barack and joe at windmill ice cream shop in aliquippa, pa
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For McCain, the choice is Governor Sarah Palin (R-AK)
In a high-risk gambit with the potential for an equally high payoff, McCain is targeting a weakness in Obama's base and exploiting it.
But more broadly -- and perhaps more potently -- Palin helps McCain connect with working-class and rural voters.
Republicans greeted the selection with glee, anticipating the contrasts between a gun-toting self-described "hockey mom" and an effete, Harvard-educated ticket-topper on the Democratic side.
She's "exactly who I need," McCain of his selection. "She's exactly who this country needs to help us fight the same old Washington politics of me first and country second."
Choosing Mitt Romney -- whose personal wealth exceeds even the McCain family's -- would have done little to answer Obama's charge that McCain is out of touch. continue
My take. A risky move. She is a woman who is not pro-choice and so far to the right that even in incest or rape, against abortion. But, for McCain she can talk to the base and shore them up. Will Hillary voters go to Palin? Not if they care about the issues, they won't. Hillary and Bill Clinton already decimated any reason for voting McCain. If these voters go to McCain, again it is personal and not about the issues.
No one can agree that Sarah Palin is experienced enough to be a heartbeat away from the presidency. John McCain is 72 years old and have had two bouts with cancer, there is no one in this country that does not question his health. Palin is a former mayor of a city with less than 7000 people, worked in city council and less than 2 years of experience as governor does not equate being the next President of the United States.
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obama at pennsylvania bio diesel plant in monaca, pa
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Obama's Speech Lures Some Fence-Sitters as Others Await McCain
Barack Obama's speech last night left Janell Mader, a 32-year-old lifelong Republican, ``a little overwhelmed'' -- and likely to vote for him in November.
``All of the concerns or questions that I had have been answered,'' Mader, a homemaker from York, Pennsylvania, said of Illinois Senator Obama, 47, the Democratic presidential candidate. ``John McCain's going to have to do something pretty incredible next week for me to be convinced that the Republican Party deserves another four years.''
Mader was one of a dozen undecided voters from across the U.S. who discussed their impressions both before and immediately after Obama accepted his party's nomination at Invesco Field in Denver on the closing night of the Democratic National Convention. continue
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Hillary Clinton Statement on Palin
“We should all be proud of Governor Sarah Palin’s historic nomination, and I congratulate her and Senator McCain.
While their policies would take America in the wrong direction, Governor Palin will add an important new voice to the debate.”
sigh. And I thought she would be more precise, especially since her name was invoked into this by McCain/Palin. Here we go again.
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Source: McCain, GOP Significantly Expanding Advertising Map Into New States
John McCain and the Republican National Committee are significantly expanding the map of their ad spending, and have now reserved ad time in North Carolina and statewide in Virginia, as well as in new markets in many other states, according to a Democratic operative familiar with national ad buying.
The expansion is significant, because it suggests that the McCain team is less confident in its chances in Virginia and North Carolina than it once was. Obama is advertising statewide in both places. More broadly, the expanded buy suggests that the McCain team is being forced by Obama's wider advertising map to play on a broader playing field than it had hoped to.
Here, according to the Dem operative, is a list of the new states (with markets in parentheses) that McCain and/or the RNC have reserved air time in for the week beginning on September 1:
North Carolina (Raleigh, Greensboro)
Minnesota (Minneapolis, Duluth)
Virginia: (Norfolk, Richmond, Roanoke, Tri Cities, Harrisonburg, Charlottesville)
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