17 October, 2008

McCain, Obama discuss education
Los Angeles Times – CA,USA
The last question in the final presidential campaign debate was about education, and it gave voters their best chance yet to hear what John McCain and …
latimesblogs.latimes.com/thehomeroom/
2008/10/mccain-obama-di.html

Big Ratings for McCain-Letterman Summit
E! Online – USA
Last night’s audience for David Letterman and John McCain’s summit meeting was Late Show’s biggest since Letterman and Oprah Winfrey reached an onair peace …
www.eonline.com/uberblog/b64414_big_
ratings_mccain-letterman_summit.html

Joe the Plumber a Drain for McCain?
BusinessWeek – USA
Joe the Plumber became America’s latest instant celebrity after John McCain repeatedly refered to him in the final presidential debate on Wednesday night. …
www.businessweek.com/election/2008/blog/
archives/2008/10/boy_plumbers_ha.html

Obama hits McCain on Medicare
MSNBC – USA
Returning to the issue of health care, Obama used his seventh trip to Virginia in the general election to criticize McCain for proposals that he said would …
firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/10/17/1562096.aspx

McCain’s fraud fantasia
guardian.co.uk – UK
We know election day is approaching when Republicans start screaming about voter fraud, but the McCain campaign has reached a new low and the death rattle …
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica
/2008/oct/17/johnmccain-republicans

David Letterman grills John McCain: ‘I screwed up!’
Los Angeles Times – CA,USA
Republican presidential candidate John McCain appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman last night, and had to face an inquisition about his recent …
latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedishrag/2008/10/republican-pres.html

McCain’s New York State of Mind
Newsweek – USA
So why does the opposite seem true for John McCain? Last night, McCain made two appearances here in the Big Apple: one at the Al Smith Dinner, …
blog.newsweek.com/blogs/stumper/archive/2008/
10/17/mccain-s-new-york-state-of-mind.aspx

McCain’s October surprise? Humor from the candidate and candy from …
Reuters – USA
NEW YORK – With just a few weeks to go before the US election, the John McCain campaign is still full of surprises. Cindy McCain, the Arizona senator’s wife …
blogs.reuters.com/trail08/2008/10/17/mccains-october-surprise
-humor-from-the-candidate-and-candy-from-his-wife/

McCain-Palin on defense in must-win red states
CNN – USA
John McCain and his running mate Gov. Sarah Palin are on a mad dash to blunt Sen. Barack Obama’s surging momentum and hold the states that have…
www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/17/red.states/?iref=mpstoryview

ACORN Calls on McCain Campaign to Get Out of the Gutter
MarketWatch – USA
“We call on the McCain campaign to directly answer whether they, the Republican Party or their operatives have been conspiring with the Bush Administration …
www.marketwatch.com/news/story/acorn-calls-mccain-
campaign-get/story.aspx?guid=%7B3BC7A140-7F49-427
8-B041-4B7015D606D9%7D&dist=hppr

John McCain doesn’t understand “attack” ads
By SilentPatriot
MCCAIN: “Every other ad — ever other ad was an attack ad on my health care plan. And any objective observer has said it’s not true. You’re running ads right now that say that I oppose federal funding for stem cell research. I don’t.” …
crooksandliars.com/silentpatriot/john-mccain-doesnt-understand-attack

Intrade manipulated to favor McCain chances
By SusanG
An internal investigation by the popular online market Intrade has revealed that a single investor’s purchases prompted “unusual” price swings that significantly boosted the prediction that Sen. John McCain will become president. …
feeds.dailykos.com/~r/dailykos/index/~3/xERI4ej8Mes/633689

McCain Wins – In Ratings
By By Bill Carter
Because of Senator John McCain’s make-up appearance, the Letterman show attracted 6.53 million viewers, well above Mr. Letterman’s usual total of about 3.5 million viewers.
thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/17/mccain-wins-in-ratings/

McCain’s still hasn’t gotten the hang of this “vetting” thing
By kos
A day after making Joseph Wurzelbacher famous, referencing him in the debate almost two dozen times as someone who would pay higher taxes under Barack Obama, McCain learned the fine print Thursday on the plumber’s not-so-tidy personal …
feeds.dailykos.com/~r/dailykos/index/~3/lUCuWOcC-Uo/633142

Alfred E. Smith Dinner: Obama zings McCain
By SilentPatriot
McCain has told me…the two of them had a great time together before prohibition. Wonderful stories.” “Now, recently one of John’s top advisers told The Daily News that if we keep talking about the economy, McCain’s gonna lose. …
crooksandliars.com/silentpatriot/alfred-e-smith-dinner-obama-zings-mc

