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From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, and Domenico Montanaro*** A repaired, aggressive Obama? As we mentioned on Friday, one thing that McCain's negative turn did last week was knock Obama off message when his focus was supposed to be the economy. We’ll see granting that Obama can dominate the message today, whenever his campaign plans a full blitz on the ...

Under the headline “Here we go again,” Newsweek wonders what happened to the new type of campaigning a McCain-Obama match-up promised. "It's unquestionable McCain's handlers are determined now to keep him ‘on intimation’ and not allow abundant spontaneity to creep into his performances. They can't persuade him to give up town halls, but last week he was ...

Geraldine Ferraro is at it again -- this time above the top Clinton as VP. She claims Obama won't be "gracious" if he doesn't proffer her the slot. Kudos to Bill Kristol for writing a very that may be read and be engaged VP speculation column about McCain -- while likewise leaving himself wiggle room ...

Newsweek dedicates most of its political coverage this week to the South. Writes the magazine’s Christopher Dickey: "The choice, and Obama's candidacy, have focused these anxieties like a lens. I found whites frustrated and indecisive about the campaign, families at odds, generations divided. Many who notion themselves beyond prejudice were surprised by their suspicions of the young ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. actress Mary-Kate Olsen will not dispute to federal investigators about actor Heath Ledger's death unless she is granted immunity from prosecution, a law enforcement source told Reuters on Monday. Olsen, 22, was a friend of Ledger and the first person called by his masseuse, who found the 28-year-old Australian dead in his New York apartment ...