2008 presidential campaign

We’ll do it live, as they say.
The Obama campaign is aggressively pushing its new video attacking Sen. John McCain on the Keating Five. Campaign spokesman Bill Burton blasted reporters with a terse, dramatic note this afternoon: “Keating-McCain documentary is now live.”

Modern presidential campaigns don’t just work the refs. They obsess over the media.
Gov. Sarah Palin can’t seem to finish a rally without riffing on her (rare) interactions with the “mainstream media.”
Since the conventions, the Obama campaign has consistently hammered reporters for how they cover McCain’s falsehoods.
The styles are different, but the target and goals are [...]

While the McCain campaign’s attacks on Sen. Barack Obama’s connection to former Weatherman William Ayers will likely dominate today’s news cycle, the Wall Street Journal is out with a story this morning with far larger implications for millions of Americans.
According to the newspaper:

When the McCain campaign announced this weekend that it would start attacking Sen. Barack Obama via guilt by association, peddling smears about people he barely knows, I thought the tack would lead to the Keating Five.  But I didn’t know it would happen this quickly.

The Alaska governor represents a new sort of female politician. Instead of Hillary’s Rodham Clinton’s out-policy-wonking the boys, Palin offers anti-elite common sense.

Today’s the big day.
What day is that, you ask?  Why, today’s the day the Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her husband, Todd, released their much-awaited financial records — and they are quite revealing.
From the McCain campaign Website:

Amid all the reactions to last night’s vice presidential debate, one thing seems clear: moderator Gwen Ifill went pretty easy on Sarah Palin.
Ifill may have had her legs pulled out from under her when the pundits of the right raised concerns over her impartiality following revelations that she was writing a book titled “Breakthrough: Politics [...]

More from Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s interview with Fox News’ Carl Cameron…
Palin says she wishes the McCain campaign hadn’t made the decision to pull its staff and resources out of Michigan.

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin raised some eyebrows during Thursday’s debate when she said would like to do more forums “without the filter of the mainstream media telling viewers what they have just heard.”
Some took this as an indication that the she intends to abandon the high-profile interviews that have proved unhelpful to her cause, to [...]

The McCain campaign’s decision to effectively concede Michigan to Obama makes no political sense because the GOP nominee enjoys key advantages in the state.