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Obama's Fascinating Interview with Cathleen Falsani - Steven Waldman
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http://blog.beliefnet.com/stevenwaldman/2008/11/obamas-interview-with-cathleen.html
Doubting Obama: A Response to Harper's and Simon Critchley | Media/Culture | ReligionDispatches
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http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/mediaculture/758/doubting_obama%3A_a_response_to_h...
Sarah Palin blamed by the US Secret Service for death threats against Barack Obama - Telegraph
The Secret Service reports a spike in death threats to the Obama family corresponding with Palin's incendiary rhetoric attacking Obama's patriotism in her speeches.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/sarahpalin/3405336/Sarah-Palin-bla...
Raghida Dergham, "Will Obama Be Reagan Or Gorbachev?," Al-Arabiya (Nov. 8, 2008)
Commentary originally published in al-Hayat (London). Some interesting speculation on the makeup of Obama's cabinet.
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http://www.alarabiya.net/views/2008/11/08/59706.html
Obama Is the New Reagan - The Daily Beast
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-11-04/obama-is-the-new-reagan
MoveOn.org Political Action: Free Obama stickers by Shepard Fairey
Okay, this is pure hype, but it's a cool piece of design.
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http://pol.moveon.org/shepstickers
Kenyans Rejoice in Obama Victory - washingtonpost.com
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/05/AR2008110501854.html
Boston.com's collection of Obama photos from late 2008
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http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/11/the_next_president_of_the_unit.html
Nation Finally Shitty Enough To Make Social Progress | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
This is pretty much spot on.
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http://www.theonion.com/content/news/nation_finally_shitty_enough_to
Callie Shell - Obama - Digital Journalist
Lots of candid photographs of Barack Obama from TIME photographer Callie Shell, starting back in 2006. Some pretty impressive work.
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http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0810/callie-bp.html
Laurie Goodstein, "YouTube Videos Draw Attention to Palin’s Faith," New York Times (Oct. 24, 2008)
A reasonably accurate, fair-minded profile by NYT religion-beat regular Goodstein about Sarah Palin's "spiritual warfare" and "prayer warrior" background.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/25/us/politics/25faith.html?_r=1&oref=login&partner=permalink...
Jim Bramlett @ inJesus.com: "Block African witchcraft curses against McCain and Palin NOW!"
An evangelical website urges readers to engage in "spiritual warfare" to "block African witchcraft curses" which are "weaving lazy 8's around McCain's mind" to make him appear "like an id...
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http://www.injesus.com/index.php?module=message&task=view&MID=CB007FA2&GroupID=2A004N9G&labe...
Christopher Burbach, "McCain, Obama use personal stories about Christianity to reach faith-based voters," Omaha World-Herald (Oct. 18, 2008)
Some discussion, including quotations from Martin Mary (who's evidently an Obama man), of the personal faith narratives as elements of the campaign strategy for both candidates.
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http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=1219
Christopher Burbach, "McCain, Obama use personal stories about Christianity to reach faith-based voters," Omaha World-Herald (Oct. 18, 2008)
Some discussion, including quotations from Martin Mary (who's evidently an Obama man), of the personal faith narratives as elements of the campaign strategy for both candidates.
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http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=1219&u_sid=10462888
Palin: "I don't know if you'd use the word 'terrorist'" for abortion-clinic bombers
Brian Williams interviews McCain and Palin on the NBC Nightly News, Oct. 23, 2008. There's a lot in this interview, but I'm clipping it mainly because of what it shows about the slipperin...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw5SA7Hks9s
Lou Zickar, "As Obama channels Reagan, the real McCain vanishes," Chicago Tribune (Oct. 19, 2008)
A really interesting piece of commentary about the relationship between politics and charisma. The author is a long-time Reagan Republican who's considering a vote for Obama because, to h...
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-perspec1019riponoct19,0,5498421.story
FiveThirtyEight.com: Electoral Projections Done Right: On the Road: Western Pennsylvania
From the page: 'So a canvasser goes to a woman's door in Washington, Pennsylvania. Knocks. Woman answers. Knocker asks who she's planning to vote for. She isn't sure, has to ask her husb...
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http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/10/on-road-western-pennsylvania.html
A group of professors tries to mount a defense of Bill Ayers (from Inside Higher Ed)
I wonder if these idiots realize that this is going to hurt their presumptive candidate (Obama) way more than it could possibly help him. Right, another pack of pointy-headed arugula-eate...
