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» McCain Would Slash Medicare
10/10/08 19:06 from AFL-CIO Weblog
This week, in the midst of Sen. John McCain ’s misleading assaults on Sen. Barack Obama , his campaign let slip yet another revelation of exactly where their priorities are. One of McCain’s top advisers this week said that as president..
» Find Walks, Phone Banks and More with the AFL-CIO Online Event Tool
10/10/08 18:34 from AFL-CIO Weblog
Are you a union member who wants to turn your energy and enthusiasm into votes? There are nearly 4,000 events around the country you can take part in between now and Election Day. With the AFL-CIO online event tool , you can find walks, ph..
» Global Unions Call for Fair Economic Recovery Plan
10/10/08 18:24 from AFL-CIO Weblog
With the world’s financial markets in a deepening tailspin, the global union movement is calling on the world’s leading industrial nations to launch a major recovery plan to stabilize global capital markets, stave off the devastation o..
» Momentum Building as Union Members Pull Out Stops for Election
10/10/08 17:23 from AFL-CIO Weblog
AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Richard Trumka joins members of IUE-CWA Local 755 in Dayton, Ohio, in handing out issues leaflets to union members. With just 25 days to Election Day, you can feel the momentum building as working people and the..
» Working Families United for Change Rally—'Labor United Will Never Be Divided!'
10/10/08 15:25 from AFL-CIO Weblog
Dana Kennedy, communications director for the Arizona AFL-CIO, describes a recent rally in Phoenix where nearly 800 union members highlighted the struggles of working families and their fight to unionize. As Arizona AFL-CIO President Rebek..
» USW: Palin Rhetoric Embraces Unions, Yet She Backs McCain's Anti-Worker Agenda
10/09/08 21:23 from AFL-CIO Weblog
Republican vice presidential nominee Gov. Sarah Palin can’t have it both ways. She should either denounce Sen. John McCain’s anti-worker policies or stop bragging about her husband’s union membership, says United Steelworkers ( USW )..
» AFSCME: McCain Backed Bush's Economic Policies, Will Continue Them
10/09/08 21:05 from AFL-CIO Weblog
With the economy topping the list of the public's concerns this fall, AFSCME is reaching out to union members with information on Sen. John McCain's support for the Bush administration policies that led to this debacle. The union's new mai..
» Bush Administration Attacks Wage and Hour Laws, Jobless Workers
10/09/08 20:57 from AFL-CIO Weblog
Barely three months before the Bush administration turns over the keys to the White House, Bush and his cronies continue their unmitigated disdain for the nation's workers. Yesterday, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said America's jobl..
» McCain's Claims on Veterans' Issues Don't Match Reality
10/09/08 16:40 from AFL-CIO Weblog
As Sen. John McCain runs for president, he’s using his own service to cast himself as a friend to war veterans. The truth is, although he served honorably in uniform 40 years ago, his much more recent Senate record on veterans’ issues ..
» AFGE Leader: Don't Let Racism Distract Us from Real Issues
10/09/08 15:44 from AFL-CIO Weblog
In a new radio ad, AFGE President John Gage urges union members to keep their focus on how eight years of Republican economics have slammed working people while the rich get richer—rather than become divided by divisive issues of race an..
Latest Political Headlines
» MN-Senate: Coleman Kyboshes Negative Ads
10/10/08 10:10 PM from The Fix
Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman has decided to pull negative ads, but is it too late to make a difference? (Joshua Roberts/Bloomberg News) The Minnesota Senate race -- already one of the most high-profile statewide contests in the country --....
» Ad Wars: Yellow Kansas?
10/10/08 8:52 PM from The Fix
A new ad for former Rep. Jim Slattery, who is taking on Sen. Pat Roberts(R) in Kansas, is sure to get attention but maybe for all the wrong reasons. It speaks for itself so let's take a look: Betcha didn't...
» New York county's ballots print ‘Barack Osama’
10/10/08 8:51 PM from CNN Political Ticker
This absentee ballot was sent out to voters in Rensselaer County in New York state. Photo credit: Albany Times Union newspaper (CNN) — Some are calling it a Freudian slip. Everyone’s calling it a big mistake. Hundreds of absentee ba..
