News For Wednesday Aug 6, 2008 News For Wednesday Aug 6, 2008

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Clinton aims to soothe delegates at Dem convention - Added 1 week ago

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is seeking a way for her delegates to be heard at the Democratic National Convention, telling supporters such a step will help unify a party that split between her and Sen. Barack Obama...

GOP's Pawlenty praises Obama's positive message - Added 1 week ago

Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, often mentioned as a possible running mate for Republican presidential candidate John McCain, said Wednesday GOP candidates would do well to adopt a positive tone like that of McCain's...

Judge: No changes to DNC security plan - Added 1 week ago

A federal judge declined Wednesday to change security restrictions for protesters at the Democratic National Convention, concluding that parade routes and a demonstration zone established by the city don't infringe on...

AdWatch: Obama ad ties McCain to Bush - Added 1 week ago

TITLE: "Original." LENGTH: 30 seconds. AIRING: In some if not all of the 18 states where Obama is on the air. SCRIPT: Announcer: "He's the original maverick," followed on the screen by the word, "Really?" McCain:...

Polls: Obama has slim national lead over McCain - Added 1 week ago

THE RACE: The presidential race nationally THE NUMBERS (CBS News) Barack Obama, 45 percent John McCain, 39 percent ___ OF INTEREST: Obama's lead in the CBS News poll has not changed since June. Combining undecided...

Obama' plan to put ads on gas pumps hits roadblock - Added 1 week ago

Democrat Barack Obama's plan to bring the debate over gas prices straight to the pumps hit a roadblock Wednesday. What sounded like a great way to reach a captive audience as they pumped $4-a-gallon gas into their car...

AdWatch: McCain says Obama would lose jobs - Added 1 week ago

TITLE: "Family." LENGTH: 30 seconds. AIRING: Colorado, Iowa, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin. SCRIPT: Announcer: "Is the biggest celebrity in the...

McCain says he'd push Congress to vote on energy - Added 1 week ago

Republican candidate John McCain on Wednesday called on Congress to return from its summer recess to address immediately the U.S. energy crisis, though he missed numerous energy-related votes in the Senate last year. ...

Obama pokes at McCain over tire-pressure issue - Added 1 week ago

Barack Obama taunted Republican presidential rival John McCain on Wednesday for first ridiculing him for advising voters to keep tires inflated and then later acknowledging that the practice saves gasoline. "It will be...

McCain, Obama discuss movies, TV viewing habits - Added 1 week ago

!!-- pobj:WVHUN101-0806081302 -->John McCain's favorite television commander in chief plays the first black U.S. president. Just the role Democrat Barack Obama is looking to fill. "You know, I hope that I and all...

Today on the presidential campaign trail - Added 1 week ago

IN THE HEADLINES Obama taunts McCain for criticizing him over tire pressure ... McCain says as president he would push Congress on energy issues, but he missed votes himself ... McCain, like Obama, will run TV ads...

Record number of US voters may cast paper ballots - Added 1 week ago

Come November, more Americans might cast their ballots on paper than in any other election in U.S. history. That wasn't supposed to happen. If everything had gone according to the government's $3 billion plan to...

Obama's Muslim outreach director resigns - Added 1 week ago

An attorney who volunteered to help Barack Obama improve his relationship with Muslim and Arab-Americans has resigned from the campaign amid questions about his connection to a fundamentalist imam. Mazen Asbahi started...

McCain opposes farm policies popular in Midwest - Added 1 week ago

Republican presidential candidate John McCain opposes the $300 billion farm bill and subsidies for ethanol, positions that both supporters and opponents say might cost him votes he needs in the upper Midwest this...

GOP's Pawlenty praises Obama's positive message - Added 1 week ago

Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, often mentioned as a possible running mate for Republican presidential candidate John McCain, said Wednesday GOP candidates would do well to adopt a positive tone like that of McCain's...

McCain to give Stevens money to Pa. 9/11 memorial - Added 1 week ago

Republican presidential candidate John McCain will give $5,000 that his campaign received from indicted Sen. Ted Stevens' political action committee to the Flight 93 National Memorial, a campaign spokesman said...

Poll: Nearly half hearing too much about Obama - Added 1 week ago

Barack Obama may be the fresh face in this year's presidential election, but nearly half say they're already tired of hearing about him, a poll says. With Election Day still three months away, 48 percent said they're...

