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8/4/2008 | Presidential Issues

House Republicans go back on the floor Monday to talk gas prices

Politico.Com

Continuing with their guerilla tactics from last week, House Republicans will be back on the floor Monday to talk gas prices, even though Congress is in recess, and they may stay there all week. More than a dozen Republicans have already committed to make appearances, according to House GOP leadership aide, including National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Tom Cole (Okla.). Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) and Mike Pence (R-Ind.), who led Friday's five-hour talkathon after the House shut down for the August recess, are also expected to be there, according to this aide. "In an urgent memo sent to GOP Members and staff Saturday (“A Call to Action on American Energy”), Republican Leader John Boehner (R-) and Whip Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) hailed Friday’s action, and encouraged House Republicans to return to the Capitol beginning Monday morning to help keep the historic effort going," said a press release just released by Minority Leader Boehner's office.

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Bullet 333Rick Green, President, Torch of Freedom Foundation
Bullet 333Colin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom Ring USA
Bullet 333Dr. Janice Hollis, Bishop, Progressive Believers Ministries
Bullet 333Bishop Harry R. Jackson, Senior Pastor, Hope Christian Church
Bullet 333Gary Marx, Executive Director, Judicial Confirmation Network
Bullet 333Joe Murray, Columnist, The Bulletin
Bullet 333Grover Norquist, President, Americans for Tax Reform (ATR)

8/4/2008 | Presidential Issues

Gwyneth Paltrow films ad for Barack Obama

Telegraph.Com

The American actress, who lives in London with her husband, Chris Martin, the singer in the rock group Coldplay, leads a video encouraging ex-pats to register to vote from overseas in the presidential election in November. Speaking alongside several other Americans living abroad, Miss Paltrow says: "Start now - right now. I'll be voting from London, but you can vote from anywhere. If you live abroad, you've got to do it. Every single vote will count." She asks American ex-pats: "Where on earth will you vote?" The video concludes: "Vote Democrat. Vote Obama. Vote From Abroad." The video, which will be distributed on the internet, was produced by Democrats Abroad, a division of the party devoted to persuading the millions of Americans living outside the country and eligible to vote to keep participating in domestic politics.

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Bullet 333Rick Green, President, Torch of Freedom Foundation
Bullet 333Colin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom Ring USA
Bullet 333Dr. Janice Hollis, Bishop, Progressive Believers Ministries
Bullet 333Bishop Harry R. Jackson, Senior Pastor, Hope Christian Church
Bullet 333Gary Marx, Executive Director, Judicial Confirmation Network
Bullet 333Joe Murray, Columnist, The Bulletin
Bullet 333Grover Norquist, President, Americans for Tax Reform (ATR)

7/31/2008 | American History, Presidential Issues

Political ads hit MTV, Comedy Central

San Francisco Chronicle

A national political ad appeared on Comedy Central TV for the first time Wednesday night. Why hasn't that happened before? Because nobody thought voters were watching. But public perception of the channel, the home of such shows as "South Park," has changed as "The Colbert Report" and "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" have become must-stops for major political players and the places where many younger, well-informed voters get their news. With that in mind, the online hub MoveOn sponsored a 30-second pro-Obama spot on MTV on Tuesday and on Comedy Central Wednesday night. It followed an anti-Obama ad broadcast on MTV last week that was paid for by the conservative group Let Freedom Ring. That political ad was the first ever to appear on MTV. The ads are a sign that the opposing sides are trying to court younger voters in unprecedented ways.

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Bullet 333Peter Lillback, President, Westminster Theological Seminary
Bullet 333Gary Marx, Executive Director, Judicial Confirmation Network
Bullet 333Joe Murray, Columnist, The Bulletin
Bullet 333Grover Norquist, President, Americans for Tax Reform (ATR)

