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McCain is McCain
By Dave - Politics DailyWhat can you say? He is who he is. And if anyone is wondering if he can come close to soaring oratory of Obama or the directness of Sarah Palin, the answer to that is no.But first the prelims, and let me ask, what the hell the GOP is thinking? Tom Ridge? Lindsey Graham? Surely they could have spared one guy from the A squad last night to warm up the crowd for McCain: a Romney, Giuliani, or even Huckabee would have worked wonders here. With Cindy McCain's intro, let me just say it did nothing to convince me that the tradition shouldn't be shot ASAP. Unless the plan was to make McCain look good ...
Palin TV Ratings Rival Obama
By Dave - Politics DailyThe Associated Press:That audience rivaled the one for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama last week. Nielsen Media Research estimated 37.2 million people watched Palin on either ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News Channel or MSNBC. PBS estimated it had four million viewers for the speech.Last week Obama had 38.4 million viewers on the commercial networks, topping 40 million with PBS and C-SPAN added in.... Viewers were far more interested in Palin than Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden. Biden's speech to Democrats last week was seen by an estimated 24 million people. I ...
Obama Speech Tickets Require Volunteer Stint
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyThe Obama campaign caused a stir last month when it announced that Sen. Obama would forgo the usual acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in favor of a larger, open-air rally and speech at nearby Invesco Field in front of over 75,000 people. Now, the manner in which the campaign is distributing some of the tickets for the much-anticipated event is causing consternation among ticket applicants. Originally, the Obama campaign said that tickets to the event would be free. But this week, the Obama campaign began informing some ticket applicants that they will have to perform ...
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