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TIME/CNN poll: MCCAIN 51, OBAMA...
...Campaigning for Obama? In "The Lying Game," Joe Klein deployed his facts selectively to argue that Senator John McCain is running a dishonest campaign [Sept. 29]. Wow - so Barack Obama hasn't told any lies? Klein then predicted that things would change in the debates, since "it isn't easy to tell lies when your opponent is standing right next to you." Oops! After that column appeared, 70 million people watched and heard Vice-Presidential candidate Joe Biden tell 15 documented falsehoods, including the claim that he regularly patronizes Katie's Restaurant, in Wilmington, Delaware, which has been closed...
...also have given her cover on the campaign trail. Fey's Palin is no love letter--falsely confident, hapless, antiscience and calculatedly adorable--but she's harmless compared with the Real Palin we've seen lately: a culture warrior cannily playing on resentments, a mouthpiece for the McCain campaign's ugliest character attacks on Barack Obama...
...polls, while surveys show voters still trust Barack Obama more on the issue. Obama has solidified his hold on almost every blue state, taken the lead in almost every purple state and gained small but solid leads in several large red states, including Ohio and Florida. John McCain was already bound by a limited set of combinations to reach 270 electoral votes; now, without a major change in the race's dynamic, he has no clear path. Sarah Palin revitalized her image with a folksy, defiant presentation, and McCain found a way to attack Obama with a smile, but neither...
Back-to-back weeks of domination have left the Democrats in control of their destiny. It will take a slew of Obama errors, an outside event favoring McCain and an outsize racial-voting pattern for McCain to get back in contention...