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...agreed with the notion that Obama "isn't white or black; he's a little of both." Obama receives a favorable rating from more than 2 out of 3 economically stressed voters, far ahead of the ratings for McCain or his running mate, Sarah Palin, whose appeal outside the Republican base has been evaporating. The net result is that Obama has overtaken McCain among that volatile and often decisive demographic group: white women. And he has narrowed McCain's lead among white...
...strolled the downtown sidewalks along which the former President took his morning constitutional after he returned home from building the postwar world. In a shop near the courthouse, I asked the woman behind the counter what she was thinking about the election. She replied that she was a lifelong Republican and a big fan of Palin. "I find Sarah refreshing," she said. "More of a doer than a talker, down-to-earth, with family problems like the rest of us. You know, to a certain extent, we're all swimming upstream in life...
...fellow warrior. In other words, if Obama - a first-term Senator with an exotic name, liberal politics and a thin résumé - doesn't win, it will be for a lot of the same reasons other Democrats have lost, including the fact that Americans have leaned toward Republican Presidents for nearly 60 years...
...left an Obama brochure in the door of each.) At one, the woman at the door told him she was "leaning" toward McCain, though I thought she seemed more settled in her decision than that. At another, a teen-aged girl told him: "My dad is a super-strong Republican. You're probably at the wrong house." (He duly marked that down, to save future canvassers the trouble.) Still, the yard signs we saw suggested that this was in fact a neighborhood divided. We discovered that was true when we approached another house on the list and found a father...
...easily be the difference between winning and losing. Obama campaign manager David Plouffe calls his ground operation the "field goal unit," and it was one of the big reasons the Illinois Senator bested Hillary Clinton in the primaries. But Obama's team has yet to be tested against a Republican operation that was built and perfected over decades, culminating in the astonishing ground game that put George W. Bush over...