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Obama HQ (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
ABC News: Sen. Obama also gets specific right away -- looking right to the camera with his bailout package for the middle class. And if you're looking for the first candidate to draw a distinction tonight, it's Obama, not McCain. LINK Washington Post (Chris Cillizza): Obama is ON message. A question about campaign finance and nasty campaigning becomes an economic answer. LINK TIME: "Jobs."...
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MyDD (Free subscription) | yesterday
In my last post I noted the overall disparity between the advertising efforts on behalf of Barack Obama and John McCain. Over at The Fix, Chris Cillizza goes a step further and breaks down spending by state, which I have reproduced below. Note that although independent expenditures by the Republican National Committee don't bring the same bang for the buck as candidate ads they are included...
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MyDD (Free subscription) | yesterday
Chris Cillizza has the numbers, and they're shocking: Reports obtained by The Fix detailing spending by the two campaigns as well as the Republican National Committee show that Obama dropped more than $32 million on television in 17 battleground states between Oct. 7 and Oct. 13 -- an increase of $12 million over what he spent between Sept. 30 and Oct. 6. During that same time period,...
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Michael Goldfarb - The Blog (Free subscription) | 10/13/2008
So reports Chris Cillizza at The Fix. My question: Who are those eight percent and what are they smoking?...
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MyDD (Free subscription) | 10/14/2008
So says Chris Cillizza : Asked whether they thought McCain had "shown effective leadership in dealing with the financial crisis, voters roundly panned the Arizona senator. In each state [Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin], less than one in four voters agreed with that statement while a majority of voters said McCain had not demonstrated leadership during the recent crisis....
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Vox Verax (Free subscription) | 10/14/2008
Economy Remains Top Voter Concern By Chris Cillizza washingtonpost.com Tuesday, October 14, 2008 Barack Obama widened his lead considerably over John McCain in four key battleground states during the past three weeks, providing further evidence that the economic crisis has greatly enhanced the Democrat's advantage with just 21 days left before Election Day. Obama holds double-digit margins...
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US News (Free subscription) | yesterday
... September 30 and October 6 are the reason he decided to forgo public financing, Political Animal. Chris Cillizza how Obama's fundraising has allowed him to "alter the traditional red state/blue state divide." Noam Scheiber at the New Republic when Obama will announce his record-setting September money total.
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NEWS COMPASS (Free subscription) | 10/13/2008
Read here in Washington Post by Chris Cillizza The new Washington Post/ABC News national poll puts John McCain behind Barack Obama by 10 points -- his biggest deficit in the survey since the general election began in June. But, that's not the worst news in the poll for McCain. A detailed look inside the poll shows just how toxic the national political environment has become for Republicans...
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WhirledView (Free subscription) | yesterday
... and Macao gambling tycoon has chosen to so ‘honor’ this November. The other races, according to Chris Cillizza of The Washington Post are Alabama’s 2nd, Illinois’ 10th, Nevada’s 3rd, New Jersey’s 3rd and 7th. But if you look at the statistics, New Mexico’s 1st and Illinois’ 10th are by far the largest recipients of Freedom Watch’s largesse. This is a peculiar Congressional District....
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Raw Story (Free subscription) | 10/14/2008
Obama Widens Lead in Four Key States Economy Remains Top Voter ConcernBy Chris Cillizza washingtonpost.com Tuesday, October 14, 2008; 6:32 AMBarack Obama widened his lead considerably over John McCain in four key battleground states during the past three weeks, providing further evidence that the economic crisis has greatly enhanced the Democrat's advantage with just 21 days left before...
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ColoradoPols.com - Front Page (Free subscription) | 10/12/2008
We check in with Washington Post blogger Chris Cillizza , who has profiled each month this season the Senate seats most likely to switch parties. This month's lineup keeps the Colorado Senate race between Democrat Mark Udall and Republican Bob Schaffer at #3 , but with a twist: Cillizza is starting to wonder out loud what the deal is. Why isn't this race over? 3. Colorado (R):...
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Reel Fanatic (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
When I go read the Washington Post online, which I can confidently say I do every single day, I usually go straight for politics, which the newspaper does better than any other publication I've come across except maybe The Economist (and Chris Cillizza's washingtonpost.com blog The Fix is simply as infectious as it is informative.) On the weekend, however, when the politics often comes...
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The Democratic Daily (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
If the predictions are on the money, the signs are all there for a trainwreck for the GOP, come November… Chris Cillizza has pieced it all together on The Fix, noting “a column from Stu Rothenberg who, along with former Fix boss Charlie Cook stands atop the congressional handicapping game in Washington, in which Stu declares [...]
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Townhall.com (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza is a regular and very welcome guest on the program. Prompted by Ace of Spades, I asked Chris on Tuesday prior to the presidential debate about MSM's treatment of Joe Biden's serial...
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Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza is a regular and very welcome guest on the program. Prompted by Ace of Spades, I asked Chris on Tuesday prior to the presidential debate about MSM's treatment of Joe Biden's serial...