By: Suzanne Rosenberg In today's news from newspaper campaign blogs: Born-again Democrats and ?the Redistributor.? And more. Links to blogs at bottom
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Early Voting Stats
Washington Wire
The Wall Street Journal
By June Kronholz
Almost 11 million voters have already cast their ballots in the 2008 election and Democrats have cast of the majority of them, according to June Kronholz of the Washington Wire. Kronholz reports that George Mason University Professor Michael McDonald is keeping track of early voting. He will be updating his website daily between now and election day.
According to McDonald, 2.1 million Florida voters have cast early ballots-- Democrats,45% and Republicans 40% and independents 15%. In Nevada, Democrats 55%, and 52% in Clark and Washoe Counties respectively, the two largest population centers. The same patterns are repeated in Colorado and California. In other states which do not register voters by party it is impossible to calculate turnout by party and in still other states early voting is not an option restricting speculation about overall early voting trends.
Born Again Democrats
On Politics
USA Today
By Jill Lawrence
Matthew 25 Network, a religious network which supports Democrat Barack Obama, has made buys to run a final round of ads on Christian music stations in Michigan, Colorado, Ohio, Missouri, Indiana, Virginia and North Carolina. According to Jill Lawrence of On Politics the ads, called ?Source of Hope? and ?Pro Life, Pro Obama ? aim to reach born-again Christians and younger evangelicals. Lawrence also reports that radio which has been in the decline as a political tool has made a big comeback this year. Both Obama and McCain and outside interest groups have used radio extensively in this year?s election campaign.
?The Redistributor?
The Washington Post
The Trail
By Michael D. Shear
According to John McCain what Barack Obama means by change is ?taking your money and giving it to someone else. He believes in redistributing wealth, not in policies that grow our economy and create jobs.? He should be known according to McCain as ?the redistributor.? This strategy is clearly meant to paint Obama as a ?Socialist? and to conjure the fear associated with the ideologies of the Cold War. Michael Shear of The Trail reports on the Obama campaign?s response. Obama spokesperson Bill Burton sidestepped the ?socialist? inference and called McCain?s criticism of the redistribution issue as a ??choice in this election between four more years of Bush-McCain policies that redistribute billions to billionaires and big corporations and Barack Obama?s plan to help the middle class.?
McCain economic team sans Gramm and Fiorina
The Caucus
the New York Times
By Larry Rohter
As the Caucus points out, John McCain?s economic advisory team met in Cleveland, Ohio and notable for their absence were former Sentor Phil Gramm and Carly Fiorina who, as Larry Rohter of the Caucus points out, have been sent to McCain ?Siberia, not because of policy disagreements but as a result of gaffes that reflected badly on the Republican candidate.? Gramm called Americans a ?nation of whiners? for complaining about the economy (before the financial collapse) and Carly Fiorina of Hewlett Packard remarked that none of the four candidates on the national ticket (including McCain) had the experience required to run a large company like hers.
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