dem convention — House Republicans are gearing up to continue their revolt of Congress' adjournment for at least the next two weeks - right up to the start of the Democratic Convention in Denver - according to a memo sent Wednesday to GOP members from Minority Leader John Boehner.
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The Crypt's Blogs, GOP Leader Blog, Think Progress, #dontgo Movement, Hot Air, Commentary and Weekly Standard Blog
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500: Deadly U.S. Milestone in Afghan War — Not long after Staff Sgt. Matthew D. Blaskowski was killed by a sniper's bullet last Sept. 23 in eastern Afghanistan, his mother received an e-mail message with a link to a video on the Internet. A television reporter happened to have been filming …
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Acquaintances and Counselor Recall the Scientist's Dark Side — More than a year before the anthrax attacks that killed five people in 2001, Bruce E. Ivins told a counselor that he was interested in a young woman who lived out of town and that he had “mixed poison” that he took with him when he went to watch her play in a soccer match.
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Obama's View on Abortion May Divide Catholics — WASHINGTON — Sixteen years ago, the Democratic Party refused to allow Robert P. Casey Sr., then the governor of Pennsylvania, to speak at its national convention because his anti-abortion views, stemming from his Roman Catholic faith …
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Obama Hits Back, Too Softly For Some — Barack Obama released a television advertisement yesterday that questions John McCain's claims to be a “maverick,” and he charged in a campaign appearance that the Republican displays independence only when it suits him politically.
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SPEAKER OF THE FLOP: PELOSI SELLS 2,737 COPIES OF BOOK — The most powerful woman in the history of American politics is suffering a humiliating defeat at the nation's bookstores, sales figures show. — In her first week at market, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi sold just 2,737 copies …