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October 08, 2008
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October 08, 2008
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US election: McCain struggles
to keep afloat in final weeks of ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/07/uselections2008.johnmccain3 |
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Young people interested in
this election, county clerk says as ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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sundancechannel.com Launches
'Voices On the Election' -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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Election 2008: Election Law
(and How They Break It) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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Capitol Hill Workshop: 2008
Election to be Cosponsored by ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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Labor Woos Whites for Obama -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122333633242509583.html?mod=googlenews_wsj |
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The Myth of Election Year
Price Manipulation -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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Election Race Diary Roundup
(10/6 –29 Days to Chan -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://feeds.dailykos.com/~r/dailykos/index/~3/3Ilo-IGaYok/622165 |
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WebMD Highlights Presidential
Candidates' Views on Health Care -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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Presidential Candidates to
be Questioned by Voters -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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C-SPAN Daily Alert -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- C-SPAN Highlights Tonight: Tomorrow: Tonight: Tomorrow: ********************************************************************** Tonight: Tomorrow: ********************************************************************** Tonight: Tomorrow: ********************************************************************** * 2nd Presidential Debate at Belmont Univ.
in Nashville - Ton., C-SPAN, 9pm ET LIVE * Newspaper Articles & Viewer Calls * For the second consecutive day Tuesday, the House Oversight and Government Reform chairman questioned the motives and business sense of executives from a major failed banking institution... - Full Story at www.c-span.org/capitolspotlight/ * How many presidents were elected while
serving as vice president? - Answer at www.c-span.org/capitolspotlight/
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Hoyer Statement on Release
of Fiscal Year 2008 Deficit Numbers --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
WASHINGTON, DC - House Majority Leader
Steny H. Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today on
the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office's release of its
Monthly Budget Review for September:
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1st democratic elections in
Maldives -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The election is a referendum on President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, who came to power in 1978 and has for 30 years ruled the Maldives, an archipelago of almost 1,200 coral islands located south-soutwest of India. He’s won the six previous elections as the only candidate on the ballot. Many Maldivians consider the 71-year-old Gayoom a hero who has transformed a fishing culture into a tourist nation whose white sandy beaches lure well-heeled Western tourists. Gayoom’s critics contend that the
president has ruled with an iron fist, crushing dissent, amassing
wealth and stacking his administration with friends and relatives. |
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Stock slump spreads to Europe -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- London’s FTSE 100 went down 2.4 percent in early trading, the CAC 40 in Paris was trading about 4.6 percent lower. The XETRA DAX in Frankfurt lost 4.5 percent. The British indices fell even as the government announced a 50 billion pound ($87 billion) bank rescue package Wednesday morning. The plan will inject money into the banking system to provide immediate relief and free up lending, a Treasury statement said. Russia’s major markets were off more than 10 percent when trading was suspended until Friday. The brutal losses came a day after Wall
Street experienced a more than a 500-point drop, knocking it
to a five-year low. |
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UK offers multi-billion-dollar
rescue -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The plan will inject money into the banking system to provide immediate relief and free up lending, a Treasury statement said. The government will give the largest banks 25 billion pounds ($43.7 billion) with another 25 billion pounds available if desired. The government will also guarantee the
lending that banks make to each other, the Treasury said. |
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Poll: Obama wins 2nd debate -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fifty-four percent of those questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey conducted after the debate ended said that Obama did the best job in the debate, with 30 percent saying John McCain performed better. According to the poll, 64 percent had a
favorable opinion of Obama after the debate, up four points from
before the event. Fifty-one percent of those polled had a favorable
opinion of McCain after the debate, unchanged from before its
start. |
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Lawmakers defend Palin trooper
