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...McCain adviser JIM WOOLSEY, accusing the Post of running an "inflammatory" story...
...This article contains a table. Please see hardcopy of magazine or PDF.] ROUND 1 2 3 4 ISSUE Endorsements Money Gaffes Coattails ACTION Colin Powell dramatically unveiled his cross-party support for Barack Obama on Meet the Press--complete with indictments of John McCain's campaign tactics, Sarah Palin's qualifications and George W. Bush's Supreme Court nominees. But it was the former Secretary of State and four-star general's testimony on Obama's readiness to be Commander in Chief that gave this endorsement its unusual megawattage and influence. If, as the saying goes, money is the mother...
...useful" part, at least, is confirmed by John McCain adviser Nancy Pfotenhauer's argument that her candidate would win in "real Virginia," as opposed to the D.C. suburbs. And it certainly had something to do with why McCain and Barack Obama mentioned Joe the Plumber in the final presidential debate more than 20 times and why McCain praised him on the stump as though he were Ronald Reagan...
...poll indicating that many white voters who lack college degrees would not vote for Obama because he is too "globalized," too "multicultural," too "cosmopolitan." I have news for Beinart. Many of the emigrants from the U.S.S.R. who came to the U.S. in the '70s and '80s support John McCain. A lot of us have undergraduate or graduate degrees. There is a simple reason for our choice: we already lived in a socialist country and left it. The U.S. surely would move in that direction should Obama win. Mikhail Godkin, SAN DIEGO, CALIF...
...found Elizabeth Gilbert's essay "A Family Divided" to be eminently sad [Oct. 20]. An Obama supporter, Gilbert tells us she is "losing sleep" over the possibility that her father will vote for McCain. She worries that it "could somehow threaten our affection." Really? I understand that many people are passionate in their political beliefs, but to obsess over your own father's political preferences to the point where you want to "scold him or force him to accept [your] worldview" strikes me as rather extreme and narrow-minded. Salvatore Astorina, BROOKLYN...