| 10:01 PM: | Gallup Daily: Obama Up by 3 on McCain. Barack Obama has a three percentage point advantage over John McCain in the latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking update of registered voters' presidential preferences, 46% to 43%. Gallup. | |
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| 9:55 PM: | Obama VP Speculation. Just ten days between now and the start of the Democratic National Convention so time is running out on a VP announcement. Let's take a look at the possibilities for a VP announcement. Open Left. | |
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| 9:49 PM: | McCain Gets Tough Questions in Colorado. Sen. John McCain usually enjoys hostile questions from the audience, though he appeared slightly irked by a man today who accused him of flip-flopping and suggested that McCain had labeled Barack Obama a traitor for his position on Iraq. WSJ. | |
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| 8:05 PM: | Happy days are here again! The Obama and Clinton campaigns come together to prove Maureen Dowd wrong. Salon. | |
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| 7:55 PM: | Lawyers' Edwards Ties Suggest Extent of Hiding Affair. The lawyers are linked through Fred Baron, a wealthy Dallas lawyer and former finance chairman for the Edwards campaign who was a key player in the campaign’s response to the scandal. NYT. | |
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| 6:20 PM: | Gorbachev: Georgia started conflict with Russia. Georgian leaders may be blaming Russia for the conflict raging in South Ossetia, but former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev said Thursday "there is no doubt" that Georgia provoked the clash. CNN. | |
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| 6:01 PM: | Jackson Browne Sues GOP And McCain Campaign. "Running on Empty," has been used by the Ohio Republican Party (not the McCain campaign) apparently against Browne's approval. HuffPost. | |
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| 5:22 PM: | FAA Tapes Reveal Drama of Obama Jet Incident. Over the plane intercom system, the pilot told Obama and campaign staff and reporters there was "a little bit of controllability issue in terms of our ability to control the aircraft in the pitch, which is the nose up and nose down mode." ABC. | |
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| 5:15 PM: | Corsi's book is 'unfit for publication' Obama campaign says. A blistering rebuttal was just released by Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's campaign to The Obama Nation, the anti-Obama book from writer Jerome Corsi -- who was part of the so-called Swift Boat attacks on Sen. John Kerry in 2004. USA Today. | |
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| 5:13 PM: | Obama campaign targets seniors. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's Minnesota campaign is trying to boost Obama's standing among a key group of voters--senior citizens. MPR. | |
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| 5:11 PM: | McCain says happy to talk up stronger dollar. U.S. presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain said Thursday he supports a strong dollar and said the currency would respond to the economy if the right policies were implemented to make it grow faster. Reuters. | |
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| 2:37 PM: | Phil Gramm Attends McCain Campaign Briefing. Ousted John McCain campaign co-chairman Phil Gramm is back with the campaign's top advisers this weekend, as the campaign gathers top supporters for a series of briefings in scenic Aspen, Colo. WSJ. | |
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| 1:29 PM: | Pastor: No 'gotcha' questions for McCain, Obama. The Rev. Rick Warren said Thursday that his upcoming forum with Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama will be aimed at asking them tough "heartland questions." CNN. | |
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| 10:21 AM: | Clinton to be nominated at Democratic convention. Hillary Clinton will be symbolically put forward as a presidential candidate at the Democratic convention later this month even though she narrowly lost the nominating battle to Barack Obama, the two campaigns said on Thursday. Reuters. | |
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| 7:17 AM: | McCain Touts Foreign Credentials As Obama Vacations. With Barack Obama on vacation, John McCain has the campaign trail and the airwaves largely to himself. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee has been displaying his foreign policy credentials on the Georgia and Russia conflict. NPR. | |
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| 7:14 AM: | Report: Giuliani Slotted for Tuesday at GOP Convention. Sources say the former New York mayor is tentatively scheduled to address the delegates in St. Paul during the second night of festivities. Giuliani was a marquee speaker on the first day of the '04 convention in Madison Square Garden. Mark Halperin. | |
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| 7:13 AM: | Republicans' Fortunes Falling In Nevada. If Republicans are hurting nationally, there may be few places where the pain is quite as acute, or has arrived as quickly, as Nevada, where a confluence of problems has left a once-potent state party in tatters, the Washington Post reports. CBS. | |
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| 7:02 AM: | We Are All Georgians. Despite a French-brokered cease-fire -- which worryingly does not refer to Georgia's territorial integrity -- Russian attacks have continued. There are credible reports of civilian killings and even ethnic cleansing as Russian troops move deeper into Georgian territory. John McCain. | |
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