10-20-2008, 08:39 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2008
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Obama's Record Fund Haul...
McCain should just hand over the keys now. It's a done deed.
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AP
Monday, 20 October 2008
Obama's staggering $150 million in donations in September more than doubles his previous record, and gives him leverage to campaign in battleground states and to force McCain to defend Republican turf.
Democrat Barack Obama snared the coveted endorsement of former Secretary of State Colin Powell and announced a record-shattering fundraising haul, handing another setback to Republican John McCain's lagging presidential campaign.
The decision by Powell, a Republican who served as President George W. Bush's first secretary of state, undermines McCain's claim that his rival is not ready to be commander-in-chief of the US military. It could help Obama seal the deal with independent and moderate voters concerned about his qualifications in the final two weeks before the November 4 election.
Obama's staggering $150 million in donations in September more than doubles his previous record, and gives him leverage to campaign in battleground states and to force McCain to defend Republican turf.
McCain, meanwhile, stumped in swing state Ohio, pushing himself as an advocate of working class Americans and small business owners, and asserting that the Illinois senator's tax plan amounted to socialism.
Powell called McCain's words "an unfortunate characterization that isn't accurate" and part of an overly negative campaign by "my beloved friend and colleague John McCain, a friend of 25 years."
"I think we need a transformational figure. I think we need a president who is a generational change and that's why I'm supporting Barack Obama, not out of any lack of respect or admiration for Sen. John McCain," Powell said on NBC television.
The Gallup Poll daily tracking survey showed on Sunday that Obama was leading McCain nationally by 10 percentage points, 52-42, an uptick after declining to as little six points last week...
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