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Thursday, July 17, 2008
Obama campaign plans women-to-women events
Women voters flocked to Hillary Clinton during the Democratic primaries but now it’s Barack Obama’s turn to try to win their support.
To honor the 160th anniversary of the conference on women’s rights in Seneca Falls, N.Y., Obama’s Ohio presidential campaign plans a weekend full of grassroots, women-to-women events.
Altogether, more than 60 events are planned across the state on Saturday, July 19, and Sunday, July 20, including in the Dayton area. They’ll include phone banks, house parties, neighborhood canvasses and voter registration drives.
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McCain campaign hammers Obama on Iraq
Just as Democrat Barack Obama prepares for a trip to Iraq, the John McCain campaign unleashed nearly eight minute video on YouTube that documents Obama’s shifting positions on the war.
While Obama’s short tenure in the U.S. Senate makes it more difficult to mine for inconsistent votes and stances, the McCain researchers have scoured video archives to produce “The Obama Iraq Documentary: Whatever the Politics Demand.”
The Obama campaign responded with its own attack on McCain’s Iraq policies.
“All John McCain has ever looked for in Iraq are reasons to stay there indefinitely. He has stubbornly championed a strategy of fighting an unnecessary war in Iraq regardless of the shifting facts offered to justify it, regardless of the levels of violence and political progress in the country, and regardless of the gathering strength of the Taliban and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. And now, as he advocates a policy of staying in Iraq indefinitely, it is clear that he is going to continue to adhere to George Bush’s ideological agenda even as every other critical national security challenge is neglected, and our troops continue to fight tour after tour of duty and our taxpayers spend $10 billion a month in Iraq,” said Obama campaign spokesman Hari Sevugan.
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Voters oppose same-sex marriage
Same-sex marriage again is in the news during a presidential election and a new national poll shows that American voters oppose it, 55-36 percent.
However, the Quinnipiac University poll, released Thursday, July 17, also finds that voters don’t want government to get involved in banning the practice.
By a 56-38 percent margin, voters oppose amending the U.S. Constitution to ban same-sex marriage. More narrowly, voters across the nation by a 49-45 percent margin oppose their states banning same sex marriage.
There’s a huge partisan divide on the issue.
In the poll, Democrats support same-sex marriage, 47-43 percent while Republicans are against it, 80-14 percent and independents oppose it 49-43 percent.
Same-sex was a big issue in Ohio in the 2004 election when a proposed constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage was approved. A strong turnout among voters backing the amendment was credited with helping Republican President Bush defeat Democrat John Kerry in Ohio.
This year efforts are underway to put a ballot initiative banning same-sex marriage on the ballot in California after a court ruling gave the OK for gay couples to marry.
The poll also tests voter opinions on other issues such as abortion, gun control and the death penalty.
The poll was conducted July 8 to Sunday, July 13, and has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.3 percentage points.
