Presidential Campaign

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America's Pastime: Politics or Baseball?

Lloyd Garver | Posted 11.25.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Politics, Obama, Baseball, 2008 Election, Mccain, Presidential Campaign, World Series, Tampa Bay Rays, Philadelphia Phillies, Socialists, Entertainment News

Right when I think it's possible that people could be turned off by the long campaign, along comes America's Pastime to take our minds off politics.

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Global Obama: Big Opportunities, Bigger Challenges

William Bradley | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Russia, Venezuela, Britain, Tunisia, Opec, Missile Shield, Iran, Georgia, Vladimir Putin, Qatar, Ukraine, Arctic, Boris Johnson, Libya, Energy Future, Barack Obama, Presidential Campaign, Germany, Petro Rush, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Oil, Dmitry Medvedev, Iraq, Israel, John McCain, Natural Gas, John F. Kennedy, Joe Biden, Persian Gulf, Middle East, Afghanistan, Czech Republic, Poland, Politics News

If he wins, Obama will have the global popularity that no American president has had in a great many years.

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McCainnibalism

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics

The interesting thing about McCainnibalism is that it does not stop with trying to obliterate members outside of the campaign. The political gorging begins to happen on the inside.

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McCain Campaign Tried Using Assault Hoax to Slime Obama

Erik Ose | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics

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According to one of the actual police reports documenting the charade's unraveling, Ashley Todd says she can't remember whether she mutilated her own face, or had someone else do it.

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The Lady Who Doesn't Like Polar Bears

Tom Hayden | Posted 10.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Environment, Presidential Campaign, Palin, Polar Bears, Sarah Palin, Politics News

Sarah Palin doesn't believe in evolution either. She believes instead that everything around us was created according to God's plan.

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The Monster is Dying

Mary Mapes | Posted 11.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Monster Films, Monster, Monster Movies, Presidential Campaign, Politics News

This whole two-year presidential campaign is starting to feel a lot like the climactic death scene at the end of a 1950s monster movie.

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McCain and Palin Inciting Violence in North Carolina

Erik Ose | Posted 11.22.2008 | Politics

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In the wake of McCain-Palin visits to North Carolina, a string of election season crimes have occurred around the state involving violence, vandalism, and harassment.

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TV Ad Wars: McCain's "Joe The Plumber" Campaign (Seriously)

William Bradley | Posted 11.21.2008 | Media

Read More: Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, Presidential Campaign, George W. Bush, Mad Men, Jeremiah Wright, Weather Underground, TV Advertising, John McCain, Joe Biden, Sarah Palin, Media News

McCain is going with Joe the Plumber as the advertising centerpiece of his campaign and absent some fantastic new character attack against Obama, it's his best shot left at an economic message.

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Is the McCain Campaign Being Secretly Run by Democrats?

Tom D'Antoni | Posted 11.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Presidential Campaign, John McCain, Obama, Mccain, Insanity, Palin, Politics News

The Republicans appear to be following a script written by people who want to see them not only lose, but lose big and be humiliated and reviled at the same time.

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Inside The "Bradley Effect"

William Bradley | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Tom Bradley, California, Barack Obama, Presidential Campaign, National Rifle Association, Jerry Brown, Los Angeles, Gun Control, George Deukmejian, John McCain, Politics News

It's clear that the problem lay not with significant numbers of voters lying to pollsters, but with the nature of the campaign itself. The "Bradley effect" was created by faulty polling.

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The "Manchurian Candidate" Fantasy: Paranoia And Irony Abound

William Bradley | Posted 11.15.2008 | Media

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There is a further irony, in that there actually is a candidate in this race who was not born in America and who was a prisoner of war. That would be, of course, John McCain.

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The Beat (It) Goes On: A Conservative Stampede

Jerry Weissman | Posted 11.15.2008 | Media

Read More: White House, The Colbert Report, Heather Mac Donald, National Review, John McCain, Peggy Noonan, The Atlantic Magazine, Kathleen Parker, Charles Dickens, Presidential Campaign, Wall Street Journal, Brack Obama, Sarah Palin, Weekly Standard, Byron York, Journalism, National Review Online, Conservatives, George Will, David Freddoso, David Brooks, New York Post, William F. Buckley, Washington Post, Christopher Buckley, William Kristol, A Tale of Two Cities, Colbert Report, Media News

The McCain-Palin ticket has had a severe impact on the writers of the right and sent them running for the hills. Witness the crescendo of the stampede.

