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WASHINGTON (AP): The presidential campaigns of Barack Obama and John McCain traded charges over who was guilty of injecting race into the presidential debate and blamed each other Friday for its increasingly negative tone.
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Democrats anxious for Obama to widen lead
By Edward Luce in Washington
Published: August 1 2008 20:08 | Last updated: August 1 2008 20:08
In 1980, Ronald Reagan asked voters whether they felt better off than four years earlier. He went on to defeat Jimmy Carter a few weeks later. On Friday Barack Obama raised the same question: “Do you think that you are better off now than you were four years ago or eight years ago?” he asked voters in Florida. “And if you don’t . . . do you think you can afford another four years of the same failed economic policies that we’ve had under George W. Bush?”
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Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has focused Friday on rising energy costs, while Republican John McCain touted his plan for education reform.
Senator Obama told a town hall meeting Friday in St. Petersburg, in the southeastern state of Florida that families are struggling and need relief now.
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Hours before Senator Barack Obama arrived at St. Petersburg, Fla., on Friday for a town-hall-style campaign meeting, the newspaper had arrived on people’s doorsteps, and the news was not good.
“Florida is in recession” screamed the banner headline in the St. Petersburg Times, overshadowing for a while the slash-and-burn turn of the presidential campaign.
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Ludacris’ Obama song unlikely to alienate voters
By ERRIN HAINES –
ATLANTA (AP) — Ludacris’ new song, “Politics as Usual,” may have cost him one of his biggest fans, Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama.
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