probe -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Palin’s Republican allies have asked her state’s highest court to shut down the investigation, and the justices are scheduled to hear arguments on the issue Wednesday. In a brief filed Tuesday afternoon, lawmakers say the effort is meant entirely “to avoid a negative impact on the fortunes of one political party.” Palin is now the Republican nominee for vice president. In August, after she became Sen. John McCain’s
running mate, five GOP lawmakers sued to block the investigation
into her July dismissal of former Public Safety Commissioner
Walt Monegan. |
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U.S. stocks clobbered again -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke’s dour economic outlook in an afternoon speech added to the day’s weakness. And a report showed consumer borrowing in August fell for the first time since January 1998. The Dow Jones industrial average lost 508 points or 5.1 percent, closing at the lowest point since Sept. 30, 2003. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index fell 5.7 percent and closed below 1,000 for the first time since August 27, 2003. The Nasdaq composite lost 5.8 percent and ended at its lowest point since August 18, 2003. “There is this feeling that no matter
what is done, it won’t be enough,” said Darin Pope,
chief investment officer at United Advisors of Secaucus, New
Jersey. |
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Poll finds Obama has edge
in compassion -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll released Tuesday afternoon, 55 percent of registered voters questioned say that Obama cares more about people like them than John McCain; 35 percent say McCain cares more than Obama. That 20-point margin for Obama is up from a 9-point advantage a month ago. “The all-time champion of town-hall
debates was Bill Clinton because he was able to connect with
the audience members so well,” said CNN Polling Director
Keating Holland. “Voters nationwide seem to feel some connection
with Obama. The question is whether he’ll connect with the
people at the debate tonight. John McCain has a pretty good track
record at town halls and it’s possible that he will be the
one who looks more compassionate.” |
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CNN Poll: Obama won the night -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From CNN Deputy Political Director Paul Steinhauser
Polls suggests Obama has won tonight’s
debate. Hands down, debate watchers questioned
thought McCain rather than Obama spent more time attacking his
opponent: 63 percent said McCain went more negative, as opposed
to 17 percent who pointed to Obama. |
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NYT: Obama and McCain Clash
Over Economy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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Obama, McCain draw contrasts
in second debate -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain meet
for their second presidential debate. The debate was set up like a town hall meeting, and the audience was made up of undecided voters. The candidates spoke directly to each other at times, but at other times they spoke as if their opponent were not in the room. The debate over foreign policy boiled down to who has the better judgment. McCain said he knows how to handle foreign affairs and questioned Obama's ability to do so. "My judgment is something that I think I have a record to stand on," McCain said. McCain said the "challenge" facing a president considering using military force "is to know when to go in and when not." Obama questioned McCain's judgment in supporting the invasion of Iraq. "When Sen. McCain was cheerleading the president to go into Iraq, he suggested it was going to be quick and easy — we would be greeted as liberators. That was the wrong judgment," he said. Obama vowed to get Osama bin Laden and defeat al Qaeda. "We will kill bin Laden, we will crush
al Qaeda," he said. |
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Fact Check: Did McCain oppose
sending Marines to Lebanon in the 80s? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Get the facts!
The Facts McCain was a freshman member of the House of Representatives in September 1983 when it approved legislation "that would invoke the War Powers Act in Lebanon and authorize the deployment of American Marines in the Beirut area for an additional 18 months," the New York Times reported. The resolution had the backing of House leaders of both parties and President Reagan, and it passed by a vote of 270 to 161, the Times report said. But McCain "argued that his military training led him to oppose the continued deployment of troops in Lebanon," the Times reported. The newspaper reported that McCain said "I do not see any obtainable objectives in Lebanon" and that "the longer we stay there, the harder it will be to leave." On Oct. 23, 1983, a suicide attack at the Marine headquarters in Beirut killed 241 U.S. service members. "In Lebanon, I stood up to President
Reagan, my hero, and said, if we send Marines in there, how can
we possibly beneficially affect this situation? And said we shouldn't.
Unfortunately, almost 300 brave young Marines were killed,"
McCain said at the debate. |
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Fact Check: Did Obama vote
94 times for higher taxes? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sen. McCain said Obama 'has voted 94 times'
for higher taxes. Get the facts!
The Facts: Factcheck.org, a non-partisan project of the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg Public Policy Center, pieced through records to determine just what these 94 votes were. Key findings: Annenberg says a close look at the record reveals that Obama has "voted consistently to restore higher tax rates on upper-income taxpayers but not on middle- or low-income workers." Verdict: |
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Fact Check: Has Obama never
'taken on' Democratic leaders? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sen. McCain said Obama has never 'taken
on' Democratic leaders. Get the facts!
