The Democrats may just have a problem on their hands. A new CNN poll just out tonight shows the contest between Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain dead even. Obama 49 and McCain 48.
The poll was taken AFTER the Democratic convention. It was widely expected that Obama would get a big bounce–as they say [...]

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So much for so-called “political experts.” No one saw this coming. No one thought that Republican John McCain, who turned 72 today, would select the 44 year old brand new governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, to be his vice-presidential running mate.
But good for him! Barack Obama blew it when he by-passed Hillary Clinton to [...]

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The Barack Obama who stepped before 70 plus thousand people at a stadium in Denver tonight, was a far different Barack Obama than we’ve seen before-detailed, aggressive, assertive, and ready for a fight with John McCain.

Obama’s acceptance speech was the speech critics thought he should have delivered earlier in the campaign. But it was probably [...]

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It’s done. Barack Obama is now the Democratic Party presidential nominee.
And yet, as the New York Times points out in a front page article, he remains somewhat of a mystery.
Jodi Kantor writes about how calculating friends say Obama has always been…how controlled….even emotionless at times.
Why?
The article suggests that Obama may be the first politician [...]

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Looks as if the one person who is not in control of this convention is Barack Obama. Ted Kennedy’s speech–even when suffering from a probable fatal brain tumor–made Obama’s rhetorical skills seem pale by comparison.

Obama’s wife gave a speech that makes one wonder whether she plans on a political career herself. Pretty good.
And, the Clinton [...]

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The ink has hardly dried on the newsprint announcing Joe Biden as Barack Obama’s vice-presidential pick, when the New York Times today runs a story raising serious questions involving Biden, his lawyer son and the MBNA Corporation, which was bought by Bank of America two years ago.
According to the paper, while Sen. Biden was bucking [...]

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