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
John McCain's daughter Meghan is not taking offense to Barack Obama's "lipstick on a pig" line like the rest of her father's campaign, pointing out Wednesday morning that the GOP presidential nominee has been known to use the phrase.
"I've heard my dad say that, the term 'lipstick on a pig,'" McCain said during an appearance on Fox promoting her new children's book about her father.
Asked directly if she thought Obama was calling Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) a pig, McCain said, "I don't know. I hope not. I mean, I hope not, but I have no idea."
"I don't like anyone being referred to as a pig in any context," McCain added. "I think there's a lot more educated conversations we can have about the ticket than just saying these remarks like that."
During a campaign stop Tuesday, Obama attacked McCain and Palin for what he sees as a false portrayal of their records on reform.
"You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig," Obama said.
The McCain campaign has hit back hard over the comment putting out a new ad and issuing strong responses.
Responding to McCain, the Obama campaign sent out a reminder to reporters that McCain used the phrase in 2007 to describe Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's (D-N.Y.) health care plan.
Here is the response to John McCain's newest ad from Barack Obama's campaign spokesman Bill Burton:
"It is shameful and downright perverse for the McCain campaign to use a bill that was written to protect young children from sexual predators as a recycled and discredited
The John Mccain campaign released a new television ad Tuesday aggressively going after Barack Obama for his support for teaching "comprehensive sex education to kindergartners."
Here is the transcript:
Education Week says Obama "hasn't made a significant mark on education".
That he's "elusive" on accountability.
A "staunch defender of the existing public school monopoly".
Obama's one accomplishment?
Legislation to teach "comprehensive sex education" to kindergartners.
Learning about sex before learning to read?
Barack Obama.
Wrong on education. Wrong for your family.
More than 40 million people tuned in last week to listen to the speech from Palin, the 44-year-old first-term governor whom McCain announced as his surprise vice presidential pick just days before. Since then, that basic script is all anyone has heard from her publicly, and her only interaction with the media was a brief conversation with a small group of reporters on her plane Monday -- off the record at her handlers' insistence.
Associated Press reporters were not on the plane, but an aide told the journalists on board that all Palin flights would be off the record unless the media were told otherwise. At least one reporter objected. Two people on the flight said the Palins greeted the media and they chatted about who had been to Alaska, but little else was said.
Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) will hold a press conference in Washington Wednesday to announce his plans for the election.
The release announcing the event doesn't give much away, and it is unlikely the he will endorse one of the third party candidates, though some are wondering if he plans to endorse John McCain.
Paul was last seen at his three-day "Rally for the Republic," a 12,000 member convention rivaling the GOP's in Minneapolis.
To help protect Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's (R) image, John McCain's campaign announced Tuesday a "truth squad" of mostly female lawmakers who will push back against attacks on Republican veep nominee.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Jane Swift (R) said in a statement that the group won't "allow those on the left and in the media to smear a woman who has always served her constituents with honor."
The campaign did not specify which attacks Palin has received.
The campaign suggested that the group is partly a response to efforts by Democrats to research Palin's past in Alaska. Wall Street Journal columnist John Fund wrote Tuesday that "a mini-army of 30 lawyers, investigators and opposition researchers" have landed in Anchorage.
Below is the list of national members of "The Palin Truth Squad." Only one man -- Alaska Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell (R) -- is on the list, a fact that underscores Republicans' effort to reach out to female voters through Palin.
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