7/30/2008 | American History, Presidential Issues

New Front Opens In Battle For Young Voters

National Journal Online

Every election cycle raises the same fundamental question about young voters: Will they matter this time around? While turnout among this bloc was up in this year's primaries -- 6.5 million people between the ages of 18 and 30 voted, nearly doubling results from the 2000 election -- experts debate whether this will be the year of the youth vote. Barack Obama's own youth and outsider message seem to resonate with those under 30, and he holds a strong lead there, 61 percent to John McCain's 31 percent, according to Gallup. But partisans from both sides are expanding efforts to reach out to young voters, and the GOP is by no means ceding this group to the Illinois senator. MTV has created a new opening for those trying to reach young people this year by overturning its 27-year ban on political advertising. Jeannie Kedas, executive vice president of communications for MTV, said that, "given that the youth vote has been increasingly engaged in the election this year and has played a growing role," the network decided it was time to take a second look at its advertising policy. The network also thought it would complement their Choose or Lose initiative, a get-out-the-vote effort the network has sponsored every election year since 1992. According to Kedas, the network will accept ads from candidates and party committees and will consider third-party ads on a case-by-case basis. Ads from two outside groups hit the air recently; both took Obama as their subject, although that was about the only thing they had in common politically. Let Freedom Ring, a conservative advocacy nonprofit, became the first group to take advantage of MTV's opening, launching an attack against Obama late last week. In "Both Ways Barack," (subscription), an announcer says that Obama's not a flip-flopper -- "flip-floppers only hold one position at a time." The ad goes on to cite handgun policy, campaign financing and Iraq as areas where the Democratic candidate has made contradictory statements. The spot debuted on VH1, MSNBC, CNN and Fox News on Tuesday and was then released on MTV Wednesday. Let Freedom Ring President Colin Hanna told MTV News that the group did not make a concerted effort to run the first political ad on the network, but that he was pleased to be "breaking the mold." He also acknowledged that targeting MTV was an effort to reach out to a different audience and said that if he had the ad buy to do over again, he might have opted to spend more resources there than on Fox News. "We want to go after people who are in the political middle and are not fully committed on this race," he said. MoveOn.org, which has endorsed Obama, responded Monday by releasing a pro-Obama ad on MTV and Comedy Central, both owned by Viacom. "It Could Happen To You," (subscription) spoofs public service announcements to "warn" young people that supporting Obama could lead them to regain a sense of hope. "I never thought it could happen to me," a young man says. "I have hope," another reveals. The ad features actors Rider Strong of "Boy Meets World" and Amber Benson of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and was voted the funniest video in MoveOn's "Obama In 30 Seconds" ad contest. MoveOn is spending $150,000 to run the spot for one week. "It Could Happen To You" is reported to be the first political ad to run on Comedy Central, home to faux-news shows, "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report," where a sizable number of young people turn to get their political information. "I think that the campaigns are smart to pay special attention to reaching out to young people," Kedas said. Neither the McCain or Obama campaign has yet announced plans to purchase time on MTV. By Mary Gilbert

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7/29/2008 | Presidential Issues

Obama Wins Young Evangelical Voters in Battleground-State Push

Bloomberg

Sophomore Michelle Miller is the head of her university's Obama for America chapter, and she's doing everything she can to get him elected. That isn't surprising, considering the 46-year-old senator's popularity among college voters. What is surprising is Miller's college: Liberty University, the Christian school in Lynchburg, Virginia, started by Moral Majority founder Jerry Falwell. It's an unlikely place for fans of a Democrat who defends abortion rights and gay civil unions. Miller, 23, calls recruiting political converts there ``an uphill battle.'' Still, the group's existence signals an opening for Barack Obama among conservative evangelicals -- especially younger ones -- that may help sway the outcome of the presidential vote in states like Virginia and Florida.

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Bullet 333Bishop Harry R. Jackson, Senior Pastor, Hope Christian Church
Bullet 333Gary Marx, Executive Director, Judicial Confirmation Network
Bullet 333Joe Murray, Columnist, The Bulletin
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7/29/2008 | American History, Character and Ethics, Presidential Issues

Obama Struggles To Gain Evangelicals' Vote

The Bulletin

A new survey released this month is beginning to cast doubt over Barack Obama's ability to woo white moderate Evangelicals and Mainline Protestants from the Republican Party - a political maneuver that would make it increasingly difficult for John McCain to build a winning coalition this November. There is no doubt Mr. Obama has long had his eye on the religious vote this election season. Starting as early as the South Carolina primary, the Obama campaign orchestrated gospel music tour throughout the Palmetto State to help bolster his Christian credentials in a traditionally red state. "One thing that it clearly is indicative of this poll is that this nation cares about the Christian values and ethics of a candidate for national office. And it makes enough difference that the news media reports on it," explained Ralf Augstroze, executive director of The Providence Forum. "People of faith have always been involved in the political process. They have a patriotic and scriptural obligation to do so. It is to be ignored at the candidate's peril."

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7/29/2008 | Economy, Presidential Issues

Obama to Meet With Bernanke

The Wall Street Journal

As part of a week-long shift back to economic issues, Barack Obama will meet with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Tuesday, his campaign confirmed. The two are expected to discuss the current credit crisis and Sen. Obama's plans to enforce tougher oversight of financial institutions if elected president. The likely Democratic nominee is also scheduled to speak to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson by phone Tuesday, campaign officials said. The meetings come as Sen. Obama tries to pivot back to economic issues after returning from a 10-day foreign trip that sparked Republican criticism over his foreign policy credentials.

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7/28/2008 | Presidential Issues

Daily Presidential Tracking Poll

Rasmussen Reports

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that Barack Obama’s Berlin bounce is fading. Obama now attracts 45% of the vote while John McCain earns 42%. When "leaners" are included, it’s Obama 48% and McCain 45%. Both Obama and McCain are viewed favorably by 56% of voters. Tracking Polls are released at 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time each day. Tracking results are based upon nightly telephone interviews with 1,000 Likely Voters and reported on a three-day rolling average basis. Following his speech in Berlin, Obama enjoyed two very strong nights of polling on Thursday and Friday. His lead grew to six-points for results released on Saturday (see recent daily results). However, polling on Saturday and Sunday showed the candidates much closer with single-day results similar to polling from before the Berlin speech. Obama earns the vote from 77% of Democrats, McCain is supported by 82% of Republicans. Unaffiliated voters are evenly divided. See other recent demographic highlights on Election 2008. Other key stats of Election 2008 are updated daily at Obama-McCain: By the Numbers.

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7/23/2008 | Politics, Presidential Issues

Obama is Worse Than a Flip-Flopper!

Let Freedom Ring

Let Freedom Ring launched its first ad campaign of this election cycle today titled, “Both Ways Barack”, pointing out that presidential candidate Barack Obama has conflicting positions on many issues and “holds two positions at the same time” making him “worse than a flip-flopper.” The ad may be viewed in its entirety at www.BothWaysBarack.com The television campaign will be featured on CNN, MSNBC and FOX, awaiting clearance from other national broadcast and cable networks. Several hundred thousand dollars will be spent on the campaign. Colin Hanna, president of the group, said "We have a multi-pronged strategy. This will not be the only thing you hear from Let Freedom Ring." Hanna said the group will continue its efforts whether or not they are welcomed by the McCain campaign. "Senator McCain's personal desires should not be a part of our consideration. In fact, to do so, would approach the legally impermissible question of coordination." The transcript reads, “People are saying that Senator Obama’s recent changes of position have made him a flip-flopper. He’s not! Flip-floppers only hold one position at a time. Senator Obama is different: he holds two positions at the same time. Both ways on banning handguns. Both ways on public campaign financing. And now, both ways on withdrawing from Iraq. He’s “Both Ways Barack.” Worse than a flip-flopper! Let Freedom Ring is responsible for the content of this advertising.” For more information on Let Freedom Ring go to www.LetFreedomRingUSA.com. To view the “Both Ways Barack” commercial go to www.BothWaysBarack.com.

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Bullet 333Colin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom Ring USA
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7/22/2008 | Presidential Issues

Andrea on Obama Trip: 'What Some Would Call Fake Interviews'

Media Research Center

Andrea Mitchell might be a doyenne of the liberal media, but she has her reporter's pride and principles, both of which have been trampled by the way the Obama campaign has managed the media during the candidate's current trip to Afghanistan and Iraq. Mitchell let loose on this evening's Hardball, speaking of "fake interviews" and indicating we don't know the truth of the trip because we don't know what was edited out of the video that's been released. Before Mitchell made her displeasure known, Roger Simon of Politico, Chris Matthews's other guest during the segment, depicted the images coming out of the war zone as all Obama could have dreamed of.

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7/22/2008 | Presidential Issues

Obama Labeled Worse Than A 'Flip-Flopper'

The Bulletin

Is Sen. Barack Obama a flip-flopper? According to the West Chester-based group Let Freedom Ring, the answer is no. Rather, Mr. Obama is much worse than a flip-flopper, he is someone who wants it both ways. "People are saying that Sen. Obama's recent changes of position have made him a flip-flopper. He's not! Flip-floppers only hold one position at a time," the announcer says. "Sen. Obama is different: he holds two positions at the same time. Both ways on banning handguns. Both ways on public-campaign financing. And now, both ways on withdrawing from Iraq. He's 'Both Ways Barack.' Worse than a flip-flopper!" The ad comes at a time when Mr. Obama has stumbled as he has attempted to transition from being a primary candidate beholden to his party's Left flank for support to a general election nominee desperately seeking to pitch a tent in the moderate middle. The ad will start its run today on MSNBC and CNN.

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7/21/2008 | Presidential Issues, Politics

Independent Ad Knocks Obama

Wall Street Journal

While the role of outside groups has been somewhat muted during the 2008 campaigns, that may not last much longer. An independent group called Let Freedom Ring has begun to reserve advertising time on national broadcast and cable networks for a commercial that attacks Democratic Sen. Barack Obama as not just a "flip flopper" but someone who "holds two positions at the same time." Colin Hanna, president of the group, said this morning that "The actual buy is being worked on as we speak. We have submitted the copy and the tape to all of the major broadcast and cable networks and are going through the clearance process."

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7/17/2008 | Presidential Issues

Media stars will accompany Obama overseas

International Herald Tribune

WASHINGTON: Senator John McCain's trip to Iraq last spring was a low-key affair: With his ordinary retinue of reporters following him abroad, the NBC News anchor Brian Williams reported on his arrival in Baghdad from New York, with just two sentences tacked onto the "in other political news" portion of his newscast. But when Obama heads for Iraq and other locations overseas this summer, Williams is planning to catch up with him in person, as are the other two evening news anchors, Charles Gibson of ABC and Katie Couric of CBS, who, like Williams, are far along in discussions to interview Obama on successive nights.

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7/16/2008 | Presidential Issues

May We Mock, Barack?

The New York Times

Many of the late-night comics and their writers — nearly all white — now admit to The New York Times’s Bill Carter that because of race and because there is nothing “buffoonish” about Obama — and because many in their audiences are intoxicated by him and resistant to seeing him skewered — he has not been flayed by the sort of ridicule that diminished Dukakis, Gore and Kerry. “There’s a weird reverse racism going on,” Jimmy Kimmel said. Carter also observed that there’s no easy comedic “take” on Obama, “like allegations of Bill Clinton’s womanizing, or President Bush’s goofy bumbling or Al Gore’s robotic personality.”

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Bullet 333Dr. Janice Hollis, Bishop, Progressive Believers Ministries
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Bullet 333Joe Murray, Columnist, The Bulletin
Bullet 333Grover Norquist, President, Americans for Tax Reform (ATR)

7/16/2008 | Presidential Issues

What's new: Views on race relations aren't changing

The New York Times

"Obama candidacy isn't closing divide on race:" "Americans are sharply divided by race heading into the first election in which an African-American will be a major-party presidential nominee, with blacks and whites holding vastly different views of (Democratic) Senator Barack Obama, the state of race relations and how black Americans are treated by society, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll. ... More than 80% of black voters said they had a favorable opinion of Mr. Obama; about 30% of white voters said they had a favorable opinion of him. Nearly 60% of black respondents said race relations were generally bad, compared with 34% of whites. Four in 10 blacks say that there has been no progress in recent years in eliminating racial discrimination; fewer than 2 in 10 whites say the same thing. And about one-quarter of white respondents said they thought that too much had been made of racial barriers facing black people, while one-half of black respondents said not enough had been made of racial impediments faced by blacks."