The Facts CQ — a non-partisan and highly respected journal of congressional affairs — says McCain has voted in line with the Republican Party 86 percent of the time. McCain's total number of votes is much larger, since he has been in the Senate since 1986, while Obama is in his first term. CQ also looked at what it deemed to be "key" votes. That analysis found Obama voted with his party on 29 out of 30 votes, which came out to 97 percent of the time. For McCain, CQ said there have been 335 "key" votes over the years, and that he voted with his party on 266 of them — 79 percent of the time. However, the journal noted instances when Obama voted outside the party. In 2005, Obama was one of only 18 Democrats to vote in favor of a business-backed bill to limit class action lawsuits by forcing the most-expensive into federal court. The majority of Democrats voted against the bill, which was opposed by consumer groups and the trial lawyers lobby. The journal also noted that Obama sided with Sen. Jim DeMint, R-South Carolina, who wanted greater disclosure of earmarks in an ethics bill, by voting against an attempt by Obama's home-state mentor, Democratic Whip Richard J. Durbin, to kill DeMint's disclosure amendment. And, Obama has criticized leading Democrats, including former presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-New York, for voting to authorize the Iraq war in 2002. However, many of those comments were made in the context of the Democratic primary campaign and that vote was prior to his time in the Senate. Verdict: False. While McCain is correct
that Obama has supported the Democratic leadership almost all
of the time, to say he's never differed with them is not true. |
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Senate Filings At A Glance -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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Eye on the Senate: Round-Up
of Latest State Polls -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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I thought the differences
between John McCain and me were pretty clear tonight. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I will fight for the middle class every day, and -- once again -- Senator McCain didn't mention the middle class a single time during the debate. If you agree that we need to cut taxes for 95% of working families, reduce health care costs, and end the war in Iraq responsibly, then I need your help right now. And if you heard John McCain push more of the same discredited policies, including tax cuts for the wealthy and giant corporations, tax increases on health care, and continuing to spend $10 billion a month in Iraq, then now is the time to act. Four weeks from tonight, we'll know which of us will be the next president. The time to make a difference in this election is running out -- please make a donation of $5 or more right now. https://donate.barackobama.com/townhall Thank you, Barack |
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Instant Polls Find Obama Won
Debate -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CBS poll of uncommitted voters: Obama 39%, McCain 27% |
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The Second Presidential Debate -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://politicalwire.com/archives/2008/10/07/the_second_presidential_debate.html Tonight's debate wasn't even close. Sen. Barack Obama ran away with it -- particularly when speaking about the economy and health care. Talking about his mother's death from cancer was very powerful. On nearly every issue, Obama was more substantive, showed more compassion and was more presidential. In contrast, Sen. John McCain was extremely erratic. Sometimes he was too aggressive (referring to Obama as "that one.") Other times, he just couldn't answer the question (on how he would ask Americans to sacrifice.) And his random attempts at jokes (hair transplants?) were just bad. Tom Brokaw was terrible as moderator. His fixation with the rules -- particularly when the candidates were not complaining -- was distracting and a disservice to everyone. The format didn't work very well, but Brokaw made it worse. Other reactions: Andrew Sullivan: "This was, I think, a mauling: a devastating and possibly electorally fatal debate for McCain... I've watched a lot of debates and participated in many. I love debate and was trained as a boy in the British system to be a debater. I debated dozens of times at Oxofrd. All I can say is that, simply on terms of substance, clarity, empathy, style and authority, this has not just been an Obama victory. It has been a wipe-out. It has been about as big a wipe-out as I can remember in a presidential debate. It reminds me of the 1992 Clinton-Perot-Bush debate. I don't really see how the McCain campaign survives this." Ezra Klein: "Tonight was supposed to be John McCain's night, but it was the first clear debate win Obama has scored over the course of this campaign -- including the primary. McCain, as it turned out, was badly disadvantaged by the format. This debate was more physical than previous encounters. And McCain, for reasons of age and injuries and height, has a less commanding physical presence than Obama." Mark Halperin: "McCain spent much of the evening trying to define Obama on his terms, but never broke all the way through." Marc Ambinder: "CW says that John McCain had a 90 minute window to turn his campaign around - to put into play the McCain Resurgence Strategy, if you will, and if that's the CW threshold, I don't think McCain met it." The instant polls taken just after the
debate also show Obama as the winner. |
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SurveyUSA: Obama Up By Double
Digits in Wisconsin -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SurveyUSA: Obama Up By Double Digits in Wisconsin http://politicalwire.com/archives/2008/1...._wisconsin.html A new SurveyUSA poll in Wisconsin shows Sen. Barack Obama with a ten point lead over Sen John McCain, 52% to 42%. Key findings: "McCain leads in greater
