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Palin's unpopularity with women may prove a drag on the ticket with the very constituency she initially inspired. Obama now leads McCain by 17 points among likely female voters, 55%-38%. Just after the Republican convention, a TIME poll had the two candidates virtually tied among women, 48% for Obama and 47% for McCain...
Last Friday, House Republicans greeted their leader, John Boehner, with a standing ovation. The reason for this outpouring of adulation: a day earlier Boehner, backed by John McCain, had shocked a meeting at the White House by standing up to Democrats and the Bush Administration and refusing to support the $700 billion emergency plan to rescue the economy. Boehner should have savored that moment, because it may be the most love the Ohio Representative will get for a long, long time...
...popular energy and business tax cuts and an increase to $250,000 in the amount in individual bank accounts that the FDIC will insure - should help. But if Boehner is once again unable to deliver the necessary votes, it could cost him his leadership job and further damage McCain's chances of winning the presidency...
...bringing McCain in to help, the House GOP leaders may have done more damage to their members' electoral chances. When McCain gets a cold - Obama now holds his widest leads yet in many polls - his coattails get pneumonia. After trailing Democrats in generic matchups for most of the year, early last month Republicans started to catch up, coming within 3 percentage points of the Democrats in a CNN/Opinion Research poll. The latest poll, however, done Sept. 19-22 - after Paulson's emergency request but before the failed vote - shows the Democrats have widened that lead to 14 percentage points...
...market crash (Roosevelt, of course, was not President then, and TV didn't even exist); contradicted his own running mate on the wisdom of the government bailout of AIG; colorfully confronted Obama's stance on gun laws; and objected to his own campaign's negative television advertisement disparaging John McCain's computer illiteracy...