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McCain VP Announcement Causes Bigger Obama LeadWashington (ECN) - Reublican presidential candidate John McCain announced this past week that he has chosen Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his choice for vice president. At this point though, all this seems to have done is given his rival, Democratic nominee Barack Obama a bigger lead.A new poll released by USA TODAY/Gallup has revealed that Obama now has a bigger lead over McCain than before the VP announcement. The new poll has found that 33% of Americand do not believe that Gov. Sarah Palin has what is needed to take over as commander...

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Obama Convention throw US Flags in the Trash -------------------------------------------------------- A note from Radarsite: Almost immediately after this article posted, Radarsite was beiseiged with hits from one particular website: The Hillary Clinton Forum. Obviously, this article hit a sensitive nerve with the Dems. Our article was picked up and subsequently generated a long - two pages long, so far -- comments thread. And, to their credit, many of the commenters have indeed expressed appropriate outrage. But, as might be expected with any controversial topic such as this, some readers just dismissed it as minor and unimportant. And, just as predictably,...

Sen. Barack Obama gave a decent speech last Thursday night, insofar as the big event angle was concerned. It provided solid theater and was a spectacle like we haven't seen in American politics in some time. That said, it wasn't much different from what we've seen from Obama thus far – long on show, thin gruel at best on substance. If you're capable of being wowed by flash and don't really care to think about it too much, it probably came across as impressive. But putting the pizzazz aside, this speech put the lie to Obama's favorite buzzwords, and showed...

DENVER - It has become a tradition at national conventions to speculate on the size of the presidential candidate's "bounce." The gold standard was set by Bill Clinton in 1992, when the newly anointed Democratic nominee busted out of his convention and rolled by bus across the swing-state heartland, buoyed by a hike of 16 percentage points in the Gallup poll.

Last Thursday evening at the Democratic National Convention, presidential candidate Barack Obama tried to score a political touchdown on the 50 yard line of Denver's Invesco Field stadium. Instead, he won the all-time governmental convention award for the best over-the-top political spectacle of sight, sound, speech and pyrotechnics – complete with superstar performances, Braveheart-like epic music endings and an Olympic-sized fireworks show. For a week prior to the event, newscasters, commentators and pundits were trying to guess what exactly that Greco-Roman, column-structure was that served as a stage backdrop, and what it was supposed to be representing and stating on...

Obama's speech electrifies Kenyans11:59, August 31, 2008 Kenyans on Friday joined the world in celebrating U.S. Democratic Party nominee Senator Barrack Obama's acceptance to vie for the presidency and thus become first black American to run for the top seat. Dozens of Obama's close relatives stayed awake across the country, particularly, Kogelo village, the family homestead, on Thursday night, awaiting his acceptance speech in Denver. According to local dailies on Saturday, thousands remained glued to their television screens on night to follow the proceedings live from the United States as a five-km dust road stretch to Sarah Obama's homestead remained...

One of the first national polls weighing the impact of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as the Republican vice presidential nominee shows little change in a tight presidential race. The CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released tonight gives the Democratic ticket of Senators Barack Obama and Joe Biden a 49 percent to 48 percent edge over the Republican ticket of Senator John McCain and Palin. That compares to a tie at 47 percent each when voters were asked earlier in August to choose between Obama and McCain, without their running mates mentioned. The survey, which was conducted Friday through Sunday, found that...

ST. PAUL, Minnesota (CNN) — On the eve of the Republican convention, a new national poll suggests the race for the White House remains dead even. A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll released Sunday night shows the Obama-Biden ticket leading the McCain-Palin ticket by one point, 49 percent to 48 percent, a statistical dead heat. The survey was conducted Friday through Sunday, after both the conclusion of the Democratic convention and McCain’s selection of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. A previous CNN poll, taken just one week earlier, suggested the race between Sens. McCain, R-Arizona, and Obama, D-Illinois,...

