Archive for October 14th, 2008
October 14th, 2008
 
On the eve of the third and final presidential of the season, Barack Obama has surged to a lead of 14 percentage points — 18 points among independents — over John McCain in the latest CBS/New York Times POLL.
The survey also shows that McCain’s attacks on Obama and his choice of Sarah Palin as a running mate are both drags on the Republican ticket.
UPDATE: Two more polls (HERE and HERE) show Obama pulling away.
These are apart from the various daily tracking polls, two of which have Obama up by double-digits.
Then there are the POLLS released today that put Obama ahead in the battleground states of  Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
October 14th, 2008
 
Christopher Buckley (above), son of the late William F. Buckley, has RESIGNED under fire from the National Review, the political magazine his father founded.
The younger Buckley has endured an avalanche of ugly response from fellow conservatives for his recent endorsement of Barack Obama’s presidential candidacy.
Nice folks, those right-wingers.
October 14th, 2008
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October 14th, 2008
Check it out HERE (wait for the video to load and then click the play button on the lower left-hand side).
October 14th, 2008
Erstwhile John McCain supporter Frank Schaeffer, a former evangelist, SAYS McCain-Palin rallies ”are beginning to look, sound, feel and smell like lynch mobs.”
October 14th, 2008
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Steven Schmidt (above), protege of Karl Rove and a senior adviser to John McCain, SAYS  the GOP presidential ticket is ”disadvantaged by virtue of having an ‘R’ next to our name on the ballot in an election cycle where there’s a lot of blame at the president, a lot of blame at the Republican party, as the party that’s held the White House for the last eight years.”
That helps explain the trend among Republican congressional candidates toward avoiding or downplaying the party label on their campaign materials, as we see HEREÂ (scroll through this piece for dozens of examples).
October 14th, 2008
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October 14th, 2008
Veteran Republican strategist Alex Castellanos SAYS voters are too familiar with Barack Obama, after nearly  two years of presidential campaigning, to buy into John McCain’s attack ads.
October 14th, 2008
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Barack Obama has more or less challenged (see HERE) John McCain to say to his face what his campaign has been saying in ads and at rallies about Obama’s relationship with 1960s radical Bill Ayers.
Will McCain bring up the matter in Wednesday night’s last of the three presidential debates? I say he won’t. What say you?
UPDATE: McCain SAYS he will, in fact, bring up the subject.
