Bird’s-Eye View

To visitors of the Nest hoping to watch the live blog of yesterday’s Hillary Clinton speech, I am sorry. The Clinton media folks did not provide WiFi, which prevented live coverage. The article that appeared in the print edition is here.
This morning the Nest has moved to the campus of Montgomery County Community College where […]

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Politico.com has an article about how and why Republican John McCain is trying hard to flip Pennsylvania into the GOP column for the first time in two decades. Politico correctly notes that sinking sooo much money and effort in a state solidly in Democrat Barack Obama’s column (average poll lead has him up 13.8 percentage […]

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Suprise!
The National Rifle Association is endorsing Republican presidential nominee John McCain despite differences with the Arizona senator on gun-show rules and campaign finance restrictions.
NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre and the chairman of the NRA’s political action committee planned stops Thursday in Pennsylvania, Missouri, Colorado and Nevada to talk about the move.
LaPierre said the two […]

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Now it’s right-centrist David Brooks of the New York Times.
According to the Huffington Post, Brooks made the following comment during an event with the Atlantic Monthly, comparing Sarah Palin to President Bush:
[Sarah Palin] represents a fatal cancer to the Republican party. When I first started in journalism, I worked at the National Review for Bill […]

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The Boston Globe today unveils an article about how Republican John McCain while in Bethlehem is trying a new approach to win over women voters. As noted in the Intell, women voters are one of if not the key voting bloc in Pennsylvania, so it’s no surprise McCain chose the Keystone to emphasize his new […]

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The Nest is perched in the Lehigh Valley this morning. Republicans John McCain and Sarah Palin are dropping in for their first rally in the wake of last night’s debate. We’ll start blogging at 1 p.m. Check back!

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If you’re Republican John McCain, Tuesday is the kind of day your campaign needs. You’re slipping farther behind your opponent, Democrat Barack Obama, in critical swing states like Pennsylvania and (GASP!) traditionally-Republican Virginia; a majority of voters want a new manager of the economy in the White House rather than someone from the current president’s […]

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Republicans right now are tossing as much mud as they can at Democrat Barack Obama in hopes something … anything … sticks. And many out there expect Republican John McCain to get rough and tumble during tonight’s debate (Sarah Palin said in Florida the gloves were coming off).
But as NBC’s political director Chuck Todd notes, […]

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Tonight’s debate will be the most unusual of the four scheduled debates in this election cycle because of its format: Townhall-style. Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama will appear before an audience of about 150 undecided voters with NBC’s Tom Brokaw moderating. Questions will come from Brokaw, audience members and some from the Internet.
It’s […]

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