Paris Hilton issues tart rebuttal to McCain ad - Added 1 week ago

Attention, America: Paris has spoken. Paris Hilton, the blonde, doe-eyed celebrity thrust into the presidential campaign in an ad by Republican candidate John McCain, issued a tart rebuttal Tuesday, albeit in a scantily...

McCain, too, will run Olympics ads - Added 2 weeks ago

John McCain won't cede the pricey Olympics airwaves to Barack Obama. The Republican presidential candidate plans to run $6 million worth of TV commercials on NBC broadcast and cable channels during the Summer Games in...

Detroit mayor's mother wins Mich. House race - Added 2 weeks ago

The mother of Detroit's mayor narrowly survived a primary election that focused on her scandal-plagued son as much as her own six terms in Congress. Democratic Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick overcame a city hall sex...

A look at McCain, Obama farm policies - Added 2 weeks ago

Major farm policies advanced by presidential rivals John McCain and Barack Obama: ___ McCAIN _Opposed a $300 billion farm bill approved by Congress this year over President Bush's veto. Opposes subsidies to divert...

Today on the presidential campaign trail - Added 2 weeks ago

IN THE HEADLINES Obama links GOP energy policy to economic downturn; McCain pushes for more nuclear power ... Paris Hilton spoofs McCain ad and proposes a solution to nation's energy crisis ... Lehrer, Ifill, Brokaw...

Obama, McCain diverge on solution for energy woes - Added 2 weeks ago

Democrat Barack Obama blamed Republican energy policies for some of the nation's economic woes Tuesday as his GOP rival John McCain advocated a large expansion of nuclear power. Both candidates roamed the economically...

Newspaper: Black reporter booted from McCain rally - Added 2 weeks ago

A newspaper has asked John McCain's campaign why a black reporter assigned to cover a rally was singled out by security and told to leave a backstage area. Stephen Price, a reporter for the Tallahassee Democrat, was...

AdWatch: McCain now says country is "worse off" - Added 2 weeks ago

TITLE: "Broken." LENGTH: 60 seconds. AIRING: In the 11 states where McCain is running ads. SCRIPT: Announcer: "Washington's broken. John McCain knows it. We're worse off than we were four years ago. Only McCain has...

Obama leads McCain nationally in AP-Ipsos poll - Added 2 weeks ago

Solid margins among women, minorities and young voters have powered Barack Obama to a 6 percentage point lead over John McCain in the presidential race, according to a poll released Tuesday. Obama is ahead of his...

Presidential debate commission chooses moderators - Added 2 weeks ago

The Commission on Presidential Debates on Tuesday named Jim Lehrer and Gwen Ifill of PBS, Tom Brokaw of NBC News and Bob Schieffer of CBS News as moderators of the three presidential debates and one vice presidential...

Six Republican senators to skip GOP convention - Added 2 weeks ago

Will he or won't he? Vice President Dick Cheney is one of the nation's most prominent Republicans, but there are doubts about whether he will attend the GOP convention. Cheney press secretary Megan Mitchell left the...

McCain ad pushes independence, distance from Bush - Added 2 weeks ago

John McCain conceded in a new television commercial on Tuesday that "we're worse off than we were four years ago," and said he is the candidate best positioned to usher in an era of change. "Washington's broken. John...

Today on the presidential campaign trail - Added 2 weeks ago

IN THE HEADLINES Obama links GOP energy policy to economic downturn; McCain pushes for more nuclear power ... Obama casts McCain as backer of Cheney's oil policies, overlooks own support of energy bill ... Obama ahead...

Hillary Clinton sets campaign dates for Obama - Added 2 weeks ago

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton plans to campaign for Barack Obama in Nevada and Florida this month, events expected to be her first solo campaign appearances for Obama since she lost the Democratic nomination contest. The...

Man heckles Obama about Pledge of Allegiance - Added 2 weeks ago

A man who wore press credentials and took photographs from a platform interrupted Barack Obama's town-hall meeting Tuesday by shouting complaints that the Democratic presidential candidate had not called for the...

Critical of McCain, Obama quiet on own energy vote - Added 2 weeks ago

Democratic candidate Barack Obama criticized Republican John McCain on Tuesday for taking a page out of "the Cheney playbook" on energy, overlooking his own support of oil-friendly policies that the unpopular vice...

