Campaign Updates and Media Headlines 9/5/08
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McCain vows to fight, fight, fight for better America (McClatchy)
ST. PAUL, Minn. — John McCain cast himself Thursday night as a lifelong fighter for his country who’s ready to lead new battles for dramatic change as he accepted the Republican Party’s presidential nomination.
CBS/NYT Poll: McCain Pulls Even With Obama (Political Wire)
The presidential race between Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain is now even with each getting 42% in the latest CBS News/New York Times poll conducted Monday-Wednesday of this week. Twelve percent are undecided according to the poll, and one percent said they wouldn’t vote. A poll conducted just last weekend found Obama ahead by eight points, 48% to 40%. Key finding: McCain has also closed the enthusiasm gap some with Obama, but it still exists.
There’s Something Missing in St. Paul (by Lawrence Kudlow)
On CNBC last night Jack Welch, GE’s CEO from that firm’s salad days in the ’80s and ’90s, pointed out the dangers of a three-house Democratic sweep. He says it’s dangerous for both the stock market and the economy. And he wants to know why the St. Paul Republicans aren’t running against Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and Barack Obama. Welch made the point that the last time the Democrats had control of all three houses in Washington the Jimmy Carter administration was in charge. That was a time of economic and stock market malaise. However, when Washington was divided — as was the case when Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton were in the White House — the economy and the stock market took off.
My, my, Jack Welch agrees with me on the split government possibility. That puts him in pretty rarified company. I wish I had his income!—Caro
Audacity Deficit (by Anglachel)
Aside from being an accomplished presenter, what [Palin] brings to the table is something we haven’t had in our Republicans of late, the ability to channel powerful resentments with an admixture of charm. She is in the Reagan mode (though no where near as polished and deadly) not like Nixon, DeLay, Gingrich, Buchanan, and the other angry white men on the Right. She is going right after Obama and doesn’t bother with Biden… Palin has not been off the front page of the New York Times for a week and always with more coverage than Obama. Biden barely registers as present.
As if on cue: Welcome Back, Dad (by Michael Reagan)
In one blockbuster of a speech, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin resurrected my Dad’s indomitable spirit and sent it soaring above the convention center, shooting shock waves through the cynical media’s assigned spaces and electrifying the huge audience with the kind of inspiring rhetoric we haven’t heard since my Dad left the scene. This was Ronald Reagan at his best — the same Ronald Reagan who made the address known now solely as “The Speech,” which during the Goldwater campaign set the tone and the agenda for the rebirth of the traditional conservative movement that later sent him to the White House for eight years and revived the moribund GOP.
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Carolyn Kay
MakeThemAccountable.com
