To accommodate a half-hour Obama time buy on Fox on Oct. 29, Major League Baseball has agreed to move the start time of World Series Game 6 by about 15 minutes. That would move the start of the game from 8:20 p.m. ET or so to 8:35 p.m.
“Fox will accommodate Senator Obama’s desire to communicate [...]
At a secret meeting with Barack Obama three months ago, Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes says, he tried to clear the air with the Democratic senator by saying that his organization was determined to be fair but would not be “in the tank” for Obama’s campaign.
Link:washingtonpost.com.
On the eve of the Democratic and Republican conventions, Blender polled Barack Obama and John McCain for their top 10 songs.
Link:Blender.com.
With Election Day still three months away, 48 percent said they’re hearing too much about the Democratic candidate, according to a poll released Wednesday by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center. Just 26 percent said the same about his Republican rival, John McCain.
Link:Yahoo News.
In the build-up to what is probably the most anticipated American campaign speech ever held on foreign soil, one of Berlin’s main city magazines offered its readership cut-out American flags to wave at Barack Obama’s planned address.
The presumed Democratic nominee plans to arrive in the German capital on Thursday morning. Not much of his agenda [...]
The Obama campaign has tried to cloak the Illinois senator’s trip in some measure of secrecy for security reasons. The White House, State Department and Pentagon do not announce senior officials’ visits to Iraq in advance.
“I believe that either today or tomorrow — and I’m not privy to his schedule — Sen. Obama will be [...]
ABC News and The Washington Post issued staggered releases of the results of their latest poll, withholding from their first release results favorable to Sen. Barack Obama, including the finding that 50 percent of registered voters would vote for Obama for president versus 42 percent for Sen. John McCain. The next day, the Post ran [...]
“Toss-up” states Minnesota and Wisconsin were re-designated to “Lean-Obama” Friday, giving the presumptive Democratic nominee another 20 electoral votes in CNN’s current estimate. The Illinois senator now has 231 electoral votes — 39 shy of winning the presidency.
Link:CNN’s Electoral Map: Two states shift to Obama
“Sen. Obama called himself and he apologized to each of us,” one of the women, lawyer Hebba Aref, told me just now.
Aref, who had suggested that an appropriate fix might be seating her behind Obama at some future event, said she’d also discussed that possibility with his staff.
Link:Politico.com
After Michelle praises her husband as a leader, as a man, as a father and as “the next president of the United States,” the senator claims a similar disconnect.
“She never says such nice things about me at home!” he smiles. “I really enjoy listening to her praise me like that because when I get home [...]
