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...claim that the mainstream media are "smitten with Obama" wasn't reflected in a recent analysis of nightly newscasts on ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox by the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Media and Public Affairs. It found that before Hillary Clinton dropped out of the Democratic race, evaluations of Obama expressed in the evening news were 62% positive vs. 38% negative; since then they have been only 28% positive and 72% negative. Before Clinton quit, on-air evaluations of McCain were only 34% positive vs. 66% negative; they have since been 43% positive and 57% negative. Jessica G. Gugino...
After two weeks of sharpened attacks between the campaigns, Barack Obama is maintaining a narrow 5% lead over John McCain in the race for the White House, a new TIME poll shows. Overall, the poll shows Obama leading McCain 46% to 41% when undecided voters with a slight preference are included (the margin of error was plus or minus three percentage points). That gap is the same as the presumptive Democratic nominee held in June...
...George W. Bush, meanwhile, appears to still be a factor in the race to succeed him. Bush's approval rating hovers steadily at 29%. The percentage of people who disapprove of Bush who are supporting the Republican candidate anyway - a key indicator of the election - reveals how close the race remains. McCain is getting the support of 20% of voters who disapprove of Bush's handling of his job. Most pollsters believe that McCain will need closer to 30% of "Bush disapprovers" to beat Obama in November...
...Those comments - now playing in clips on YouTube-speak to not only the bruised feelings of Clinton's many supporters. Embedded in those remarks, say friends and advisers, are hints of Clinton's own feelings in the aftermath of a race in which she fought so hard and still fell short. In public, Clinton is doing everything she is asked - and then some - to help the man who defeated her get elected to the White House. She raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for Obama from her extensive network of donors and has spoken to many of the groups, including...
...helping is the fact that Obama has yet to follow up on the tentative dinner plans he and Bill Clinton made at the end of the primary season. "It's personal with him, in terms of his own legacy," says a friend of Bill Clinton's. "And the race stuff really left a bad taste in his mouth...