By: In today's edition of news from newspaper campaign blogs: McCain cancels Letterman but goes on to do Couric, Winners in "Earmark Land," lots of Wal-Mart shoppers support McCain, but fewer Starbuck's sippers for Obama than we thought.
McCain cancels on Letterman; Letterman gets even
The Trail
The Washington Post
By Michael D. Shear
Sen. John McCain was due to tape a "Late Night with David Letterman" yesterday evening, but cancelled the taping after his dramatic announcement that he was suspending his campaign due to the financial crisis and returning to Washington. While taping the show, Letterman learned that McCain had gone to CBS to tape an interview with Katie Couric, however. Letterman's wit betrayed his feelings at various points during the taping of last night's show. "Hey Senator, can I give you a ride home? You don't suspend your campaign. This doesn't smell right, This isn't the way a tested hero behaves." He went on, according to Michael Shear at the Trail, "I think that someone is putting something in his Metamucil." The coup de grace, however, followed, "What are you going to do if you're elected and things get tough? Suspend being president? We've got a guy like that now!"
Winners and losers in "Earmark Land"
Washington Wire
Wall Street Journal
By John R Wilke
Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), who is facing federal corruption charges, managed to win more special-interest spending for his state this year than any other lawmaker, according to the nonpartisan budget watchdog Taxpayers for Common Sense. Wilke reported in yesterday's Washington Wire that according to spending bills just released, he scored more than $238.5 million in earmarks. Among the earmarks, $2 million for Hibernation Genomics, a project which investigates the use of hibernation as a technique to prevent and treat trauma from battlefield injuries. Congressman John Murtha, (D-Pennsylvania) came up on top in the House with $111.1 million and among his bills were a fund for disaster aid, Defense, Homeland Security, military construction and VA budgets. Other "earmarkers" of note: in the House, Rep. C.W. Bill Young (R.-Fla.) $99 million, and in the Senate, Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) 238.5 million.
Wal-Mart shoppers go for McCain and -- Starbucks sippers?
The Swamp
The Boston Globe
By Mark Silva
In a poll conducted by National Public Radio in 14 critical battleground states, McCain has a slight advantage or a statistical tie -- McCain 46% to Obama's 44%. NPR also discovered interesting cultural divides among the voters in the 14 states. For example, among Wal-Mart shoppers, McCain is the favorite (58%-33%), perhaps not a surprise, although Michelle Obama only recently resigned her position on the board of TreeHouse Foods, a vendor which supplies Wal-Mart. And one might think that all of those "latte sippers" at Starbucks were for Obama? Not so, according to the NPR survey. 42% favored Obama and 39% McCain, much closer than the Wal-Mart shoppers' results (margin of error plus or minus 3.5 points).
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