Campaign Updates and Media Headlines 8/11/08
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Media Tenor: Race Heats Up As Candidates Go On Offensive
• Candidates increase criticisms of each other
• McCain pulls ahead in polls and predictions
• Experience gap continues to weigh on Obama
Are You Good Enough For Barack Obama? (by Uppity Woman at No Quarter)
I have some very bad news, readers. I am a dismal failure. Alas, I just took the Obama test: Are You Good Enough For Barack Obama?. As as you can see, I did very poorly… Sigh………..here’s my score.
Honestly, I don’t know where I went wrong! I mean I said I wasn’t bitter! Ok Ok, maybe it was all those Honesty questions. Or maybe it’s because I don’t speak a lot of different languages like he doesn’t does. I mean, I even gave him he benefit of the doubt a few times just like his blind followers do all the time. That means I lied. But all I know is I failed miserably. I make a terrible Obama sycophant! I feel so left inadequate now.
What, me worry? Why polls aren’t worrying Obama’s team (by Carol Marin, Chicago Sun-Times)
Finally, for John McCain, a week to smile about. “Obama fatigue,” a virus that’s afflicted the GOP presidential candidate for sometime now, was discovered in a new Pew survey to have spread to 48 percent of the populace. And recent national polls now place McCain and Barack Obama in a statistical dead heat. Gallup’s numbers have Obama 46, McCain 43. RealClearPolitics’ national average is about the same, Obama 46.9 to McCain 43.3. What does it mean? Next to nothing. And Obama’s team not only knows it, it thrives on it.
Uh, sure. They don’t care. More likely, they don’t want anyone to THINK they’re worried.—Caro
Why isn’t Obama crushing McCain? (by Thomas Schaller, Salon)
A conversation with two prominent journalists and a Bush-Cheney campaign official about why, in what should be a Democratic year, Obama can’t put McCain away
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Carolyn Kay
MakeThemAccountable.com
