While other national polls show the current financial crisis propelling Barack Obama ahead of John McCain in the presidential race, a new poll from The Hotline/Diageo shows just the opposite.
Obama leads McCain by just one percentage point in that survey (45-44), which shows McCain gaining ground on the question of who would do the best job of handling the economy as president.
On that question, McCain has overcome a five percentage point deficit in the last four days and now stands tied with Obama at 42 percent.
Those numbers provide a stark contrast with a Gallup survey, released today, that showed Americans preferring Obama by 13 percentage points on the economy.
Gallup and Rasmussen have Obama leading by 11 and six percentage points respectively. An average of major polls shows Obama leading by five percentage points nationwide.
After Tuesday night's town hall debate, both candidates greeted the uncommitted voters in the crowd. But after John McCain left, Barack Obama impressed audience members by sticking around to take more questions and pose for pictures, according to The New York Times.
"McCain leaving right afterward was pretty shocking to me
U.S. Central Command head Gen. David Petraeus refused to address the impact of the presidential election on efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan during a speech Wednesday at the conservative Heritage Foundation addressing a number of issues regarding the wars.
More homes watched the second presidential debate than the first one, but neither received the high ratings that last week's vice presidential debate garnered.
According to Nielsen, Tuesday's debate was viewed by 42.1 percent of households in the top 55 local markets across the country. The first debate received a 34.7 rating, while the veep debate got a 45 rating.
Nielsen said it will release national ratings later Wednesday.
A new ad from John McCain plays the liberal card against Barack Obama.
"The National Journal says he's the Senate's most liberal. How extreme," an announcer says in the spot.
The ad also swipes at Obama's character by showing that he defends himself by charging his critics with lying.
One of the Obama interview clips, however, isn't directly related to his liberal National Journal ranking; instead, it's a video of Obama pushing back against critics whom he saw as misrepresenting his position on an abortion bill in the Illinois state legislature.
The McCain campaign says its ad will be televised nationally. Read the script and watch the ad below.
Script For "Folks" (TV :30)
ANNCR: Who is Barack Obama? The National Journal says he's the Senate's most liberal.
How extreme. But when pressed, how does he defend himself?
BARACK OBAMA: They're not telling the truth.
I hate to say that people are lying, but here's a situation where folks are lying.
ANNCR: Mr. Obama, we all know the truth.
BARACK OBAMA: Folks are lying.
ANNCR: Not presidential.
JOHN MCCAIN: I'm John McCain and I approve this message.
John McCain today rolled out a group of 100 former U.S. ambassadors who have endorsed him for president.
Notables include President George H.W. Bush and John Bolton, former ambassadors to the U.N.; former Ambassador to Portugal Frank Carlucci III, who served as secretary of defense under President Ronald Reagan; and former Ambassador to the Vatican Jim Nicholson, who served as secretary of veterans affairs under the current President Bush.
One of the group's co-chairs--an appointee of President Bill Clinton--offered criticism of Barack Obama's foreign policy credentials in the McCain camp's announcement of the group.
"I will vote for John McCain because the differences between the two candidates are so vast and profound," said MarkErwin, who was appointed by Clinton in 1997 to the board of directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation and in 1999 became ambassador to the Republic of Mauritius, the Republic of the Seychelles and the Federal Islamic Republic of Comoros.
"Senator Obama does not have sufficient leadership experience, nor has he been tested in difficult times," Erwin said.
See a full list of the former ambassadors after the jump.
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Barack Obama's campaign is taking umbrage at John McCain's reference to Obama as "that one" during Tuesday night's debate.
During the debate, the Obama camp sent an e-mail to reporters noting McCain's remark. It came as McCain was criticizing Obama for voting for an energy bill that McCain viewed as laden with pork.
Obama campaign manager David Plouffe pounced on the statement after the debate, saying it was more evidence of McCain's ill will toward Obama.
"John McCain was all over the map on the issues, and he is so angry about the state of his campaign that he referred to Barack Obama as
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