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			<title><![CDATA[The (abbreviated) morning line: July 18 edition]]></title>
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			<author>(Gordon Trowbridge)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[Good early Friday morning. We're gearing up for Sen. John McCain's visit this morning to General Motors' Warren technical facility, so no time for much analysis or many links this morning. But we'll be updating detnews.com with news from McCain's visit, so stay tuned.
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			<pubDate>Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 5:27 AM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Ruffini: McCain should target Michigan-Ohio]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Some interesting analysis this morning from Patrick Ruffini, a former Bush-Cheney campaign and Republican National Committee adviser on e-campaigning, recommending that the McCain campaign target Michigan and Ohio as its best path to victory in the fall.

Ruffini's analysis makes a couple of]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 8:58 AM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The morning line: July 17 edition]]></title>
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			<author>(Gordon Trowbridge)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[If the Detroit automakers really face insolvency, as one expert tells us this morning, then economic policymakers -- including the presidential candidates -- are not always going to be able to dodge the question of what the federal government should do about it.

There are plenty of reasons one]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 7:18 AM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Yob still in place in McCain campaign]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Conservative blog RightMichigan has a post up today questioning the lack of Michigan expertise on John McCain's campaign, and speculating about whether Michigan native John Yob, McCain's deputy political director since last spring, might have lost his position in the staff shakeup McCain went]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 3:11 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Muslim leader: Obama-Muslims story misses mark]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[We linked this morning to Bloomberg's piece questioning whether Barack Obama is hurting his chances in Michigan by keeping the state's Muslim community at arm's length.

Dawud Walid, the Michigan director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, has a pretty interesting take on the piece on]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 10:31 AM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Pro-Iraq war group releases second ad]]></title>
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			<author>(Gordon Trowbridge)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[Vets for Freedom, the pro-Iraq War group founded by former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer, has released its second ad to air in Michigan. The spot also will air in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia and Mexico, the group says.


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			<pubDate>Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 7:33 AM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The morning line: July 16 edition]]></title>
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			<author>(Gordon Trowbridge)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[What do the polls tell us?

Not much, this far out from November, one could argue. But a pair of national surveys out today give us a helpful guide to the terrain of the presidential race, in terms of policy and democragphics.

The Washington Post and ABC News find Barack Obama with an 8-point]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 7:21 AM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Obama says e-mails insult him and Muslims]]></title>
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			<author>(Gordon Trowbridge)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[In an interview to air tonight on CNN's "Larry King Live," Barack Obama says he has "been derelict" at times in not pointing out that those anonymous e-mails calling him a Muslim are an insult to Muslims as well as to him.

From the transcript:

KING: Considering that, though, there's a lot of]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 5:24 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Rasmussen: Levin holds big, stable lead]]></title>
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			<author>(Gordon Trowbridge)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[Sen. Carl Levin continues to hold a big lead in his re-election bid, according to a new Rasmussen Reports survey of Michigan voters.

Levin holds a 21-percentage-point lead over Republican challenger Jack Hoogendyk, basically unchanged since Rasmussen's last poll, in June. The survey of likely]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 2:36 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Obama new Michigan ad is on security]]></title>
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			<author>(Gordon Trowbridge)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[The Obama campaign will air this new ad in Michigan and 17 other states:



This is pretty clearly a response to GOP attacks on Obama's national security experience and their accusations of partisanship -- not only does it focus on a national security issue, but it touts his work with Republican]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 10:38 AM</pubDate>
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