| 9:07 PM: | Pelosi calls on Bush to tap oil reserve. U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday urged President Bush to release crude oil from the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve to combat high prices, a call Republicans used to bolster their push to increase domestic production with more drilling in environmentally sensitive areas. CNN. | |
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| 9:04 PM: | McCain Health Plan and That High-Risk Pool. Senator John McCain’s health plan for high-risk group stands in sharp relief to that of Senator Barack Obama. NYT. | |
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| 9:02 PM: | McCain Responds to Maliki's Call for Withdrawal Timetable. Sen. John McCain responded late Tuesday to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's call for a drawdown in foreign troops from Iraq as a prerequisite for a security agreement with the United States. ABC. | |
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| 9:02 PM: | John McCain's radical tax plan. He voted against Bush's tax cuts, but now, despite a ballooning deficit, he wants to slash taxes even further -- with most of the benefits going to the rich. Salon. | |
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| 9:00 PM: | McCain Adviser Rejects Talk of Becoming Chief Strategist. Mike Murphy, a longtime adviser to Senator John McCain, said he will not be joining the McCain campaign as a chief strategist, as rumored. NYT. | |
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| 9:00 PM: | Obama Donors Aren’t Rushing to Aid Clinton. Senator Barack Obama’s top donors have raised less than $100,000 to help erase Senator Hillary Clinton’s debt, "a paltry sum," in the words of one Clinton official. NYT. | |
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| 8:58 PM: | Obama Says His Critics Haven’t Been Listening. Senator Barack Obama addressed concerns that he had moved too quickly to the political center, saying "The people who say this apparently haven’t been listening to me." NYT. | |
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| 8:58 PM: | John McCain Thinks Social Security Is a Disgrace. It seems that the candidate decided that peeing on the third rail was a good idea. Yglesias. | |
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| 8:55 PM: | TV One to cover only Obama convention. TV One, the cable network aimed at African-American viewers, will cover Barack Obama's nominating convention but is ignoring John McCain's. USA Today. | |
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| 1:31 PM: | Obama, McCain battle for Latino voters. The fight for Hispanic voters takes center stage Tuesday as John McCain and Barack Obama both speak separately in Washington to the League of United Latin American Citizens. CNN. | |
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| 1:28 PM: | Candidates Move Closer Together On Housing Crisis. Roughly 1.5 million Americans are expected to lose their homes to foreclosure this year. Both John McCain and Barack Obama back legislation to help struggling homeowners refinance their mortgages. NPR. | |
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| 11:27 AM: | Obama Responds to RNC Ad. Two days after the Republican National Committee released their first anti-Obama ad of the campaign cycle, the expected Democratic nominee responded today with an ad running in the same four states -- Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. WSJ. | |
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| 11:19 AM: | Gray-Haired Barack Obama Commences Human Process Of 'Oldening' Have you noticed that Barack Obama's hair is getting grayer? Because boy howdy these days he looks like the love child of Anderson Cooper and Donna Brazile. He is aging so rapidly that soon he will be older than John McCain. Wonkette. | |
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| 11:19 AM: | John Edwards Still Has Work To Do. For John Edwards, the campaign stops and fund raisers may be over, but the former presidential candidate says he still has work to do. NPR. | |
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| 8:30 AM: | McCain: Spending is out of control. Sen. John McCain on Tuesday brushed off skepticism from economists and insisted he could balance the budget by 2013 by keeping taxes low and curbing spending. CNN. | |
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| 8:28 AM: | Obama ad fires back at Republicans & McCain on energy. Saying it wants to set the record "straight" about Barack Obama's plans for easing the nation's energy crisis, the Democratic presidential candidate's campaign just responded to an earlier ad from an affiliate of the Republican National Committee USA Today. | |
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| 6:40 AM: | Battleground watch. You know times are tough when Republican incumbents are launching ads with phrases like "Republican leaders lost their way" and "Republicans getting our own house in order." MSNBC. | |
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| 6:29 AM: | McCain's Stresses Military Service in New Ad, 'Love' John McCain emphasizes his service in Vietnam in his new one-minute long television spot, "Love." The money line: "Don't hope for a better life, vote for one." The Hill. | |
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| 6:28 AM: | U.S. and Czechs sign missile defense deal. The United States and the Czech Republic signed a treaty on Tuesday allowing Washington to build part of a missile defense shield in the central European NATO state, despite tough opposition from Russia. Reuters. | |
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| 6:26 AM: | Obama Hits McCain On Bankruptcy Laws. Barack Obama on Tuesday proposed changing bankruptcy laws to "fast-track" the process for military families, help seniors keep their homes, and protect people recovering from natural disasters. CBS. | |
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| 4:12 AM: | Clinton's Convention Role Being Negotiated. The WSJ reports on the delicate situation surrounding Clinton's 1600 delegates: "A full roll-call vote could reveal party rifts, but keeping her name off the roll call could anger her supporters." Mark Halperin. | |
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| 4:12 AM: | Dems' new villain: Commodity speculators. Party leaders say group at least partially responsible for gas prices that hit record highs over the holiday. Politico. | |
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| 4:11 AM: | Poll: Pet owners favor McCain. If the presidential election goes to the dogs, John McCain is looking like best in show. AP. | |
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| 4:11 AM: | DNC, Obama to seek broad input for party platform. The Democratic National Committee and Barack Obama's presidential campaign will hold meetings in all 50 states to get voters more involved in developing the party platform. AP. | |
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| 4:08 AM: | Obama Stumps in Another Red State Tuesday. The Illinois Senator holds a morning town hall meeting in Powder Springs, Georgia continuing his slew of trips to notoriously Republican strongholds. Mark Halperin. | |
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| 4:06 AM: | Americans' Level of Religiosity Affects Vote. Whether an individual says religion is an important part of his or her daily life is often a strong indicator of whether he or she supports John McCain or Barack Obama for president. Gallup. | |
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| 4:05 AM: | McCain newly assertive on judicial philosophy. While John McCain has courted the conservative base with his ideas on Supreme Court nominees, Obama says little on the subject. Politico. | |
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| 4:03 AM: | Republican buoyed by calls for energy exploration. A top U.S. Republican cited on Monday a surge in support among liberals for increased energy exploration as a reason why the Democratic-led Congress may act soon to allow expanded drilling in the United States. Reuters. | |
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| 4:02 AM: | Obama and McCain square off over economy. Presidential rivals Barack Obama and John McCain clashed over how to boost the ailing U.S. economy on Monday, with Obama pushing for a new stimulus package to help homeowners and McCain pressing for low income taxes and incentives for small business. Reuters. | |
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| 4:01 AM: | Editorial: Compromising the Constitution. The Senate should reject a bill this week that would weaken the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and expand the government’s ability to spy on Americans. NYT. | |
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| 4:01 AM: | Op-Ed Columnist: Lurching With Abandon. Senator Barack Obama is not just tacking gently toward the center. He’s zigging so fast it’s guaranteed to cause disillusion, if not whiplash. NYT. | |
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| 4:00 AM: | Op-Ed Contributor: Put War Powers Back Where They Belong. The 1973 War Powers Resolution should be replaced by a new law that would require the president and Congress to discuss the matter before going to war. NYT. | |
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| 3:59 AM: | Op-Ed Contributor: Listening to Compromise. While the version of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that will come to the Senate floor this week is not perfect, the alternative could be far worse. NYT. | |
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| 3:58 AM: | US exports to Iran rose in Bush years. U.S. exports to Iran grew more than tenfold during President Bush's years in office even as he accused Iran of nuclear ambitions and helping terrorists. AP. | |
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