16 October, 2008

McCain performs well, Obama bats away attacks
eTaiwan News – Taiwan
McCain is now defending Republican-leaning states as Obama makes progress there and pours money into TV ads. McCain planned to visit battleground states but …
www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=765232

Missouri voter sues over McCain campaign “hate speech”
Reuters – USA
Green, a 66-year-old grandmother and “semi-retired” civil rights attorney, filed the lawsuit in US District Court in Kansas City this week accusing McCain, …
blogs.reuters.com/trail08/2008/10/16/missouri-
voter-sues-over-mccain-campaign-hate-speech/

This Time, Nothing Will Keep McCain Away from Letterman
Wall Street Journal Blogs – New York,NY,USA
John McCain is all set to make up with David Letterman tonight—even if it takes a helicopter to bring him into New York City for the show. …
blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/10/16/this-time-
nothing-will-keep-mccain-away-from-letterman/

McCain at Downingtown Rally: ‘Joe the Plumber’ was Debate’s ‘Real …
ABC News – USA
ABC News’ Bret Hovell Reports: At his first rally after Wednesday night’s presidential debate, John McCain told a noontime crowd in Downingtown Penn., …
blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/10/mccain-at-dovin.html

McCain compares Obama’s tax plans to Hoover
Bizjournals.com – Charlotte,NC,USA
John McCain compared Democratic presidential rival Barack Obama’s tax and trade stances to those of Herbert Hoover in their third and final debate Wednesday …
www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/2008/10/13/daily55.html

McCain improved but Obama won debate, survey finds
The Miami Herald – FL,USA
By STEVEN THOMMA WASHINGTON — John McCain did better in his final debate with Barack Obama than he had in the two previous ones, but Obama still won it, …
www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/728860.html

McCain lumps Obama in with Washington crowd
Boston Globe – United States
In his first TV ad after the third and final presidential debate, John McCain speaks directly to the camera — and to American voters — and promises change …
www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalinte
lligence/2008/10/mccain_lumps_ob.html

Roberta McCain Brings a Lighter Moment to Campaign
Wall Street Journal Blogs – New York,NY,USA
The air blows a little lighter on the McCain campaign whenever the candidate’s 96-year-old mother, Roberta McCain, is along, and today was no exception. …
blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/10/16/roberta-
mccain-brings-a-lighter-moment-to-campaign/

McCain, Obama Head for Battleground States After Final Debate
Bloomberg – USA
By Edwin Chen Oct. 16 (Bloomberg) — Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain, their final debate behind them, today began a sprint to the Nov. …
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=2060
1070&sid=aM1DDerj5Fn8&refer=home

McCain loses blinking contest to Obama
Reuters – USA
Chalk up another bad omen for Republican presidential candidate John
McCain: He blinks more than rival Barack Obama. Candidates who blink more
than their …
blogs.reuters.com/trail08/2008/10/16/m
ccain-loses-blinking-contest-to-obama/

McCain’s Mistake?
McCain previously had expressed doubts about many Bush policies, from the tax cuts of 2001 to the administration’s easy indulgence of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in 2005. He could have continued that theme in 2007 and 2008.…
rossdouthat.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/10/mccains_mistake.php

Wash. Post uncritically quoted McCain misrepresenting Biden’s …
John McCain’s claim during the October 15 presidential debate that Sen. Joe Biden had “this cockamamie idea about dividing Iraq into three countries.” Shear and Barnes did not point out — as the Post’s Michael Abramowitz noted in a …
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latest/~3/422764662/200810160006

McCain: Women’s “Health” Just A Loophole For More Abortion
By Jed L
McCAIN: Just again, the example of the eloquence of Sen. Obama. He’s “health for the mother.” You know, that’s been stretched by the pro-abortion movement in America to mean almost anything. That’s the extreme pro-abortion position, …
feeds.dailykos.com/~r/dailykos/index/~3/4H8KJQMri5s/632295

Obama to McCain: “Your attacks say more about your campaign than …
By SilentPatriot
Those are the people, Democrats and Republicans, who have shaped my ideas and who will be surrounding me in the White House. And I think the fact that this has become such an important part of your campaign, Sen. McCain, says more about …
crooksandliars.com/silentpatriot/obama
-mccain-your-attacks-say-more-a

McCain fails, Obama is not rattled
By media@politico.com (Roger Simon)
During the final debate with McCain, Obama makes no gaffes, keeps his cool,
and stays ahead.
www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14619.html