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CAMPAIGN SCORECARD [This article contains a table. Please see hardcopy of magazine or PDF.] ROUND 1 2 3 4 ISSUE Economy Resources Consistency Party Unity ACTION Republicans have their choice of two painful metaphors: a broken record or Groundhog Day. The same darn pattern repeats itself: bad economic news highlights an unpopular President Bush, drives voters to the Democrats, boosts Barack Obama's proposals and draws the press to the late front runner. If John McCain knows how to stop the cycle, he hasn't revealed it. Once upon a time, Obama reneged on a promise to limit public campaign...
...week's winner is based on the relative importance of each fight and by how much the winner takes each round...
...weeks, Paulson had held off on direct investment, preferring instead to use the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), passed by Congress on its second go-round, to buy toxic mortgage-related assets from the banks. The bank bailout will be funded out of that budget, and the Treasury still plans to start buying troubled assets in the next month or so. But that wasn't soon enough for worried investors or for Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, who according to inside reports had been advocating for a recapitalization for months. Money flowed out of the stock market, including that...
...countries to adjust their monetary and fiscal regimes without fear of deflation or devaluation. And a landscape populated by an array of multilateral institutions like the IMF, the World Bank and the WTO has nurtured habits of international economic cooperation in times of crisis, as witnessed by the recent round of consultation among the G-7 countries and the coordinated efforts of finance ministries and central banks around the world to restore confidence and liquidity in the credit markets...
...Only weeks ago, you might have expected that McCain's greater experience and his courage in the clutch would lift him as a leader in a moment of crisis. Yet the turn of the polls suggests the reverse; without taking a dramatically different approach on substance, Obama won this round on style and disposition. Both candidates supported the bailout, and both call for tax cuts and policing of markets, but in tenor, they were polar opposites. Temperament is in the eye of the voter. Is one response evidence of composure and self-possession - or of being too laid-back...