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[Politics News Review] Obama, McCain spar on economy: RALEIGH, N.C. - Barack Obama yesterday seized on heightened concerns about the economy, seeking to tie John McCain to the Bush administration’s recent record of soaring gasoline prices and slumping employment.

[CIN Economic Social Justice News] CAMPAIGN '08: Capitol Hill; Congress Rallies Around Obama; Because ...: On Tuesday, the Democrats' focus was gas prices, and they used the windfall profits vote to highlight the Republican Party's decision to side with the oil industry against the tax proposal. For Republicans, McConnell took the lead in arguing that Obama and other Democrats were pushing a tax hike that would lead to higher gasoline prices.

 [Arkansas Democrat-Gazette stories: Latest News] Obama, McCain focus on worsening economy: The presidential campaign’s focus turned to the economy Monday with Barack Obama starting a two-week tour meant to highlight his differences with rival John McCain on taxes and spending priorities.

[Untitled] 2008 Presidential Campaign - HOT LINKS #3: McClatchy Newspapers, AP WASHINGTON - Republican nominee-to-be John McCain blasted Democratic rival Barack Obama’s economic policies Tuesday, calling them bad for small business and American families. While outlining his own economic .

[The Daily O'Collegian] Obama, McCain spar over economy: One day after Obama hammered him on the economy, McCain told small business owners the presumed Democratic nominee’s economic proposals would hand them higher taxes and steeper overhead costs. He also criticized Obama for pledging to renegotiate the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement, which is credited for record exports by Republicans but blamed for job losses by many Democrats.

[CIN Economic Social Justice News] Economy Is Top Priority For Obama, McCain, And Voters: The election is "a choice between John McCain's plan to continue four more years of costly Bush economic policies that have widened inequality and .Barack Obama's plan to provide relief to struggling homeowners, affordable healthcare and college for all, and a tax code that rewards work instead of wealth,"

[indiainteracts.com | Spotlight | all] Obama, McCain trade charges on economy: A war of words has started between rival US presidential candidates with Barack Obama and John McCain trading charges on the economy which is emerging as the No. 1 election issue.

[The Swamp] Obama: McCain offers more of Bush: B Hussein Obama is back asking for windfall profits tax on big bad oil companies. They will just raise oil prices higher.Nevermind the Democrat House and Senate are beholden to Greenpeace and the Sierra Club and won't vote for drilling in ANWAR, the Gulf or the Dakotas for years.

 [TheCabin.net] McCain, Obama trade jabs on economy, taxes: No timetablewas set for football to be implemented, but trustees said the sport willonly be implemented after start-up costs are raised from external sources.Trustees have also voted to add women's lacrosse with the same stipulation.Further details in Wednesday's editions of the Log Cabin Democrat.

 [DeepakPanigrahy's Weblog] McCain vs. Obama: Obama’s speech started a two-week tour that points to his campaign’s view of the primary November battlegrounds. Monday’s speech was in North Carolina, which has long backed Republican presidential candidates but which has a large black population, and Mr.

 [mothanskin.blog-city.com] "Jim Webb As Obama VP?": Presidential candidate Barack Obama choosing an ex-military man as his Vice President running mate is a very wise and pragmatic course, in my opinion, especially running against the former POW and war hero, Senator John McCain. Barack Obama , who has never been in the military, has little national security experience and is "beta male" in his bearing, needs the complement of a VP that is a war hero, with extensive national security experience and is an "alpha male"

 [PoliticalBase.com Blog] Will Christian Voters Turn to the Democratic Party in 2008?: Not surprisingly, the New York Times reports today that John McCain's campaign has gone into triage mode to alleviate "a continued wariness toward him among evangelicals and other Christian conservatives, a critical voting bloc for Republicans that could stay home in the fall or at least be decidedly unenthusiastic in their efforts to get out the vote."

 [Newsweek Blogs] The Filter: June 11, 2008: McCain, who once opposed the Bush tax cuts in part because they favored the wealthy, has now made extending those cuts a central plank in his economic plan, which is based largely on the Republican credo that tax reductions stimulate the economy. And he is pushing another strain of fiscal conservatism that has not been much in evidence of late: a call for smaller government and a vow to cut pork-barrel spending...

[Vinny's Breaking News Blog] McCain, Obama trade jabs on economy, taxes (AP): John McCain, R-Ariz., gives a thumbs AP - Republican John McCain said Tuesday that Democrat Barack Obama is bad for business as the presidential rivals appealed to voters worried about lost jobs, rising gas prices and other economic .

 [Media Matters for America] Disregarding the facts, Fox's Cameron, NBC's Mitchell downplayed ...: KELLY:Before I let you go, what about this business -- Obama's hit McCain hard on the fact that he admitted long ago, a coupleof months ago anyway, that he didn't know that much about the economy, andthat's been a talking point for the Democrats and will continue to be. Youasked him about it.

[Politics Blog - Podcasts powered by Odiogo] McCain, Obama trade jabs on economy, taxes (AP): AP - Republican John McCain said Tuesday that Democrat Barack Obama is poor for business as the presidential rivals appealed to voters worried about lost jobs, rising gas prices and other economic woes. Original post by AP .

[Brendan Nyhan] NYT fact-checks McCain on Obama's economic plan: Obama’s tax plan Americans of every background would see their taxes rise, Mr. Obama’s plan calls for cutting taxes on people earning less than $75,000 a year and for eliminating federal income taxes on elderly citizens who make less than $50,000 a year.

[NDN Blog - NDN Blog] NDN'S HISPANICS RISING REPORT: DISCUSSED IN THE MEDIA, PUBLIC, AND ...: "...Democratic strategist Simon Rosenberg contended that McCain's ad buy in the Southwest was a 'sign of weakness, not strength.'  Despite Obama's problems with Hispanics, Rosenberg, president of the New Democratic Network think tank, argued that McCain has no chance to match George W. Bush's success in drawing 40 percent of the Hispanic vote.  'Obama is going to be able to communicate in Spanish that John McCain threw Hispanics overboard when he dropped the immigration bill,' Rosenberg said, referring to McCain's decision to renounce some of his moderate views on immigration."

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