Milwaukee and among Pro-Life voters. Obama leads, or ties McCain,
in all other regions and demographic groups: young and old, male
and female, Moderate and Independent, more educated and less
educated, lower income and higher income, religious and not so
religious." |
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SurveyUSA: Obama Soars Ahead
in Pennsylvania -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In less than two weeks, Obama is up 5 points; McCain is down 4. Key findings: "Among white voters, who make-up 87% of PA's electorate, Obama had trailed by 3, now leads by 4 -- a 7-point swing to the Democrat, which, when combined with Obama's now 24:1 advantage among black voters, puts Obama in prime position to capture the 21 Keystone Electoral Votes as the two candidates head for home." Update: A new Rasmussen survey has Obama leading by 13 points. |
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PPP Poll: Obama Regains Lead
in Ohio -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key finding: "Much of the movement
in Obama's direction since the last poll has come from a tightening
among white voters. Where McCain previously had an 18 point advantage
it is now just 6. Given the overwhelming support of black voters
for Obama, McCain probably can't take the state without at least
a 12 point advantage with whites." |
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RGJ Poll: Obama Takes Lead
in Nevada -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key findings: " According to the numbers, he's held on to his lead with women voters in Nevada and, for the first time since the RGJ started polling, has taken the lead from McCain among independent voters." |
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MPR Poll: Obama Surges Ahead
in Minnesota -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Despite Obama's lead, the race remains fluid. Twelve percent of likely voters indicate that they may change their minds; among the larger group of 19 percent who are up for grabs, there appears to be receptivity to McCain." |
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Time/CNN Poll: Obama Gains
in Red States -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- North Carolina: Obama 49%, McCain 49% Ohio: Obama 50%, McCain 47% Wisconsin: Obama 51%, McCain 46% Indiana: McCain 51%, Obama 46% New Hampshire: Obama 53%, McCain 45% |
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Fox/Rasmussen: Obama Gains
in Key Swing States -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Florida: Obama 52%, McCain 45% Colorado: Obama 51%, McCain 45% Missouri: Obama 50%, McCain 47% Virginia: Obama 50%, McCain 48% Ohio: McCain 48%, McCain 47% |
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Russia begins final pull-out
from Georgia buffer zone -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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Obama to campaign in Indy
today -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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Officer wrote of harsh treatment
of US detainee -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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Judge orders release of Chinese
Muslims into US -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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Transcript of second McCain,
Obama debate -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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Fact-checking the candidates -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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Obama picks up second debate
win, poll says -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/08/debate.poll/?iref=mpstoryview |
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Warren Buffett may be the
man to bail us out, McCain & Obama agree -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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Post-Debate: Obama makes Surprise
Visit to Gore Home for Fundraiser -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Campaign says there were about 300-350 people inside Gore’s Belle Meade home for a “debate watching dessert reception” @ $2500 per person for the Obama victory fund. GORE: “First of all we had a great night tonight,” Gore began. He ticked through some names of local politicians and then said, “There are so many celebrities and elected officials and uh, entertainers – if you walk around here and you see some of these world class superstars, you – I just want you to be forewarned I’m not introducing any of them because we have the main event.” He said he was glad to have Barack and Michelle back in their home. “I am so excited about what is lying ahead for our country. We cant take anything for granted, we have a lot of hard work to do,” he said. With that, he introduced the next president of the United States. The crowd went wild. OBAMA: “I hope that you will excuse us because we’re not going to be here too long….Michelle, some of you know that Michelle is actually the hardest working person in show business, so she’s gonna be on the Daily Show tomorrow, she’s gonna be on Larry King, I think. So she’s got her busy schedule. She’s gotta wake up early in the morning. …But the main thing I wanted to do was just to acknowledge the extraordinary legacy and the ongoing work of Al and Tipper Gore. They have been an inspiration to Michelle and myself. They have done as much to help shape the national debate around some of the most critical issues that we face in the 21st century. They do it with grace, they do it with style, and now they’re inspiring a whole new generation of people. You know, when you hear about the courses that Al’s conducting to teach people to then teach the rest of the country about, and the rest of the globe about some of the critical issues, most particularly climate change, it makes you realize you don’t have to have a public office to change the world. And what makes me particularly gratified, is that as somebody who has admired Al and Tipper from afar for so many years, for them to extend themselves in friendship and support throughout this you know, incredible journey Michelle has been on – Michelle and I have been on – well, it’s more incredible being married to me because, you know that’s a burden that she alone has to shoulder. Fortunately, oh, look at this, Howard Dean just walked in! (cheers) so, let me just cut it short by
