4 October, 2008

Obama Uses Health Care As New Front in McCain Attack
ABC News – USA
ABC News’ John Berman, Sunlen Miller, Ursula Fahy and David Chalian report: After days of focusing on the financial crisis facing the country, Barack Obama …
blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/10/obama-uses-heal.html

Obama savages McCain on health care with one month to go
AFP
NEWPORT NEWS, Virginia (AFP) — Exactly one month before the presidential vote, Democrat Barack Obama Saturday accused Republican rival John McCain of …
afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5ggNbIadxpUVJLH-2fc-NO4zBOrfQ

US Election: How Barack Obama and John McCain have attacked each other
Telegraph.co.uk – United Kingdom
There has been no shortage of robust attacks on one another by Barack Obama and John McCain during the presidential election campaign so far. …
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/313574
8/US-Election-How-Barack-Obama-and-John-McCain-have-
attacked-each-other.html

Obama Calls McCain’s Health Care Plan “Radical”
CBS News – New York,NY,USA
(CHICAGO) Barack Obama will bring health care back into the spotlight today, after weeks of heavy emphasis on the economy. At a rally in Newport News, …
www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/10/04/pol
itics/fromtheroad/entry4501521.shtml

Obama seeks to boost new voters
BBC News – UK
US Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama is holding a rally in the state of Virginia, ahead of a Monday deadline for voters to register there.…
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7652567.stm

Tough talk will target Obama
The Age – Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
JOHN McCain and his Republican allies are readying a newly aggressive assault on Barack Obama’s character, believing that to win the US election they must …
www.theage.com.au/world/tough-talk
-will-target-obama-20081004-4tx5.html

John McCain attacks Barack Obama’s character in bid to rescue campaign
Telegraph.co.uk – United Kingdom
John McCain will try to revive his flagging presidential prospects by launching an all-out character assassination on Barack Obama, branding his Democratic …
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/john
mccain/3134631/John-McCain-attacks-Barack-Obamas-
character-in-bid-to-rescue-campaign.html

What must happen for McCain to win
Globe and Mail – Canada
The latest numbers are almost terminally grim: Both the Rasmussen and Gallup daily tracking polls show Mr. Obama ahead by about six points, and that number …
www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20081004.
CAMPAIGNIBBIT04/TPStory/National/columnists

Obama leads as McCain shifts gears
Chicago Tribune – United States
John McCain and Barack Obama enter the last 30 days of the campaign with Obama clinging to a small but significant lead and McCain anxious to change the …
www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/
chi-campaign-sprint-bdoct05,0,1587067.story

Barack Obama still holds slim lead, state polls show
Los Angeles Times – CA,USA
Obama’s support edges upward, with fewer voters remaining undecided. Some McCain backers voice concern about the Democrat’s advantage. …
www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/
la-na-campaign4-2008oct04,0,3310353.story

Obama stock: SunPower (SPWR) should shine
By Steven Halpern
“Through the campaign season, Barack Obama has spoken at length about the need to boost spending on alternative energy; if he was elected, that should be good news for solar power company SunPower Corp. (NASDAQ: SPWR),” says Roger …
www.bloggingstocks.com/2008/10/04/
obama-stock-sunpower-spwr-should-shine/

Video: The obligatory “Obama Youth” fraternity
By tips@hotair.com (Hot Air Network, LLC)
I’ve been flooded with e-mails to start a thread on the video of the so-called Obama Youth fraternity, and never let it be said that I kept Hot Air readers from a forum that will undoubtedly pile up hundreds of comments. [. …
www.hotair.com/archives/2008/10/04/
video-the-obligatory-obama-youth-fraternity/

I’ll take
By ichctcf
Obama Pictures and McCain Pictures. I’ll take “Things I Know Nothing About” for 200. (Sarah Palin). picture: dunno source, via our lol builder. lol caption: xunkatc3. “ Recaption This.
punditkitchen.com/2008/10/04/political
-pictures-sarah-palin-debate-jeopardy/

Obama hitting McCain on health care
In a wide-ranging attack on McCain, Obama’s campaign is using broadcast ads and mailings to criticize the Republican’s health care proposal. The candidate himself is expected to hit the topic during a midday appearance in Newport News, …
www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2
008/10/obama_hitting_mccain_on_health.html

Obama tackles McCain’s ‘radical’ healthcare plan
By Steve Benen
OBAMA TACKLES MCCAIN’S ‘RADICAL’ HEALTHCARE PLAN… If you’ve been waiting for the healthcare debate to become a more central focus of the presidential campaign, you’ll be thrilled with the Obama campaign’s new push. …
www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2008_10/015027.php