How the AP-Ipsos poll was taken - Added 2 weeks ago

The Associated Press-Ipsos poll on the 2008 presidential race and President Bush was conducted July 31- Aug. 4, 2008. It is based on telephone interviews with a nationally representative random sample of 1,002 adults...

Play of the Day: Torn between peaches and fritters - Added 2 weeks ago

!!-- pobj:OHAB122-0805081215 -->Ah, the choices when shopping for fruits, sweets and votes. "I think this is the ticket right here. I might have to get a bag of those," Barack Obama said Tuesday as he pointed to a...

Negativity the norm in presidential campaign - Added 2 weeks ago

For all the talk about John McCain's hard-hitting politics, Barack Obama is hardly innocent. Both candidates and their allies are fully engaged in creating unflattering caricatures of each other that they hope will...

Young people finding Obama way cooler than McCain - Added 2 weeks ago

Forget the war for the White House for a moment. Among young people, Barack Obama appears to be beating John McCain in the battle for "cool." "Obama is a tad cooler than McCain on probably 57 fronts," said Emily...

Today on the presidential campaign trail - Added 2 weeks ago

IN THE HEADLINES McCain visits motorcycle rally as he buttresses his campaign outreach ... Obama embraces some offshore drilling and tapping petroleum stockpiles ... Obama's 47th birthday celebration includes serenade...

Obama backs some drilling, tapping oil stockpile - Added 2 weeks ago

Barack Obama put forward a broad energy plan Monday designed to end U.S. reliance on imported oil within 10 years and shore up his standing amid a tightening White House race and high anxiety over gas prices. Obama's...

Well-heeled serenade Obama on his 47th birthday - Added 2 weeks ago

It may take a few months for Barack Obama's birthday wish to come true. The expected Democratic presidential nominee turned 47 on Monday and shared his special day with hundreds of friends and other admirers, who paid...

McCain visiting motorcycle rally, nuke power plant - Added 2 weeks ago

Thousands of motorcyclists greeted Republican presidential candidate John McCain with an approving roar Monday as he sought blue-collar and heartland support by visiting a giant motorcycle rally. "As you may know, not...

Fact Check: Properly inflated tires cut gas use - Added 2 weeks ago

!!-- pobj:FLORL104-0801081756 -->John McCain and his Republican Party are gleefully mocking Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's suggestion that properly inflated tires could help save oil. The thing is,...

Michelle Obama describes duty as mother-in-chief - Added 2 weeks ago

Forget the pearls. Michelle Obama says her best accessory is her husband. "Barack and I _ as partners, as friends and as lovers _ we accessorize each other in many ways," said Obama, wife of Democratic presidential...

Today on the presidential campaign trail - Added 2 weeks ago

IN THE HEADLINES Obama proposes tapping nation's oil reserves to help drive down gasoline prices ... McCain visiting motorcycle rally, nuclear power plant as he buttresses his campaign outreach ... Former President...

Obama proposes tapping oil stockpiles - Added 2 weeks ago

Barack Obama put forward a broad energy plan Monday designed to end U.S. reliance on imported oil within 10 years and shore up his standing amid a tightening White House race and high-anxiety over gas prices. Obama's...

AdWatch: Obama's ad tells only part of the story - Added 2 weeks ago

TITLE: "Pocket" LENGTH: 30 seconds. AIRING: Running in rotation in the 18 states where Obama is already running ads SCRIPT: Announcer: "Every time you fill your tank, the oil companies fill their pockets. Now big...

Kennedy tapes video for Democratic convention - Added 2 weeks ago

Sen. Edward Kennedy will have a presence at the Democratic National Convention even if he can't make it to Denver. A Kennedy spokeswoman said Monday that the Massachusetts senator taped a five-minute video over the...

Obama makes bid in 7 longtime Republican states - Added 2 weeks ago

Alaska is young. Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia have growing populations and many black voters. Montana has seen recent Democratic inroads, and North Dakota has sent only Democrats to Congress since 1986. Indiana...

Paris Hilton's mom takes offense at McCain's humor - Added 2 weeks ago

Paris Hilton's mother doesn't share John McCain's sense of humor. McCain, the Republican presidential candidate, said last week that his campaign ad mocking Democrat Barack Obama with images of Hilton and singer...

Poll: McCain's attack strategy paying dividends - Added 2 weeks ago

Intensified attacks by Republican John McCain on the character of his Democratic opponent have coincided with Barack Obama losing a nine percentage point advantage in a national poll, which showed the candidates running...