Archive for August 7th, 2008

Polls – Little Change

07Aug08

McCain has failed to take the lead, but the lead that Barack hangs on to remains negligible according to the latest polls. As Obama heads off for a week’s vacation tomorrow in advance of the Democratic convention, McCain has 10 days or so to finalize his summer defining on Barack before prime time TV and [...]


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McCain gets hipper, Barack fades

07Aug08

Proving his maverick credentials, John McCain has a new ad starring Democrats – who come to praise McCain, not to bury him.
One of the delightful things about these video bombs is that they’re allowing McCain to compete with Obama in the contest of who is hip.
The McCain campaign strategy of hammering away [...]


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To Know Him is to…

07Aug08

You remember the saying, “There are two sides to every coin?”
Barack has been the beneficiary of excessive media coverage. He’s been their rock star, their inspiration, their motivational speaker. That’s what gave him the ability, along with some well calculated policy manipulations, to beat Hillary.
The Pew Research Center reports that Obama’s mush-discussed “media dominance may [...]


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Conventional Sabotage?

07Aug08

Will Hillary, in an act of sabotage, force herself on Barack’s convention?
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton told a gathering of supporters last week that she’s looking for a “strategy” for her delegates to have their voices heard and “respected” at the Democratic National Convention where Sen. Barack Obama is expected to be nominated as the Democratic [...]


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