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Media continue to uncritically report McCain campaign attacks on their coverage

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Media Matters - Nov. 05 (News Analysis) - A Media Matters review of the media's coverage of two stories negatively affecting or reflecting on Sen. Barack Obama -- his ties to Bill Ayers and Antoin Rezko -- and two stories negatively affecting or reflecting on Sen. John McCain -- his reported facilitation of land deals that benefited donors and his association with G. Gordon Liddy -- found that, while the five major newspapers frequently mentioned Obama's ties to Ayers and Rezko throughout the 2008 election cycle, they rarely mentioned McCain's reported facilitation of land deals that benefited donors, and they almost completely ignored McCain's association with Liddy.

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I'm voting for Barack Obama

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The American Conservative - By Francis Fukuyama - Oct. 30 (Opinion) - I'm voting for Barack Obama this November for a very simple reason. It is hard to imagine a more disastrous presidency than that of George W. Bush. It was bad enough that he launched an unnecessary war and undermined the standing of the United States throughout the world in his first term.

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Confusing North Carolina Ballot Leaves off Votes for President

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Diane Tucker - Oct. 27 (Investigative Report) - In North Carolina, a straight-party vote counter-intuitively does not include a vote for president. Voters must make a separate mark under the Presidential Contest box. On Election Day 2008, there will probably be more voters than there were in 2004, and many of them will be first-time voters. "I believe as many as 100,000 votes for president could be lost this time around," [Lawrence Norden, an attorney at the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law] told OffTheBus.

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Drinking the ACORN Kool-Aid: How Cries of Voter Fraud Cover Up GOP Elections Theft

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Greg Palast: - Oct. 28 (Opinion) - Jailed GOP activist Jack Abramoff and his fellow convict, Congressman Bob Ney, wrote the most sinister provisions of the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) which Congress passed in 2002 creating a series of diabolically cunning new voting impediments. HAVA, for example, allows state voting officials to purge tens of thousands of voters from the polls using algorithms and voter ID requirements that disproportionately disenfranchise black, Hispanic and minority voters, and other Democratic demographics including senior citizens and young people.

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How Will Obama or McCain Power the Nation?

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Daily Yonder - By Beth Wellington - Nov. 03 (News Analysis) - Like other Americans, folks in rural areas are examining senators Barack Obama and John McCain in the light of fears about a faltering economy and with high gas prices a recent memory. Many worry that the U.S. has been delaying action on climate change, with possible dire effects on agriculture and forestry. And beyond the general concern about the carbon footprint of coal-fired electric plants, those of us in Appalachia face increasing destruction of our home places from mining as companies use mountaintop-removal to raze the mountains for coal -- what has been called “strip mining on steroids.”

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Republicans fear the loss of their only weapon left: the filibuster

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Independent - By Rupert Cornwell - Oct. 27 (News Analysis) - That reluctance is understandable. Invariably, a party that has controlled both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue has over-reached, even without a filibuster-proof Senate majority, which last happened between 1977 and 1979, the first two years of Jimmy Carter's unhappy presidency. In the early 1990s, during the first Clinton administration, Democrats controlled White House and Congress, only to come a cropper in the mid-term elections of 1994. For most of the first six years of George W Bush, Republicans were in the same position. But they too over-reached, and nemesis duly arrived at the November 2006 midterms.

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Cover this! Inside the nastiest ’08 rumors

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Ben Smith - Oct. 30 (News Report) - Now, as the campaign enters its last week, partisans have deluged reporters with e-mails and vented on blogs about why the media is suppressing stories about one candidate or the other. The unwritten Obama stories supposedly concern his Americanness: They raise doubts about his birth, his citizenship and his patriotism. The un-penned anti-McCain stories go to the quality he's made central to his career: honor. They suggest he's used foul language to his wife and that his military record isn't what it seems.

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The Cost-Benefit Compass

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Institute for Policy Integrity - By Michael A. Livermore - Oct. 31 (Special Report) - In order to address climate change and energy security, a major rethinking of our energy infrastructure is necessary, especially over the long term. The twin goals of energy security and reduction in carbon emissions can be mutually reinforcing, if wise policy options are chosen. The challenge for the next administration is to find policies that produce simultaneous economic, environmental, and energy bene*its, rathert han force these policy goals to fight each other in a lose-lose battle.

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What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

In These Times - By Bill Ayers - Nov. 07 (Opinion) - Obama has continually been asked to defend something that ought to be at democracy’s heart: the importance of talking to as many people as possible in this complicated and wildly diverse society, of listening with the possibility of learning something new, and of speaking with the possibility of persuading or influencing others. The McCain-Palin attacks not only involved guilt by association, they also assumed that one must apply a political litmus test to begin a conversation.

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A Sea Change for Politics as We Know It

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Adam Nagourney - Nov. 04 (News Analysis) - The 2008 race for the White House that comes to an end on Tuesday fundamentally upended the way presidential campaigns are fought in this country, a legacy that has almost been lost with all the attention being paid to the battle between Senators John McCain and Barack Obama.

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It's not just Limbaugh and Hannity

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Media Matters - Nov. 06 (News Analysis) - Beyond the echelon of widely known conservative radio hosts with national audiences lies a vast network of lesser-known syndicated and regional radio hosts who have become key components of an echo chamber for conservative talking points and falsehoods. Like their better-known counterparts, these syndicated and regional radio hosts have played active roles this election season in promoting falsehoods and smears in an all-out effort to foment hate and distrust among their listeners for President-elect Barack Obama. While the hosts vary in the degree of vitriol they spew and in their ratio of rebuttable falsehoods to unbridled smears, Media Matters for America and Colorado Media Matters have identified common themes that many, if not all, have promoted over the past year.

