The second most popular candidate on the ticket accepts the Republican nomination. Full text here.
Sound Bite: “Change is coming.”
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This 30-second spot says Sarah Palin’s record stacks up just fine against Barack Obama’s.
Sound Bite: “She’s earned a reputation as a reformer. His reputation? Empty words.
The Obama campaign can’t say it enough: John McCain = George Bush. (Wonder if they have a plan B come October if this isn’t working.)
Looks like the Democratic Convention is providing a bit of a bounce for Barack Obama. The Gallup Daily Tracking Poll shows that Obama has taken a 6 point lead over John McCain — 48% to 42%. (This latest poll was taken BEFORE the Biden and Obama acceptance speeches and the Sarah Palin V.P. announcement.)
LATER: Bigger Bounce
The updated Gallup Daily Tracking Poll (Aug. 30 through Sept. 1) — taken after the Barack Obama acceptance speech and Sarah Palin V.P. announcement — has Obama moving to 50% and McCain stable at 42%
At the abbreviated opening day of the Republican Convention, Cindy McCain was front and center rasing funds for Hurricane Gustav recovery efforts.
Addressing the delegates:
Rallying the troops:
Here are Barack Obama’s first post-convention ads.
No Change
Forget Sarah Palin, John McCain’s running mate is really George Bush.
Revitalize
Obama says he’ll provide bailouts, uh, loan guarantees to the auto industry. Meanwhile, John McCain is “selling out” American workers.
Sarah Palin, come on down!
Here’s John McCain in Dayton, along with his Republican VP candidate, the governor from the great state of Alaska. (She’s a woman.)
Here are two Sarah Palin ads from the 2006 Alaska Gubernatorial race:
Palin’s for “real change” — when it comes to campaign contributions.
Meet the Palin family.
Sarah Palin and Tina Fey: Separated at birth?
In his state of the union on the mount, er, acceptance speech, Barack Obama promised to “cut taxes for 95 percent of all working families” and also to provide Americans with a basketful of government goodies. All this will be paid for, of course, by increasing taxes on those nasty “rich” folks and evil oil companies. Forget the setting and hoopla and confetti. Read the speech. It’s the same old liberal Democratic wine in an attractive new bottle.
The candidate also went after his opponent. He’s a good guy and all but “John McCain doesn’t get it.” Oh, and in case you forgot, McCain equals Bush.
Sound Bite: “So I’ve got news for you, John McCain. We all put our country first.”
Here’s the biopic that introduced the candidate last night:
In this 30-second spot, John McCain congratulates Barack Obama on his nomination, saying “this is truly a good day for America.”
Sound Bite: “How perfect that your nomination would come on this historic day. Tomorrow we’ll be back at it, but tonight Senator, job well done.”
Against a backdrop of scenes of carnage and violence around the world, this McCain video intersperses sound bites from Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and Chris Dodd saying that Barack Obama isn’t ready to be commander-in-chief. You think this message is going to change in the next two months?
For the first time this summer, John McCain moved slightly ahead of Barack Obama in the Gallup Daily Tracking poll — 46% to 44%. The latest polling (through August 25) shows no bounce from the Biden announcement and no bounce from the lead-in to the convention.
In John McCain’s latest ad, Barack Obama has morphed from “Not ready to lead” to “dangerously unprepared to be president.” Why? Because Obama says Iran is a “tiny country” and “doesn’t pose a serious threat.” McCain disagrees.
The Democratic Convention wouldn’t be complete without jokes about John McCain’s many houses. Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer delivers the goods while he explains that America shouldn’t drill for more oil. (We should use less.)
Governor Schweitzer’s full speech. He’s against drilling for oil.
John McCain reprises Hillary Clinton’s “It’s 3:00 AM” ad and grafts on Hillary’s sound bite that “I know Senator McCain has a lifetime of experience that he will bring to the White House and Senator Obama has a speech he gave in 2002.” Ouch.
Sound Bite: “Hillary’s Right.”