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We Don't Need to Fight Dirty

Jeannie Ralston | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hate-Mongering, Mccain Dirty Politics, Dirty Politics, Presidential Campaign, Palin, Obama, Mccain, Hate Speech, Barack Obama, Politics News

What Obama knows and what we can emulate is this: we can offer a poised defense, but we don't have to get down and dirty with the Republicans we encounter.

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Who is the Real Sarah Palin?

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics

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Is Sarah Palin the evangelical, do-gooder "hockey mom"? Or is she a "She-Bush" megalomaniac who wields power behind the scenes by personal whim? And lies about it?

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KCRW's Left, Right & Center 10.10.08/ECONOMY!

Huff Radio | Posted 11.11.2008 | Media

Read More: Free Markets, John McCain, Wall Street, Meltdown, Presidential Campaign, Credit Crisis, Barack Obama, Adam Smith, Economy, Presidential Debates, Media News

This week, Arianna, Matthew, Robert and Tony debate the debate and the merits of capitalism.

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It's Over

Bill George | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics

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Just as Hillary Clinton learned in the primaries, it is extremely difficult to compete simultaneously with Obama's unwavering strategy and his unrelenting organization on the ground.

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Erratic and Angry: Politics As Usual, or Early Alzheimer's?

Donna Fish | Posted 11.07.2008 | Home

Read More: John McCain, Mccain, Presidential Campaign, Early Alzheimer's, Home News

A few weeks ago a friend and I were discussing, what else, politics and she said: "McCain is sounding exactly like my Dad did in the earliest stage of...

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Obama Finally Fastest In TV Ad Wars

William Bradley | Posted 11.06.2008 | Media

Read More: Negative Advertising, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sarah Palin Vp Pick, Barack Obama, Presidential Campaign, Charles Keating, Bill Ayers, TV Advertising, Steve Schmidt, John McCain, Media News

It's all negative all the time now in the TV ad wars. For once, Obama has stolen a march on McCain in the campaign hit parade. And his attack strategy seems to be much more on the axis of decision for this election.

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Signs of Growing Friction Between McCain and Palin

Erik Ose | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics

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Palin is in the driver's seat and plans to stay there. Her take-no-prisoners nasty streak and extreme right wing views have found kindred spirits now that she's fully staffed up with veterans of Bush.

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12 Reasons Why McCain Can Still Win

William Bradley | Posted 11.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Russia, John McCain, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Barack Obama, Russia-Georgia War, Presidential Campaign, Sarah Palin, Joe Biden, Georgia, Mike Murphy, TV Advertising, Steve Schmidt, Osama Bin Laden, Nuclear War, Presidential Debate, Vice Presidential Debate, Keith Olbermann, Msnbc, Politics News

So, you think it looks really good for Barack Obama. Well, maybe so. Yet, Obama can still lose this. Though I'm not planning to head over to Vegas to shoot craps (John McCain's favorite) on that deal.

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That Foreign Policy Debate We're Not Having

William Bradley | Posted 10.27.2008 | Politics

The problem with foreign policy debates is that we end up debating symptoms -- illegal immigration from Mexico, a surge in Iraq -- rather than systems.

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Behind Team McCain's Sudden Gambit

William Bradley | Posted 10.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Barack Obama, Presidential Campaign, George W. Bush, Financial Crisis, TV Advertising, Steve Schmidt, John McCain, Adam Mendelsohn, Politics News

This is an attempted reboot in a losing scenario. McCain has been all over the lot on the financial crisis. He is a staunch deregulationist, at a moment in history in which it is clear that that approach has failed.

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Distract and Detract: Team McCain Follows Form In Crisis

William Bradley | Posted 10.23.2008 | Media

Read More: Rick Davis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Barack Obama, Presidential Campaign, Oil, Gold, Financial Crisis, Media, TV Advertising, Steve Schmidt, Global Markets, John McCain, John McCain Lies, John McCain Attack Ads, Attack Ads, Media News

In a political crisis, Team McCain moves to change the subject and stay away from what may be unfriendly issues and instead switches back to a negative focus on Obama's personality and image.

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Our Hobbesian Media Culture May Trump Obama's Big Issue Opportunity

William Bradley | Posted 10.20.2008 | Media

Read More: Financial Crisis, John McCain, TV Advertising, Steve Schmidt, Presidential Campaign, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Media News

The absence of clarity around Obama's policy on the present crisis presents opportunity in the Hobbesian media universe. Vagueness can be cast as anything. In this case, probably something bad.

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