Mirror and Cache index - World and business: 2008 US elections
2214 votes | submitted 2008-09-08 06:58:51 by joel3000 | 284 comments
While the media focuses on the antics of McCain's chosen VP battleground states are purging their
voter rolls.In Colorado, one fifth of all voter registrations were dropped.Florida is refusing to
accept 85,000 new registrants -- overwhelmingly blacks.Ohio & Nevada are scrubbing tens of 1000s of
voters who lost their homes.
2212 votes | submitted 2008-09-07 18:19:29 by seschloss | 557 comments
Rick Davis, campaign manager for Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., just told Fox News Channel's Chris
Wallace that McCain running mate Gov. Sarah Palin won't subject herself to any tough questions from
reporters "until the point in time when she'll be treated with respect and deference."
1030 votes | submitted 2008-09-07 07:48:10 by freedomjoe | 145 comments
"This election is not about issues," McCain campaign manager Rick Davis said this week. I thought
Davis was offering an assessment, but it was apparently some kind of promise.
1526 votes | submitted 2008-09-07 17:21:21 by KevinFederline | 111 comments
Since accepting Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) offer to be his running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK)
has lied about her supposed opposition to the Bridge to Nowhere in nearly every single campaign
appearance:
1117 votes | submitted 2008-09-06 14:29:00 by MrBabyMan | 165 comments
Why income inequality is destroying the G.O.P. base.
1314 votes | submitted 2008-09-07 08:59:43 by KevinFederline | 323 comments
Gov. Sarah Palin has been a strong supporter of programs that advocate abstinence until marriage,
and she also opposes explicit sex education. Alaska's law is silent on these issues, however, and it
provides no specific funding for sex education in the schools.
980 votes | submitted 2008-09-07 20:40:47 by jjw269 | 203 comments
According to McClatchy's report, in 1996, McCain was met in the Senate office halls by a group of
family members of POW-MIAs who had been pressing him topursue more information on their relatives.
Six people present have written statements describing what they saw.
2784 votes | submitted 2008-09-06 23:38:37 by edgefield | 506 comments
If John McCain wanted to poach the women's vote from Barack Obama, he shouldn't have tapped a
running mate who dubbed herself a "pit bull with lipstick."
3283 votes | submitted 2008-09-06 14:37:33 by RancidViking | 237 comments
Jon Stewart does it again...
1851 votes | submitted 2008-09-06 14:05:26 by pravoslavnie | 237 comments
Lies McCain made during his convention speech.
493 votes | submitted 2008-09-06 20:12:34 by HeidiRenee | 117 comments
John McCain's presidential campaign did not speak with the Alaska House speaker and other leading
Republicans before McCain tapped Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate. "I haven't heard of anybody
being contacted, not that that's bad," said John Harris, speaker of the state House of
Representatives. "I just haven't heard of anybody."
1385 votes | submitted 2008-09-07 03:51:03 by derkaryian | 147 comments
Community Organizers & 'The Public V McCain' help us get them on all over America at truthandhope
dot org
1609 votes | submitted 2008-09-06 06:33:55 by cheesegypsy | 286 comments
McCain's pandering to women improved her standing to women in focus groups in Nevada, but polling
data suggests that there is no movement in national polling data, showing women are not stupid like
John McCain and Karl Rove think they are.
2529 votes | submitted 2008-09-07 00:49:30 by cweathers | 443 comments
GOP operatives stole thousands of American flags from Invesco Field in a cheap political stunt. They
claimed that the Obama campaign was throwing them in the garbage after the DNC Convention at Invesco
Field. They were to use the "rescued flags" at a rally today in Colorado Springs, but the Obama
Campaign calls them on their dirty tricks.
6146 votes | submitted 2008-09-06 14:51:30 by bgholt1970 | 478 comments
This clip clearly illustrates that Candidate McCain is absolutely, undeniably no different than the
asshat currently sitting near the red phone waiting to push the button.
2971 votes | submitted 2008-09-06 22:23:54 by breeder | 492 comments
"I know the governor of Alaska has been saying she's change, and that's great," Obama said. "She's a
skillful politician. But, you know, when you've been taking all these earmarks when it's convenient,
and then suddenly you're the champion anti-earmark person, that's not change..."
1893 votes | submitted 2008-09-06 01:59:40 by MommaKatz | 403 comments
Len Burman, a former Treasury tax official, says if Obama's proposals were adopted in 2009, married
couples with earnings in the lowest quintile of the population would see their aftertax income rise
5.8%. Those in the next quintile would see an increase of 4%. Under McCain's proposals married
couples in the bottom fifth of the population would see