The John McCain campaign responded today to mounting tension over Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's (R) early support for the so-called "Bridge to Nowhere," claiming the Alaska Democratic Party credits her with killing the project.
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) pushed that claim today in an op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal entitled, "Yes, Palin Did Stop that Bridge."
"Even the Alaska Democratic Party credits her with killing the bridge," DeMint wrote, saying Palin "saved taxpayers millions" by changing her stance to oppose the project.
An Alaska Democratic Party website dedicated to opposing Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) claims Palin "said...that the state had higher priorities" when she officially nixed the project as governor. Stevens originally secured the $223 million earmark in 2005.
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Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D) will stand in for Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin in preparations for the October 2 debate between Palin and her Democratic counterpart, Delaware Sen. Joe Biden.
Granholm will spend four days with Biden in preparations for the debate, the Detroit Free Press reported Wednesday.
"The governor has been asked to help and is pleased to accept," Granholm spokeswoman Liz Boyd told the paper.
Granholm, the two-term governor of Michigan, is 49 years old. Palin is 44. Both Granholm and Palin competed in beauty pageants in their youth. Granholm is also known for a feisty and assertive public demeanor.
The debate between Palin and Biden will be held at Washington University in St. Louis on Thursday, October 2 at 8:00 p.m.
Barack Obama said Wednesday that the press is taking his 'lipstick on a pig' comment too far, saying simply "enough is enough."
"Spare me the phony outrage. Spare me the phony ... talk about change," Obama said at a campaign stop in Virginia."We have real problems in this country right now. The American people are looking to us for answers, not distractions, not diversions, not manipulations. They want real answers to the real problems we are facing."
"I don't care what they say about me. But I love this country too much to let them take over another election with lies and phony outrage and swift boat politics."
Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) said that he anticipates that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) will make their coming vice presidential debate "as personal as she can."
"Folks, look, I know what she's going to try to do," Biden said at Chicago fundraiser Tuesday night. "She's going to try to make it as personal as she can. She's going to take a lot of straight lefts and jabs at me. She's going to try to get me to respond. She's going to try to get me to respond in a personal way."
"That's not my style. I'm not going to do it," Biden added.
The Delaware senator also said the the press is "exaggerating" the impact Palin is having on the race, especially among white women, despite a recent surge in the polls for John McCain that has coincided with the Palin pick as well as the Republican Convention.
"The press is exaggerating how white women are all of a sudden for Sarah Palin," Biden said. "We still have more women voting for Barack Obama than for John McCain."
The Barack Obama campaign distributed a video of John McCain using the phrase 'lipstick on a pig' to describe Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's (D-N.Y.) healthcare proposal in 2007.
Since the remark hit the top of Drudge last night, the Obama camp has been pushing back hard against the line hoping balance coverage of what is mostly playing as slam on Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R).
Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) is urging voters to reject the candidates from the two major parties and look to others in the upcoming presidential election.
"Reject the two candidates who demand perpetuation of the status quo and pick one of the alternatives that you have the greatest affinity to, based on the other issues," he said according to prepared remarks for his address at the National Press Club on Wednesday. "A huge vote for those running on principle will be a lot more valuable by sending a message that we
Bill O'Reilly's Fox News show got vastly better ratings than Keith Olbermann's MSNBC program on Monday, the night the two rivals both aired interviews with Barack Obama.
About 4.6 million people watched "The O'Reilly Factor" Monday at 8 p.m., while "Countdown" had about 1.9 million viewers, reports TVWeek. O'Reilly aired the second portion of his interview with Obama on Monday; the first part aired last week.
Barack Obama's campaign is moving staffers out of Georgia and into more competitive states, according to WGCL in Atlanta.
Obama has had about 75 staffers in the state, which last voted for the Democratic nominee in 1992. Some staffers will be moving to North Carolina and other swing states, the CBS affiliate reports. The campaign stopped running television ads in the state three weeks ago.
John McCain led Obama 53 percent to 44 percent in the latest poll of the state, conducted by Rasmussen.
CHYRON: Sarah Palin On: Sarah Palin
GOVERNOR PALIN: Do you know, they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull: lipstick.
CHYRON: Barack Obama On: Sarah Palin
BARACK OBAMA: Well, you know, you can, you know you can...put...uh...lipstick on a pig...it's still a pig.
CHYRON: Katie Couric On: The Election
CBS' KATIE COURIC: One of the great lessons of that campaign is the continued and accepted role of sexism in American life.
CHYRON: Ready To Lead? No
Ready To Smear? Yes
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