saying this, Tipper has been talking to Michelle and giving her
advice about dealing with this stuff since it started. Al gave
me extraordinary advice and insight, and has continued to do
so throughout, and one simple commitment and pledge that I’ll
make to you, that should we have the great honor of serving as
president and first lady, these are people that we will be continuing
to consult, who will continue to share their wisdom and advice,
because I can’t think of two people who’ve been more
extraordinary citizens of the U.S.A. and of the world. Thank
you so much. |
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Voting sign-ups hit record -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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Early voters start casting
ballots in New Mexico -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j6NDezbw0TCPr-6DL3QHQEXRWxUQD93M7TL80 |
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Adelstein Applauds FCC's Military
Payola Probe -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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Democrats tout big gains in
voter registration -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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Dems Bet Record Turnout Will
Trump Partisan Fraud -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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Oil falls after inventory
report -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Light, sweet crude for November delivery was down $3.11 to $86.95 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Oil had traded down about 75 cents just before the government figures were released. Prices have been under pressure amid anxiety over a global slowdown in demand. Wednesday’s report “feeds into the sense that the consumer is flat on their back,” said John Kilduff, energy analyst at MF Global in New York. And with the global economic outlook darkening, “demand for energy is not going be perking up any time soon.” By Ben Rooney |
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IMF warns global economy in
‘major downturn’ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The IMF’s World Economic Outlook, released Wednesday, called recent blows to the global economy “the most dangerous financial shock in mature financial markets since the 1930s.” “Global growth is projected to slow substantially in 2008, and a modest recovery would only begin later in 2009. Inflation is high, driven by a surge in commodity prices, but is expected to moderate. The situation is exceptionally uncertain and subject to considerable downside risks,” says the executive summary of the report, which was released two days before the IMF-World Bank annual meeting in Washington. The summary says the immediate challenge
to leaders around the world is to “stabilize financial conditions,
while nursing economies through a period of slow activity and
keeping inflation under control.” |
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Wall Street cheers rate cut -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The coordinated effort, aimed at stemming the fallout from the spreading financial crisis around the world, will likely bring some much-needed relief. U.S. futures spiked about 90 minutes before the opening bell, after pointing sharply lower for most of the morning. The move followed the Federal Reserve’s emergency rate-cut announcement, which brought the target for the federal funds to 1.5 percent, down a half-point. –By CNNMoney.com’s Aaron Smith |
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Fed lowers key rate in concert
with other central banks -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Fed lowered its fed funds rate by half of a percentage point to 1.5 percent. This rate is the central bank’s key tool to affect the economy. Lowering the rate pumps money into the economy by reducing the borrowing cost on a broad range of loans, including credit cards, home equity lines and many business loans. “The recent intensification of the financial crisis has augmented the downside risks to growth and thus has diminished further the upside risks to price stability,” the Fed said in a joint statement with the central banks of four other countries and the European Central Bank. –By CNNMoney.com’s Chris Isidore |
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CNN Poll: Obama won the night -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From CNN Deputy Political Director Paul Steinhauser
Polls suggests Obama has won tonight’s
debate. Fifty-four percent of those questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey conducted after the debate ended said that Obama did the best job in the debate, with 30 percent saying John McCain performed better. http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/08/cnn-poll-obama-won-the-night-2/ |
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Fact Check: Are business groups
critical of McCain's health plan? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- At a presidential debate Tuesday, Oct.
7, in Nashville, Tennessee, Democratic presidential candidate
Sen. Barack Obama criticized the health-care plan of Republican
opponent Sen. John McCain. "In fact, just today, business
organizations like the United States Chamber of Commerce, which
generally are Get the facts!