» Brownstein: The risk of McCain's health plan
10/10/08 8:35 PM from MSNBC.com: National Journal
Barack Obama is not exaggerating when he says that John McCain is offering a "radical" new vision of how Americans can safeguard their health.
» Fox News: Obama Leads By Seven Nationally
10/10/08 7:58 PM from Taegan Goddard's Political Wire
Sen. Barack Obama leads Sen. John McCain by 46% to 39%, according to a Fox News poll of registered voters. Key findings: "Obama's advantage comes mainly from doing better among women, blacks, young voters, those with a college degree, and u..
» Most GOP Insiders Think Obama Will Win
10/10/08 7:28 PM from Taegan Goddard's Political Wire
The National Journal 's Political Insiders Poll finds that 80% of Republicans believe there's a high likelihood that Sen. Barack Obama will win the presidential election. In addition, 67% of Republicans said Obama did more to help himself i..
» Bonus Quote of the Day
10/10/08 7:18 PM from Taegan Goddard's Political Wire
"I don't know if you really want to turn a campaign into a CNBC news show on the stock market." -- McCain campaign manager Rick Davis, in a conference call with reporters, on why Sen. John McCain isn't talking much about the financial crisi..
» Coleman Suspends All Negative Ads
10/10/08 7:15 PM from Taegan Goddard's Political Wire
Sen. Norm Coleman's (R-MN) U.S. Senate campaign announced it is pulling all of its negative advertisements off the airwaves, according to The Hill . Said Coleman: "I decided that I was not all that interested in returning to Washington for ..
» NE-02: Terry Still on the Hunt for "Obama-Terry" Voters
10/10/08 6:45 PM from Swing State Project
Here's a recent mailer sent out by the campaign of disingenuous, unaccomplished GOP Rep. Lee Terry:
You might recall Lee Terry's almost-endorsement of Barack Obama earlier this year, when he said that his district was seeing a wa..
» Biden blasts 'uncertain' McCain team
10/10/08 6:38 PM from First Read
From NBC/NJ's Mike Memoli SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Biden turned talk about the candidates’ associations back against McCain , saying that one of the choices voters have is not just between Obama and McCain, but between those who they’d enli..
» Rage rising on the McCain campaign trail
10/10/08 6:15 PM from CNN Political Ticker
An angry supporter confronts Sen. John McCain at a rally in Wisconsin on Thursday. (CNN) — With recent polls showing Sen. Barack Obama's lead increasing nationwide and in several GOP-leaning states, some Republicans attending McCain-P..
» No Harry Truman
10/10/08 6:10 PM from Taegan Goddard's Political Wire
Republican attempts to compare themselves to Harry Truman are wildly misguided, writes presidential historian Robert Dallek . "The rush to embrace Truman tells us more about contemporary politics than about the realities of his career. The ..
» WA-08: Burner Trails in Both R2K and Internal; SSP Moves to "Lean GOP"
10/10/08 6:03 PM from Swing State Project
Research 2000 for Daily Kos (10/5-7, likely voters):
Darcy Burner (D) : 41
Dave Reichert (R) : 49
(MoE: ?5%)
Lake Research Partners for Darcy Burner (9/23-25, likely voters):
Darcy Burner (D) : 45
Dave Reiche..
» Coleman 'will pull down negative ads'
10/10/08 5:49 PM from First Read
From NBC's Chuck Todd and Domenico Montanaro This is one way to respond to an uneasy electorate. Fascinating decision and ploy... From a Norm Coleman , incumbent candidate for U.S. Senate in Minnesota, press release: “As of today I am su..
» McCain camp not 'a CNBC news show'
10/10/08 5:49 PM from First Read
From NBC/NJ's Adam Aigner-Treworgy and Carrie Dann Asked on a just-ended conference call about his candidates' lack of daily campaign statements on the plummeting of global markets in recent days, McCain campaign manager Rick..
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