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Like, Socialism

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

New Yorker - By Hendrik Hertzberg - Oct. 27 (Opinion) - Sometimes, when a political campaign has run out of ideas and senses that the prize is slipping through its fingers, it rolls up a sleeve and plunges an arm, shoulder deep, right down to the bottom of the barrel. The problem for John McCain, Sarah Palin, and the Republican Party is that the bottom was scraped clean long before it dropped out.

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An 'Idiot Wind'

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - Oct. 31 (Editorial) - WITH THE presidential campaign clock ticking down, Sen. John McCain has suddenly discovered a new boogeyman to link to Sen. Barack Obama: a sometimes controversial but widely respected Middle East scholar named Rashid Khalidi.

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McCain Advisor Says Voter Fraud is a “Perception” that “Plants Seeds of Doubt”

Sun, 02 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0700

ProPublica - By Chisun Lee - Nov. 02 (Investigative Report) - A review of prosecutors’ statements and documents filed by Republicans in the most serious new cases alleging voter fraud shows that none offer an example in which a fraudulently registered person managed to cast a valid vote. While several cases argue that such frauds are possible, none sketched a scenario for how massive numbers of people could fake registrations and then vote.

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The Vote Grab: Voter purge could swing result to McCain

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Independent - By Peter Tatchell - Oct. 28 (Opinion) - In the first few days of early voting in Florida, 5,000 voters have already been rejected, mostly because of typos and bureaucratic blunders in the spelling of their names. Non-match discrepancies could result in hundreds of thousands of US citizens - perhaps millions - losing their right to vote. Even those who are allowed to remain on the register may be required to vote using a provisional ballot, which may or may not be counted.

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McCain First, Second, And Always

Sun, 02 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0700

New Republic - By Sahil Mahtani - Nov. 02 (Investigative Report) - New evidence, obtained in recent weeks, again points back to the McCain camp. The investigator of those leaks now says that he does not doubt that they came from McCain or his team. A reporter who possessed evidence in the Keating case now says he believes that McCain was the source and got away with it. Finally, a senator who has emerged as a key backer of McCain's presidential campaign turns out to have authored a letter stating flatly that McCain was the source of the damning leaks. Put together, a large record of evidence now points in the direction of Senator McCain. Far from McCain's reputation of putting "country first," these leaks depict a formidable politician willing to go through great lengths to maintain his standing. More than McCain's relationship with Keating, it is the story of the Keating investigation leaks that voters should know.

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Early e-voting results in vote flipping in three states so far

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Cyrus Farivar - Oct. 27 (News Report) - West Virginia has had the distinct honor of being the first state in the union to report problems (surprise! surprise!) with its electronic voting systems. There are now also reports that similar problems have been happening in Tennessee and Texas as well. No doubt these won't be the last.

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Issues 2008

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0700

McClatchy - By Maria Recio - Nov. 01 (Special Report) - Female voters in 2008 are looking harder at what traditionally have been considered women's issues — abortion, pay equity, health care — and where John McCain and Barack Obama stand on those issues, not surprisingly, reflects their political philosophies.

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The Republican Rump

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Paul Krugman - Nov. 03 (Opinion) - Maybe the polls are wrong, and John McCain is about to pull off the biggest election upset in American history. But right now the Democrats seem poised both to win the White House and to greatly expand their majorities in both houses of Congress.

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New Study: Large Counties in Swing States May Face Election Day Problems

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Common Dreams - Oct. 28 (Press Release) - Voters in the largest counties in 10 key swing states may experience problems on Election Day because of insufficient preparation and inadequate poll booth and machine allocation plans, according to a report released today by FairVote, a nonpartisan advocacy group. FairVote surveyed 26 election administrators in counties with over 500,000 residents in Colorado, Florida, Missouri, New Mexico, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin.

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Why Barack Obama Is Winning

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Joe Klein - Oct. 27 (Opinion) - Barack Obama has prospered in this presidential campaign because of the steadiness of his temperament and the judicious quality of his decision-making. They are his best-known qualities.

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2 Rivals’ Plans on Fiscal Issue Add to Deficits

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Jackie Calmes - Oct. 29 (Special Report) - While both presidential candidates enter the campaign’s final week promising to be the better fiscal steward, each has outlined tax and spending proposals that would make annual budget deficits worse, analysts say, with Senator John McCain likely to create a deeper hole than Senator Barack Obama would.

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Muscling Up the Majorities

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Congressional Quarterly - By Bob Benenson - Oct. 27 (Special Report) - The reasons go beyond the flagging popularity of the Republican “brand,” which has been in evidence all year, and the coattails of Barack Obama , who appears well-positioned to win back the presidency for the Democrats next week with a clear-cut majority in the Electoral College. The GOP has been on the outs with the public in plenty of other election years, and the opposing party has not positioned itself to capitalize on the opportunity the way it has now. What’s different this time is the increasingly aggressive and agile tactical savvy of the Democrats’ congressional campaign operatives, who committed early on to “expanding the playing field” of competitive races in 2008 — and have shown they know how to pounce whenever they see an opportunity. The result has been one of the party’s best years in decades for candidate recruiting, fundraising and media strategy.

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The Candidates’ Health Plans

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - Oct. 28 (Editorial) - The nation’s health care system is desperately in need of reform — as far too many Americans know from grim, personal experience. In this election, Barack Obama and John McCain are offering starkly different ideas for how to fix that system.

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Vote-Flipping Diebold Machine Removed, Quarantined in CO

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Brad Blog - By Brad Friedman - Oct. 31 (News Report) - A county clerk in Colorado has finally done the right thing for the voters by removing a touch-screen voting machine from service, and quarantining it, after it was discovered to be flipping votes from one candidate to another. The failed machine in this case was a Diebold Accu-Vote, a frequent flipper.

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