The Facts Obama's comments appear to refer to an Oct. 7 New York Times article in which R. Bruce Josten, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's executive vice president for government affairs, called elements of McCain's health plan "very discomforting" to some in the business community. "The private marketplace, in my opinion, is ill-prepared today with an infrastructure for an individual-based health insurance system," he said in the article. The article paraphrases officials from
groups like the Chamber, the Business Roundtable and the National
Federation of Independent Businesses saying that eliminating
the income-tax exclusion would "accelerate the erosion of
employer-sponsored health insurance and do little to reduce the
number of Josten says there is a "huge question" whether the $2,500 for individuals or $5,000 for families would be enough to buy the same kind of coverage. According to the article, officials with eight business trade groups contacted by the Times predicted the McCain plan would raise costs and force some employers to stop providing health benefits. Verdict: True. Obama accurately expresses
the tone and content of the news article. |
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Fact Check: Did McCain say
the Iraq war would be easy, popular? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sen. Obama suggested Sen. McCain was 'cheerleading the president to go into Iraq.' The Statement Get the facts!
The Facts On CNN's Larry King Live on Sept. 24, 2002, McCain said "I believe the success will be fairly easy." He said on CNN's Late Edition on Sept. 29, 2002 that "I believe that we can win an overwhelming victory in a very short period of time." He made the comments more than two weeks before the Senate voted 77-23 to authorize President Bush to attack Iraq if Saddam Hussein refused to give up weapons of mass destruction as required by U.N. resolutions. McCain also said, on MSNBC's Hardball on March 24, 2003, that "there's no doubt in my mind that once these people (the Saddam Hussein regime) are gone that we will be welcomed as liberators." The Verdict: True. |
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42% of Households Watched
Debate -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In contrast, the vice presidential debate earned a rating of 45.0. |
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Obama Gets Surge of Donors -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- First Read: "Interviewed on MSNBC, Obama strategist David Axelrod revealed that 4 million individuals have now donated to the Obama camp. That's up from 2.5 million last month, meaning -- if our math is correct -- that 1.5 million new people gave money to Obama. So how big will Obama's September fundraising haul be? It looks like it might be BIG. Will it top the 100-million mark? (1.5 million new donors at 100 a pop... Well, you get the math.)" http://politicalwire.com/archives/2008/10/08/obama_gets_surge_of_donors.html |
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Debate Moves Undecided Voters -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Unlike the first debate, when Democracy Corps research showed half the voters remaining undecided and the two candidates splitting the other half, the vote following the second debate showed a decisive shift toward Senator Obama. This debate was a clear victory for Obama who made major gains not just in the vote but also on personal favorability and key attributes like 'has what it takes to be President,' which ultimately drove undecided voters into his column." In addition, Fox News and CNN focus groups of uncommitted voters also said Obama won. http://politicalwire.com/archives/2008/10/08/debate_moves_undecided_voters.html |
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Mason-Dixon: Obama Ahead in
Florida -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Said pollster Brad Coker: "The key to Florida remains the Tampa Bay region, where Obama currently holds a 48%-44% advantage. The other regions of the state fall into their generally predictable patterns, with Obama holding a wide 61%-33% lead in Southeast Florida and McCain running ahead in North Florida (58%-37%), Central Florida (51%-43%) and Southwest Florida (55%-40%)." |
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Instant Polls Find Obama Won
Debate -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CBS poll of uncommitted voters: Obama 39%, McCain 27% |
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Obama, McCain applaud lending
rate cut -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.reuters.com/article/joeBiden/idUSTRE4932E920081008 |
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McCain ramps up assault, Biden
warns of dangerous turn in campaign -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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McCain, Obama push hard on
records, vision for nation -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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Post-debate polling favors
Obama over McCain -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ha9qKZFKzFvH74G3c5PxRG_lHRIAD93MCB1G0 |
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Obama win may be marginally
better for US dollar -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.reuters.com/article/vcCandidateFeed2/idUSTRE49770020081008 |
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Analysis: Obama gains, McCain
seeks game-changer -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jpz8WxFwUMEOFBQxsZcQ5IOfx_MQD93M3ONO0 |
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Paterson launches Web site
with eye on '10 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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You Can Weather the Economic
Storm -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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Pending sales of existing
homes in US up 7.4 pct from July to ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |