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...slight margins in both 2000 and 2004, McCain trails Obama by 3 points, with the support of 47% of voters, compared with Obama's 50%. Obama also holds a statistically significant 8-point lead over McCain in New Hampshire and a 5-point lead in Wisconsin, two states that Democrat John Kerry was able...
...charm, which has been sorely lacking of late. Adding even more complexity, the format for this debate is a town hall, with most of the questions coming from voters in the auditorium, which could potentially limit McCain's ability to play rough when trying to score points against the Democrat...
...person who believes the investment can pay off is Senator Claire McCaskill, the Missouri Democrat who co-chairs Obama's national campaign. She used a similar strategy in 2006 to unseat Republican Jim Talent. McCaskill stumped hard and spent money across southern Missouri, traditionally Republican turf, narrowing her losses there and leaving Talent unable to overcome her huge advantages in the traditional Democratic strongholds of Kansas City and St. Louis. (View a gallery of campaign gaffes here...
...will likely sign on reluctantly as well. But even with Barack Obama calling some of the Blue Dogs to get their support, not all of them have been convinced. "I don't believe this bill is the right medicine to cure the disease," says Rep. Jim Matheson, a Utah Democrat who co-chairs the Blue Dogs. "The Senate version is even worse. It's larded up with more debt and doesn't include long-term reform language that would prevent this kind of crisis from happening again." Matheson, who voted against the first bill, remains a solid...
...mess and looks into tightening regulations to prevent a similar collapse. "Whatever we do today will start a process that will hopefully get us where we need to be in the not too distant future," says Representative Jim Clyburn of South Carolina, the No. 3 House Democrat. Members and candidates are now free to get back to the campaign trail for the final month before Election Day, but they are all mindful of the cost, both political and economic, of the crisis...