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Election 2008 Today
Oct. 14th, 2008 08:59 amA couple of snippets. Sometime Bush supporter Christopher Hitchens comes out for Obama. More reporting on the battle for Nebraska's 2nd congressional district. Obama's getting a lot of newspaper endorsements. Some from former Bush supporters. 17-2 is a pretty good score but the game isn't quite over.
I was talking to a relative the other day who asked me why Obama wasn't releasing his birth certificate and had the impression that he was born outside the country. You know that's all coming from right-wing talk radio. Shame on them and shame on the McCain campaign for embracing these disgusting disinformation tactics.
Vote for Obama by Christopher Hitchens - Salon - 13 Oct 08
"McCain lacks the character and temperament to be president. And Palin is simply a disgrace."
"With McCain, the 'experience' is subject to sharply diminishing returns, as is the rest of him, and with Palin the very word itself is a sick joke. One only wishes that the election could be over now and a proper and dignified verdict rendered, so as to spare democracy and civility the degradation to which they look like being subjected in the remaining days of a low, dishonest campaign."
Nebraska is Unlikely Battleground - Lincoln Journal-Star - 13 Oct 08
"With a month to go before Election Day, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice presidential nominee, touched down here last week for an unexpected rally in a state that President Bush won by 22 percentage points in 2004.
In early September, even as it was shifting resources out of other traditionally Republican states to key electoral battlegrounds, Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign sent 15 paid staffers to Nebraska, a state that has backed a Democrat for president just once since 1936. Despite the overwhelmingly Republican nature of the state, Obama and the national mood are forcing Sen. John McCain to focus more on Nebraska’s biggest city."
"Walking through a heavily Republican working-class precinct in plastic ponchos, voter lists soaked by the rain, Anna Wolf and Gill Cromwell faced an uphill climb to win votes for Obama. Many people were not home. Others shook their heads firmly when asked if they would back the Illinois Democrat.
Electrician Jeremy Miller, 30, thinks Obama would be a better president for the working class but believes the false reports that Obama — a Christian born in Hawaii — is actually a Muslim and a foreigner. 'Him not being an actual American, that’s got me worried,' Miller said. 'This might be one of those years when I don’t vote.'"
17 Newspapers Endorse Obama, 2 for McCain - Editor and Publisher - 13 Oct 08
"Barack Obama picked up at least 17 newspaper endorsements this weekend, including six in swing states Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Ohio, North Carolina, and Missouri. John McCain, as far as we know, gained just two. The Wisconsin State Journal and The Sun of San Bernardino had backed Bush in 2004. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch called Obama's opponent, John McCain, 'the incredible shrinking man' who had made a horrific pick for his running mate.
I was talking to a relative the other day who asked me why Obama wasn't releasing his birth certificate and had the impression that he was born outside the country. You know that's all coming from right-wing talk radio. Shame on them and shame on the McCain campaign for embracing these disgusting disinformation tactics.
Vote for Obama by Christopher Hitchens - Salon - 13 Oct 08
"McCain lacks the character and temperament to be president. And Palin is simply a disgrace."
"With McCain, the 'experience' is subject to sharply diminishing returns, as is the rest of him, and with Palin the very word itself is a sick joke. One only wishes that the election could be over now and a proper and dignified verdict rendered, so as to spare democracy and civility the degradation to which they look like being subjected in the remaining days of a low, dishonest campaign."
Nebraska is Unlikely Battleground - Lincoln Journal-Star - 13 Oct 08
"With a month to go before Election Day, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice presidential nominee, touched down here last week for an unexpected rally in a state that President Bush won by 22 percentage points in 2004.
In early September, even as it was shifting resources out of other traditionally Republican states to key electoral battlegrounds, Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign sent 15 paid staffers to Nebraska, a state that has backed a Democrat for president just once since 1936. Despite the overwhelmingly Republican nature of the state, Obama and the national mood are forcing Sen. John McCain to focus more on Nebraska’s biggest city."
"Walking through a heavily Republican working-class precinct in plastic ponchos, voter lists soaked by the rain, Anna Wolf and Gill Cromwell faced an uphill climb to win votes for Obama. Many people were not home. Others shook their heads firmly when asked if they would back the Illinois Democrat.
Electrician Jeremy Miller, 30, thinks Obama would be a better president for the working class but believes the false reports that Obama — a Christian born in Hawaii — is actually a Muslim and a foreigner. 'Him not being an actual American, that’s got me worried,' Miller said. 'This might be one of those years when I don’t vote.'"
17 Newspapers Endorse Obama, 2 for McCain - Editor and Publisher - 13 Oct 08
"Barack Obama picked up at least 17 newspaper endorsements this weekend, including six in swing states Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Ohio, North Carolina, and Missouri. John McCain, as far as we know, gained just two. The Wisconsin State Journal and The Sun of San Bernardino had backed Bush in 2004. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch called Obama's opponent, John McCain, 'the incredible shrinking man' who had made a horrific pick for his running mate.
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