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http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/10/14/ayers
George F. Will - McCain in a Bear Market - washingtonpost.com
George Will is scathing on McCain. Seen on Cee Bee's Friendfeed stream.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/08/AR2008100802926.html
Survey: Evangelicals back John McCain; other religious voters shift to Barack Obama | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | Religion | The Dallas Morning News
Excerpt:" In a significant shift in party support from four years ago, monthly churchgoers are backing Democrat Barack Obama in this year’s presidential race, according to a new poll."
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http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/religion/stories/100908dnpolevangelicalvoters...
Indicting the hacker who broke into Sarah Palin's private email - Harpers.org
The DOJ has mounted an extraordinary case against the hacker who revealed Sarah Palin's apparent systematic violation of the Open Records Act (by using a private email address to conduct ...
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http://harpers.org/archive/2008/10/hbc-90003672
Tim Dickinson, "Make-Believe Maverick," Rolling Stone (Oct. 16, 2008) - an exposé on McCain
Rolling Stone publishes one of its standard attack pieces on McCain. They manage to get a lot of pretty damning quotations from some former close associates, even some current friends, an...
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http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/make_believe_maverick_the_real_john_mccain
Palin treads carefully between fundamentalist beliefs and public policy - Los Angeles Times
Palin apparently told a left-wing Alaska blogger that she believed that "dinosaurs and humans walked the Earth at the same time" back in 1997. Via BoingBoing Annotated link http://www.di...
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http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-palinreligion28-2008sep28,0,3643718.story?track=rss
Another arugula-eating professor for Obama Bumper sticker from Zazzle.com
As a professor who also happens to enjoy the occasional arugula leaf in my salads, I found this kind of amusing.
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http://www.zazzle.com/another_arugula_eating_professor_for_obama_bumpersticker-1289832182426...
Your chance to ask Sarah Palin a question, sort of
What an idea. The Democrats have set up a mobile electronic billboard near a Palin rally near LA, and anyone can text a "question for Sarah Palin" to an SMS shortcode and it will be displ...
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http://www.cadem.org/site/c.jrLZK2PyHmF/b.4594449/apps/ka/ct/contactcustom.asp
Arugula, the salad green of America-hating elitist professor types!
I knew there had to be a story on this somewhere. Arugula, the salad green of elitists, America haters, and "pointy-headed professor types" everywhere. But what evidence do we really have...
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/22/AR2008082202958.html
newsobserver.com | All politics is arugula this year
I knew there had to be a story on this somewhere. Arugula, the salad green of elitists and "pointy-headed professor types" everywhere.
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http://www.newsobserver.com/105/story/1201969.html
Fake pollsters' scare tactics target Obama | World news | The Guardian
Anti-Obama push-polling starts to appear in Pennsylvania, Florida, and elsewhere in the U.S., including questions like, "Would you be less likely to vote for Obama if you knew he were sup...
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/03/uselections2008.barackobama1
Clipmark: Think your vote will count in November? Don't be so sure
Interview with Bobby Kennedy, Jr., on various allegations of vote-suppression schemes. My first instinct on reading this is to think, "conspiracy nut." But it's not actually as far-fetche...
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http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/3DE565FF-D8E5-4FA4-B2BD-1133B83B3C16
GOP seeks ban on political clothing at polling places | Philadelphia Inquirer | 09/18/2008
The Pennsylvania GOP, seeking to make polling places into a "safe harbor," wants to deny people entrance to voting booths who show up wearing political T-shirts or buttons. This will be t...
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http://www.philly.com/philly/news/breaking/20080918_GOP_seeks_ban_on_political_clothing_at_p...
t r u t h o u t | RFK Jr., Mike Papantonio: "Is Your Vote Safe?"
There is some real doubt as to whose votes will actually get to count in the November 2008 federal elections. It's worth reading the whole interview. Annotated link http://www.diigo.com...
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http://www.truthout.org/article/rfk-jr-and-mike-papantonio-is-your-vote-safe
Voter Suppression Wiki Home - Voter Suppression Wiki
Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fvotersuppressionwiki.wetpaint.com%2F%3Ft%3Danon
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http://votersuppressionwiki.wetpaint.com/?t=anon
Rabbis launch pro-Obama group - JTA, Jewish
Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jta.org%2Fcgi-bin%2Fiowa%2Fnews%2Farticle%2F2008091620080916rabbisforobama.html
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http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/2008091620080916rabbisforobama.html
Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the McCain campaign
After publicly accusing Obama of being in the pocket of the mortgage industry (based largely on the claim that Raines was an Obama adviser, which has since proven to have no basis in fact...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/22/us/politics/22mccain.html?_r=1&oref=slogin