3 October, 2008

Obama Seizes on Bleak Jobs Report
New York Times – United States
If the government’s latest jobs report on Friday seemed scripted for Senator Barack Obama’s speech here, it was. After forecasting the report in speeches …
thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/03/
obama-seizes-on-bleak-jobs-report/

Obama slams McCain with jobs report
MSNBC – USA
Barack Obama applauded his running mate’s performance in last night’s debate, saying that the “Scranton boy done good” and contrasting his rival’s positions …
firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/10/03/1489499.aspx

New Yorker endorses Obama
Boston Globe – United States
The New Yorker was not a favorite on Barack Obama’s reading list for a while after a notorious cover showed him in Arabic garb fist-bumping his wife in the …
www.boston.com/news/politics/political
intelligence/2008/10/new_yorker_endo.html

Springsteen adds more Obama dates
Hartford Courant – United States
Springsteen fan site Backstreets.com reports the Boss is expected to play a free acoustic show tomorrow afternoon at an Obama rally in Philadelphia (ticket …
blogs.courant.com/eric_danton_sound_check/2
008/10/springsteen-adds-more-obama-da.html

Obama calls Biden, “A Scranton Boy Done Good.”
ABC News – USA
Barack Obama heaped the praise on his running mate, Joe Biden, on Friday, lauding his debate performance against Alaska governor Sarah Palin; “How about hat …
blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/10/obama-calls-bid.html

McCain, Obama React to Job Loss Data
Voice of America – USA
John McCain, participates in women’s town hall style campaign event in Denver, 02 Oct 2008 Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama released …
voanews.com/english/2008-10-03-voa27.cfm

Is John McCain Doomed To Lose To Barack Obama?
CBS News – New York,NY,USA
Check this Associated Press filing from today: “Obama hammered McCain’s economic record during a rally in Michigan, a state struggling with the country’s …
www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/03/us
news/whispers/main4498796.shtml

Obama, McCain Seize on Jobless Data to Assail Foe (Update1)
Bloomberg – USA
By Julianna Goldman and Edwin Chen Oct. 3 (Bloomberg) — Presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain pounced on a rise in job losses to assail …
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=2
0601070&sid=aDz05ZFGEwpo&refer=home

Is John McCain Conceding Michigan to Barack Obama?
FOXNews – USA
This is — polls in a critical swing state bring more good news for Obama. But do these polls at this point in the race mean anything? …
www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,432241,00.html

Obama Camp Turns Debate Moment Into Ad
CBS News – New York,NY,USA
Barack Obama’s campaign is out with a new ad, to run on national cable outlets, highlighting Joe Biden’s criticism of John McCain’s health care plan in the …
www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/10/03/
politics/horserace/entry4498245.shtml

Obama Adds Field Office In Nebraska
Some evidence that the Obama campaign is heavily targeting the state’s second congressional district: they’ve just opened another field office in Omaha.
marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2
008/10/obama_adds_field_office_in_neb.php

Obama trumps McCain in people power, but to what gain?
By editorial
Senator Obama has 15 offices across the state; Senator McCain has 12– counting Republican Party quarters. The Democratic camp says it has roughly 33 field organizers and 100 people on the campaign payroll; McCain’s side reports nine …
features.csmonitor.com/politics/2008/10/02/obama-
trumps-mccain-in-people-power-but-to-what-gain/

10/3 Daily Kos R2K Tracking Poll: Obama 51 , McCain 40
By DemFromCT
Today’s Daily Kos Research 2000 tracking poll has Obama up over McCain 51-40. All trackers are data from three days prior to posting, with the R2K numbers from today (yesterday’s numbers in parentheses) and the other trackers from …
feeds.dailykos.com/~r/dailykos/index/~3/YdmOV5hb7U8/617884

ABC’s Snow quoted Palin attacking Obama over troop-funding vote …
Barack Obama voted for “[c]utting off funding for our troops while in a war zone.” But, while Snow said Obama “vot[ed] to cut off funding for US troops in Iraq unless there was a firm timetable for withdrawal,” she did not report that …
feeds.mediamatters.org/~r/mediamatter
s/latest/~3/409865636/200810020031

New Obama Ad In South Stars Bluegrass Legend Saying Obama Is “A …
By Greg Sargent
A Virginia Democrats sends over a new radio spot that Obama is airing in the southern part of the state — it stars homegrown bluegrass legend Ralph Stanley vouching for Obama’s values and character to the tune of some banjo pickin’ in …
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/
2008/10/new_obama_ad_in_south_stars_bl.php