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...campaign's strategy against Obama is actually kind of shocking. For years, the recipe for injecting race into a political campaign has been clear. First, invoke the specter of black crime, as Lee Atwater did in 1988 when he vowed to turn murderer Willie Horton into Michael Dukakis' "running mate." Second, attack lazy people in the inner city, as Ronald Reagan did in 1976 when he condemned a Chicago "welfare queen." Third, bash affirmative action, as the late North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms did in 1990 when he ran an ad showing white hands crumpling a job rejection notice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Barack Obama American Enough? | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

...Palin. The ink on Kristol's column had barely dried before they were on the phone to political reporters declaring that the GOP nominee had long believed it would be inappropriate to raise the Wright issue. But McCain's current sensitivity is much more related to his running mate's own pastor problems than to any newfound campaign honor code...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does Sarah Palin Have a Pentecostal Problem? | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

...part of the Obama campaign's vow to shell out a whopping $39 million in Florida this fall. "We too are saturating Facebook,"says York, whose group has reached out to younger voters with slogans like "Vote for the Hero and the Hottie," referring to McCain and his running mate, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. "But the Republican Party needs to get more serious and creative about this group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Young Voters Could Be the Deciding Factor in Florida | 10/8/2008 | See Source »

...bafflingly, obliged). The officers' initial attempts at intimidation ("Did you touch his hat?" one constable said in a menacing reference to the police cap his colleague had rested on a railing against which the young men were leaning) dwindled to good-humored teasing: "This isn't a camera, mate, it's an ugly meter," an officer said as he took pictures. Eventually, the cops seemed to give up. One of the young men even convinced the officers that taking his picture would infringe his human rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who's Afraid of the Bad-Boy Cops? | 10/8/2008 | See Source »

...whose electoral votes will determine the outcome of his contest with Democratic nominee Barack Obama. The roller-coaster ride that has been McCain's presidential campaign has come to rest in a very bad place, with a candidate who has been angry and sarcastic on the trail, a running mate who is best known for being late-night comedy fodder, a dearth of momentum and, worst of all, an economic crisis that has pulverized Republican prospects across the board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can McCain Turn the Tide in Debate No. 2? | 10/7/2008 | See Source »

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