Archive for September 20th, 2008
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Indiana, in Play, Keeps Obama Guessing (Time.com)
Time.com – Will the Hoosier State opt for the Democratic presidential nominee for the first time in two generations?
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Indiana Keeps Obama Guessing (Time.com)
Time.com – Will the Hoosier State opt for the Democratic presidential nominee for the first time in two generations? -
Candidates’ August spending is record
Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain together spent $94 million in August, a record spree mostly aimed at about a dozen states that will probably decide their contest. -
Alaska town opens ‘road to nowhere’ (AP)
AP – Alaska now has a Road to Nowhere going to what would have been the Bridge to Nowhere.
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Johnny Hayes, fundraiser for Al Gore, dies at 67 (AP)
AP – Johnny Hayes, a prominent Democratic fundraiser who managed finances for the two presidential campaigns of former Vice President Al Gore, died Saturday. He was 67. -
Republican VP candidate Palin to meet Afghanistan’s Karzai (AFP)
AFP – Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s running mate Sarah Palin will meet Afghan President Hamid Karzai next week in New York, a McCain campaign spokesman said Saturday. -
Palin to meet with Afghan president next week (AP)
AP – Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is scheduled to meet with Afghan President Hamid Karzai this coming week in New York, campaign officials for GOP nominee John McCain confirmed Saturday. -
Campaign advisers helped create mess (Politico)
Politico – The presidential campaigns went after each other’s economic advisers this week — and they’re both right in claiming that the other camp deserves a share of the blame.
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McCain and Obama mostly mum on bailout (Politico)
Politico – If you think Henry Paulson’s three-page rewrite of the nation’s financial and governmental systems was vague and open-ended, you might want to check out the responses to his plan from John McCain and Barack Obama.
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Analysis: Politics complicates financial bailout
Both parties have had to make quick compromises in the face of the gravest threat to Americans’ standard of living since the Great Depression.
