Palin: Rising Unfavorable Ratings A Major Drawback For McCain Candidacy

Palin’s Qualifications Now Top Concern About McCain Candidacy
October 21, 2008 07:54 PM
Huffington Post- Marcus Baram
Two polls released Tuesday provide striking evidence of Palin’s transformation over the course of two months from GOP energy boost to major drawback, as the Alaska governor’s rising unfavorability ratings have become a critical vulnerability for the McCain campaign.
Palin’s qualifications to [...]

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Jon Stewart: How To Tell If You Belong To The “Real America” (VIDEO)

Jon Stewart: How to tell if you’re a ‘real American’
Raw Story- David Edwards and Muriel Kane
Published: Tuesday October 21, 2008
Jon Stewart offered some clues on Monday’s Daily Show for how to tell whether you belong to the “real America” where McCain supporters are in the majority and the fake America that lies everywhere else.
Stewart began [...]

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Recession: Most States Are Now In It

Majority of States Now in Recession

In March, 5 States Were in Recession; Now There are 27 With 14 More at Risk

By SCOTT MAYEROWITZ
ABC NEWS Business Unit
Oct. 21, 2008

What started out as a housing problem in a few states has now exploded into a full-fledged recession with a majority of states now in or dangerously close [...]

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Afternoon Jukebox… For What It’s Worth

Buffalo Springfield- For What It’s Worth

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McCain Family: The Black McCains

Denied black relative urges McCain to accept ancestry
Raw Story- David Edwards and Stephen C. Webster
Published: Monday October 20, 2008
The McCain family has a proud tradition in the United States. They fought for integration of the south, resisted the Ku Klux Klan, led civil rights campaigns and left a lasting mark on the politics of Mississippi.
But, [...]

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Palin: Vice President Is ‘In Charge Of The U.S. Senate’ (VIDEO)

Palin Claims The Vice President Is ‘In Charge Of The U.S. Senate’
Think Progress- By Ryan Powers at 12:00 pm
Yesterday, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) sat for an interview with KUSA, an NBC affiliate in Colorado. In response to a question sent to the network by a third grader at a local elementary school about what the [...]

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Palin’s “Real” America (VIDEO)

Do You Live In “Real” America?
Daily Kos- by Jed L
Tue Oct 21, 2008 at 09:10:03 AM PDT
Welcome to Sarah Palin’s America:

This video uses audio pulled from Monday night’s outstanding episode of The Daily Show. You can play the full audio excerpt here.

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Bush Has Decided To Keep Guantánamo Open

Bush Decides to Keep Guantánamo Open
The New York Times
By STEVEN LEE MYERS
Published: October 20, 2008
WASHINGTON — Despite his stated desire to close the American prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, President Bush has decided not to do so, and never considered proposals drafted in the State Department and the Pentagon that outlined options for transferring the [...]

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Attention Voters: Here’s What You Have to Do to Make Sure You Get to Vote

Steven Rosenfeld | AlterNet | Posted on October 21, 2008

Voters should verify their voter registrations are current and then vote early to avoid Election Day delays at polling places.
Ignore the partisan attacks on new voters and voter registration groups. Call your county election office to ensure your registration information is correct. Vote early to avoid Election Day [...]

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A McCain “Win” Will Be Theft, Resistance Is Planned

David Swanson | Global Research | October 20, 2008
If your television declares John McCain the president elect on the evening of November 4th, your television will be lying. You should immediately pick up your pre-packed bags and head straight to the White House in Washington, D.C., which we will surround and shut down until this [...]

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More Challenges for McCain, From Ayers to the Palin Pick

Obama Leads on Optimism and Temperament in Final Weeks
ANALYSIS by GARY LANGER
Oct. 20, 2008 —

More challenges for John McCain: Likely voters overwhelmingly reject his effort to make an issue of Barack Obama’s association with 1960s radical William Ayers. Fallout continues from McCain’s pick of Sarah Palin for vice president, with 52 percent saying it weakens [...]

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Powell Said What Obama Couldn’t

Eugene Robinson | Truthdig | Oct 20, 2008
Colin Powell demonstrated his eponymous “Powell Doctrine” of overwhelming force on Sunday when he endorsed Barack Obama on “Meet the Press.” The one-time chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff systematically marshaled his assets to neutralize the Republican endgame strategy, which is to suffuse [...]

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