South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint on Friday became one of the first high-profile Republicans to publicly criticize John McCain following his electoral defeat, blaming the Arizona senator for betraying conservative principles in his quest for the White House.
Sarah Palin raised a few eyebrows within the John McCain campaign because she didn't realize that Africa is a continent, according to aides whispering to a shamelessly right-wing news outlet.
McCain aides told Fox News chief political correspondent Carl Cameron there was "great concern" within the campaign that Palin "lacked a degree of knowledgeability necessary to be a running mate, a vice president, and a heartbeat away from the presidency."
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: After decades of broken politics in Washington, eight years of failed policies from George W. Bush, twenty-one months of a campaign that has taken us from the rocky coasts of Maine to the sunshine of California, we are one day away from changing the United States of America.SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, (R) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I've been fighting for this country since I was 17 years old, and I have the scars to prove it. And if I'm elected president, I'll fight to shake up Washington, and we'll take America in a new direction.
The world has never watched any vote, in any nation, so closely. In country after country, polls show record-high fascination with the outcome of the U.S. elections this Tuesday. In Japan, according to one poll, there's more interest in the election than there is in the United States. The Voice of America, which broadcasts in 45 languages to a worldwide audience of 134 million, is seeing "unprecedented interest." In Pakistan there was so much interest in the first presidential debate, the VOA changed its initial plans and broadcast the next two as well.
Today is going to be a tough and long day for not only Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama, but also for the millions of voters who have to queue up for hours to cast their votes. The nominating process for the Republican’s and Democratic’s, to put forward who they want to become President of the United States of America was a tough process, but that was the easy part.All that hard work has now gone down to one day, and that is today. Once you make your vote, you will then go home and listen to all the information as it comes in, to see how well your man is doing.
As U.S. voters focus on getting out to vote and checking to see if their candidate won, more attention will be paid to early exit poll results in the 2008 election.View Related News Late yesterday afternoon the McCain campaign issued a memo, actually a cautionary word about prejudging the exit poll results. The memo suggested that in 2004 the early exit poll results were misinterpreted by the media, thus causing some U.S. Voters to stay at home and not cast their vote.
The massive number of voters selecting their next president through absentee and early voting could make it difficult to forecast preliminary results out Tuesday evening. Some political observers predict early and absentee voters will make up about 30 percent of the total votes on Election Day -- which could approach a record 130 million to 140 million.
A throng some 60,000 people strong filled the lawn in front of the Statehouse and flowed into the streets Sunday as Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama made his closing arguments to Ohio for a vote to end what he called the "nightmare" of the last eight years.And despite the beat of the message of his closing theme, "Signed, Sealed, Delivered," and polls showing him in the lead, the Illinois senator was leaving nothing to chance. He pointed the way toward Veterans Memorial just across the Scioto River where Franklin County residents were voting as he spoke.
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