McCain's Negative Campaign a Dismal Failure

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"Obama's favorable rating is as high as it's been in three months. It's actually gone up in the last month. So it's a stupid campaign." William Kristol, Weekly Standard

Gov. Sarah Palin is fairing just as poorly if not worse. In New Hampshire, an official with knowledge of internal polling says the Alaska Republican's favorable rating has nosedived to 36 percent, with 56 percent viewing her unfavorably.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/12/obama-aides-record-cash-r_n_134039.html

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Americans can see that McCraven and his pet rat put their own political ambitions ahead of the best interests of the country.

Obama: McCain 'stoking anger and division' while economy collapses (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14453.html)

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Polifact Debunks Obama-Ayers Connection

The McCain campaign and the RNC are still using ads (e.g., like this one (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONfJ7YSXE5w) that link Obama and 1960s radical William Ayers. Now Polifact has examined (http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/790/) the ads closely and concluded that the claim that Obama and Ayers ran a radical education foundation together is a "pants-on-fire" lie. While it is true that Obama was the nominal head of the foundation in question, Ayers never had a paid position on the foundation's staff, never was on the board, and never had a vote on anything. His connection to Obama was attending some board meetings that were open to the public, and this 20 years after his radical days, by which time he had reformed enough to get a Ph.D. in education from Columbia University and was able to win Chicago's "Citizen of the Year" award in 1997 for his work for nonprofit organizations. In short, while Ayers was a despicable person in his youth, the McCain campaign's relentless harping (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14507.html) on the close relationship between Obama and Ayers is very misleading. They weren't close at all.

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The Man Behind the "Obama Is a Muslim" Campaign Is Exposed

E-mails have been circulating this year saying that Obama is a Muslim or is not a U.S. citizen, and similar things that are not true. Polls show that 10-15% of the population believe them. Ever wonder how these things get started? They are not seeded by spores from meteorites that landed on the earth 50 million years ago. They are very intentional, carefully crafted campaigns and one of the people responsible, Andy Martin, appeared on Fox News last week. The NY Times has a story (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/us/politics/13martin.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin) on Martin. He has run for public office numerous times (once so he could "exterminate Jew power") and lost them all and has filed so many frivolous lawsuits that a federal judge once forbid him from filing any more without advance permission.