Welcome to Pennsylvania. Check your assumptions at the door and take nothing for granted -- because this commonwealth is about to become the epicenter of the political universe. "The Democrats can't win the presidency without Pennsylvania's electoral votes," says Charles Franklin, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Steve McMahon, an analyst for the Democrats, says that is why Barack Obama's campaign showcased three Pennsylvania favorite sons at its convention. "The fact that all three, Sen. Bob Casey, Rep. Patrick Murphy and Scranton native Joe Biden, are white Catholics with working-class backgrounds" -- a tepid Obama demographic --...

Ever notice how Obama can never say what he really means? His speeches are all fluff and no substance. For example, if during his acceptance speech he said: "My fellow Americans, working together we can change this country into a Socialist utopia the likes of which even Hugo Chavez & Fidel Castro would be proud of! We will never take any unilateral action without global consensus, so we never fall out of favor, even with our enemies. And in closing, even though the policies of the Carter administration failed, that does not mean they will fail under my administration. Thank...

ST. PAUL, Minnesota (CNN) — On the eve of the Republican convention, a new national poll suggests the race for the White House remains dead even. A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll released Sunday night shows the Obama-Biden ticket leading the McCain-Palin ticket by one point, 49 percent to 48 percent, a statistical dead heat.

Happy Labor Day!About 30 - 35 years ago as a young man, I read a book entitled, "The Defense Never Rests" by celebrity attorney F. Lee Bailey (By the way, I never have found out what the "F" stands for). In the book (written WAY BEFORE the OJ trial), attorney Bailey made the assertion that it did not matter what was said but it DID make a difference as to how words were stated in court (The Triumph of Style over Substance). I found Bailey's claim DISTURBING then, and especially after watching Sen. Obama's acceptance speech as the Democratic nominee...

Happy Labor Day!About 30 - 35 years ago as a young man, I read a book entitled, "The Defense Never Rests" by celebrity attorney F. Lee Bailey (By the way, I never have found out what the "F" stands for). In the book (written WAY BEFORE the OJ trial), attorney Bailey made the assertion that it did not matter what was said but it DID make a difference as to how words were stated in court (The Triumph of Style over Substance). I found Bailey's claim DISTURBING then, and especially after watching Sen. Obama's acceptance speech as the Democratic nominee...

In tone, Obama's big speech was small, partisan, often defensive and occasionally snide. "I've got news for you, John McCain," he exclaimed. "We all put our country first." It was a pattern for the night: I'm not weak -- you are the one who hasn't killed bin Laden with your bare hands. I'm not inexperienced -- you are the one who is old and out of touch. None of this assault was made with grace or wit. And some of the attacks were simply unfair. Is it really credible to blame McCain for a tripling of oil imports during his...

It is incredible, but the designation of Sarah Palin as John McCain's running mate seems to have totally obliterated Barack Obama's bounce from his convention and after his magnificent speech. Zogby actually has McCain two ahead and Rasmussen's Friday only data shows Obama only three up! This confirms what we have suspected -- that the linkage of McCain and Bush was the weak link in Obama's convention. By showing how different he is and by taking the step of choosing an independent, outspoken, gutsy, reformist candidate like Palin as vice president, McCain has shown how much he is the un-Bush....

From CNN/Opinion Research Center: Obama 49, McCain 48 Gov. Palin’s approval: 38%, with 21% unfavorable and 41% never heard of her or have no opinion.

From http://www.hillaryclintonforum.net/discussion/showthread.php?t=26628 Jealous queen bee Andrea Mitchell:"only the less educated Hill supporters will go to McCain/Palin" I have a master's in engineering, my friend b/c her family could not afford college, and therefore is working her way thru college(has to work fulltime and go to school partime), has a HS degree ...WHY ARE WE BEING CALLED STUPID? someone please explain... because... you know..

Letter To the Editor in today's Boston Globe from L. David Alinsky, son of Obama and Hillary radical mentor Saul Alinsky. ALL THE elements were present: the individual stories told by real people of their situations and hardships, the packed-to-the rafters crowd, the crowd's chanting of key phrases and names, the action on the spot of texting and phoning to show instant support and commitment to jump into the political battle, the rallying selections of music, the setting of the agenda by the power people. The Democratic National Convention had all the elements of the perfectly organized event, Saul Alinsky...