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7/16/2008 | Gender Issues, Presidential Issues

Obama strategy: Equal pay, not abortion

Politico.Com

Move over, Jane Roe. Lilly Ledbetter has taken her place as the name on the tongue of Democrats courting female voters. On June 23, Barack Obama kicked off a “discussion for working women” with a speech directed at working mothers that criticized John McCain for his support of conservative judges, decisions and legislation. But he didn’t once mention or even allude to abortion or Roe v. Wade. Instead, he keyed in on Ledbetter, the woman whose suit against Goodyear for pay discrimination was thrown out by the Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision last year delivered by Justice Samuel Alito. The decision upheld a lower court’s ruling that she only had 180 days after she was hired to discover the pay disparity and file suit. The court’s decision in the case, Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., had already been cited 221 times in decisions by lower federal courts as of late April, according to the Alliance for Justice. Earlier this year, the Fair Pay Restoration Act — which would have effectively undone Ledbetter by giving women more leeway to file discrimination suits and was co-sponsored by both Obama and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton — failed to pass the Senate.

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7/15/2008 | Economy, Oil and Gas, Presidential Issues

Bush Acts on Drilling, Challenging Democrats

The New York Times

WASHINGTON — President Bush lifted nearly two decades of executive orders banning drilling for oil and natural gas off the country’s shoreline on Monday while challenging Congress to open up more areas for exploration to address soaring energy prices. Democrats in Congress, joined by environmentalists, criticized the step and ridiculed it as ineffectual, while most Republicans and industry representatives applauded it as long overdue. The lifting of the moratorium — first announced by Mr. Bush’s father, President George Bush, in 1990 and extended by President Bill Clinton — will have no real impact because a Congressional moratorium on drilling enacted in 1981 and renewed annually remains in force. And there appeared to be no consensus for lifting it in tandem with Mr. Bush’s action.

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7/15/2008 | Border Issues, Illegal Immigration, Presidential Issues

McCain rejects Obama attack on immigration

Yahoo News

SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful John McCain defended himself on Monday against charges from Democrat Barack Obama that he adopted a more aggressive stance against illegal immigration for political purposes. McCain's support among Hispanic Americans is lagging behind that of Obama, who has attracted many Hispanics who had supported Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton. Hispanics are a key constituency in the November 4 election and could make a difference in several battleground states.

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7/15/2008 | Iraq, Presidential Issues, U.S. Military

Shift on war hits Obama's liberal base

The Washington Times

Sen. John McCain on Monday accused his Democratic presidential rival of flip-flopping on the war in Iraq, as a pair of new polls showed the Republican's strategy of painting Sen. Barack Obama as politically expedient is beginning to take hold with voters. As Mr. Obama repositions himself for the general election after exclusively targeting the Democratic base of committed liberals, it leaves some voters on the left feeling he is abandoning them on their top issue - Iraq - and has independents questioning his veracity. "If a perception takes hold that a candidate is flip-flopping on core convictions, that will hurt," pollster Scott Rasmussen said, noting that nearly a third of voters are "up for grabs" this fall.

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7/14/2008 | Economy, Presidential Issues

A new American reality: The government as provider

International Herald Tribune

NEW YORK: In a country that holds itself up as a citadel of free enterprise, Washington has morphed from being the lender of last resort into effectively the only resort for home loans for millions of Americans engaged in the largest transactions of their lives. Before, the government's more modest mission was to make more loans available at lower rates. Now it is to make sure the loans that matter most to middle class Americans are made at all. The new reality is scorned by libertarians and conservatives, who fear intrusions by the state in the market, and by populists and progressives, who rue a society in which education and housing increasingly rest upon the government's willingness to finance it. "If you're a socialist, you should be happy," said Michael Lind, a fellow at the New America Foundation, a research institute in Washington. "But you should really wonder whether you want people's ability to pay for housing and college dependent on the motives of people in Washington."

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