| 10:53 PM: | The Obama/McCain Energy Charade. Costly gas may be the thing that breaks our oil addiction. With gas prices high and Americans clamoring for relief, automakers don't need McCain's $300 million incentive to build breakthrough cars: The market incentive is far greater. US News. | |
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| 10:11 PM: | Did New York couple give $61,600 to McCain, GOP. Alice Rocchio is an office manager at the New York headquarters of the Hess Corp., drives a 1993 Chevy Cavalier and lives in an apartment in Queens, N.Y., with her husband, Pasquale, an Amtrak foreman. McClatchy. | |
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| 8:28 PM: | Cash Advantage Means Likely Senate Gains for Democrats. One reason why Democrats almost certainly will gain ground in Senate elections this November is that they have so much money to contest the many Republican-held seats that are at stake. CQ. | |
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| 8:28 PM: | Gingrich to House GOP: Stay on Message. Drill, drill, drill is the message Americans want to hear on energy and GOP candidates should stay on that message, former Speaker Newt Gingrich told House Republicans Wednesday. CQ. | |
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| 8:28 PM: | McCain Is Spending Fast to Spend Down. Republican presidential candidate John McCain outspent his Democratic rival Barack Obama in June, signaling an effort by the McCain campaign to spend down his campaign account before the Arizona senator accepts spending limits imposed by the public financing system. CQ. | |
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| 8:24 PM: | 5 lobbyists assume key posts at parties' national conventions. Five lobbyists are in key positions to organize and raise money for the political parties' conventions this year. USA Today. | |
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| 5:36 PM: | White House 'buried British intelligence on Iraq WMDs' MI6 told Tony Blair before the invasion of Iraq that a high-placed Iraqi source said that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction. The intelligence was passed to the US but was buried by the White House, according to a new book. Times (London). | |
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| 5:24 PM: | Author: Bush knew Iraq had no WMD. President Bush committed an impeachable offense by ordering the CIA to to manufacture a false pretense for the Iraq war in the form of a backdated, handwritten document linking Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda, an explosive new book claims. MSNBC. | |
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| 5:05 PM: | Paris Hilton Responds to McCain Celeb Commercial. "Hey America, I'm Paris Hilton and I'm a celebrity too. Only I'm not from the olden days and I'm not promising change like that other guy, I'm just hot. "She continues, "But then that wrinkly white-haired guy used me in his campaign ad, which I guess means that I'm running for president." ABC. | |
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| 4:08 PM: | New Obama ad takes aim at McCain's positive spot. Barack Obama's campaign responded to John McCain's first positive ad of the past several days– an ad that emphasized his independent reputation –with a new spot Tuesday that looked to tie the Arizona senator to President Bush. CNN. | |
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| 3:27 PM: | Obama: Republicans take pride in being ignorant. Watch Obama speak out against McCain and the Republican party. CNN. | |
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| 3:21 PM: | David Brooks calls Barack Obama a sojourner. The Times columnist says Americans are having a hard time connecting with the Democratic nominee. Is the problem that voters can't "place" Obama -- or that Obama doesn't know his place? Salon. | |
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| 3:21 PM: | Obama fires back at GOP. He acknowledged that Republicans are now mocking his idea. "This is the kind of thing they do," he said. "They know they're lying about what my energy plan is. But the other thing is they're making fun of a step that every expert says would absolutely reduce our oil consumption by three to four percent. It's like these guys take pride in being ignorant." MSNBC. | |
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| 3:05 PM: | They're Baaaack... Swift Boat Veterans Take Aim At Obama. Just as they sought to destroy John Kerry in 2004, the founders of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth group are aiming their guns at this season's presumptive Democratic presidential candidate. Washington Post. | |
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| 2:58 PM: | Man disrupts Obama with demand for Pledge of Allegiance. The man who spoke from the press platform declined to give his affiliation when asked about it by reporters and said only that he was "John Q. Public." Reuters. | |
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| 2:53 PM: | Kerry: McCain is 'dangerous' for the country. Kerry listed Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran and North Korea as examples of foreign policy issues that he believes Obama has had more foresight on than McCain. He also noted that even the Bush administration has fallen in sync with Obama on several positions recently. CNN. | |
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| 1:02 PM: | More women want to carpool with Obama than McCain. Women would rather carpool or go on vacation with Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama than with his Republican rival John McCain, a new poll of U.S. women voters showed on Tuesday. Reuters. | |
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| 11:28 AM: | Obama leads McCain nationally in AP-Ipsos poll. A new poll finds Barack Obama is leading John McCain nationally by 6 percentage points thanks to big leads he is enjoying among women, minorities and younger voters. AP. | |
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| 11:26 AM: | McCain outspends Obama on Olympic ads: source. U.S. Republican presidential candidate John McCain's campaign has bought $6 million in TV advertising time during the Olympic Games from NBC Universal, a source familiar with the deal said on Tuesday, topping an earlier purchase by Democratic rival Barack Obama. Reuters. | |
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| 10:19 AM: | Gallup Daily: Obama Holds 4-Point Advantage. After the presidential race tightened last week, Barack Obama has regained a modest advantage over John McCain, leading him by 47% to 43% in the latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking update. Gallup. | |
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| 10:19 AM: | Hillary Clinton sets campaign dates for Obama. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton plans to campaign for Barack Obama in Nevada and Florida this month, events expected to be her first solo campaign appearances on Obama's behalf since she lost the Democratic nomination contest. AP. | |
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| 10:11 AM: | Presidential hug for controversial senator. Republican Ted Stevens is the king of pork-barrel earmark spending. LA Times. | |
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| 8:54 AM: | Obama links energy troubles to unpopular Cheney. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama sought on Tuesday to link the troubled economy with administration energy policies. USA Today. | |
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| 8:42 AM: | Obama Making Rare Dem Push In Alaska. In what might be the fullest realization of Barack Obama's pledge to run hard in parts of the country untouched by presidential campaigning, he is mounting the most prodigious presidential effort the state has seen. CBS. | |
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| 8:40 AM: | McCain to Cheney: You're Not Welcome. The McCain campaign has quietly asked the Vice President -- compared to whom President Bush is wildly popular -- not to attend the Republican convention in St. Paul next month. Time. | |
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| 8:40 AM: | McCain up with positive TV ad. After airing four-consecutive negative ads (hitting Obama on Afghanistan and Iraq; gas prices; the Landstuhl controversy; and Britney-Paris), the McCain campaign is running a new, positive TV ad that calls McCain "the original maverick." MSNBC. | |
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| 8:38 AM: | McCain Tops Obama's Olympics Ad Buy. Ad Age is reporting that John McCain 's campaign is sinking $6M into advertising during the Olympics, compared to Barack Obama 's $5M buy. Like the Obama team's ad buy, the McCain campaign's purchase includes network and cable spots. NBC is broadcasting the Olympics on its broadcast and cable channels. Natl Journal. | |
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| 5:54 AM: | Obama heads to Ohio to talk energy. Barack Obama plans to keep the focus on energy as he visits Ohio one day after introducing a 10-year plan for weaning the U.S. off imported oil. USA Today. | |
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| 5:22 AM: | McCain Woos Bikers. The Republican candidate stops by the big Sturgis rally in South Dakota. NYT. | |
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