<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>McCain vs. Obama: Rasmuessen's Most Recent Report : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><link><id>63742</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/63742/1/</url><title><![CDATA[McCain vs. Obama: Rasmuessen's Most Recent Report]]></title><description><![CDATA[When it comes to the economy, 47% of voters trust John McCain more than Barack Obama. Obama is trusted more by 41%. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey also found that, when it comes to the War in Iraq, McCain is trusted more by 49% of voters. Obama is preferred by 37%. McCain has an even larger edge --53% to 31%--on the broader topic of National Security.]]></description><comments>38</comments><score>-28</score><crdate>5/30/2008 12:39:14 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-05-30T12:39:14+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>79962</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/79962/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Obama Opens Double-Digit Lead Over McCain: Poll]]></title><description><![CDATA[Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has opened up a 10-point lead over Republican opponent John McCain two weeks before the November 4 U.S. election, according to Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll released on Tuesday.]]></description><comments>7</comments><score>62</score><crdate>10/21/2008 8:27:37 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-10-21T20:27:37+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>65970</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/65970/1/</url><title><![CDATA[The Truth About Barack Obama]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rather than restate untruths about Obama, the campaign would do better to start some rumors of its own.<br/><br/>Such as: Barack Obama wears a FLAG PIN at all times. Even in the shower. <br/><br/>and: There's only one artist on Barack Obama's iPod: FRANCIS SCOTT KEY.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>232</score><crdate>6/19/2008 4:25:11 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-06-19T16:25:11+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>80565</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/80565/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Obama Fires Back At McCain's Tactics]]></title><description><![CDATA[Barack Obama accused Republican rival John McCain on Wednesday of stooping to low tactics by labeling the Democrat a socialist.]]></description><comments>5</comments><score>187</score><crdate>10/29/2008 7:47:50 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-10-29T19:47:50+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>72546</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/72546/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Conservatives Claim Obama Is &#8216;So Bad For The Economy,&#8217; While Wall Street Donates More To Obama]]></title><description><![CDATA[Conservatives have been trying to frighten investors about the prospects of a Barack Obama presidency. <br/><br/>Wall Street however, disagrees, and is donating more to Obama&#8217;s campaign than to the campaign of Sen. John McCain]]></description><comments>6</comments><score>82</score><crdate>8/16/2008 11:21:58 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-08-16T11:21:58+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>79588</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/79588/1/</url><title><![CDATA[McCain on the attack, Obama unrattled.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The third debate: McCain is on the attack and Obama is cooler than an ice cube.]]></description><comments>20</comments><score>250</score><crdate>10/16/2008 3:02:52 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-10-16T03:02:52+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>75239</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/75239/1/</url><title><![CDATA[USA Today: McCain up by 10% among likely voters]]></title><description><![CDATA[John McCain up 54% to 44% among likely voters according to a new USA Today poll.<br/><br/>Sarah Palin effect?  Maybe?]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>89</score><crdate>9/7/2008 10:17:45 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-09-07T22:17:45+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>66613</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/66613/1/</url><title><![CDATA[McCain Better Than Obama?]]></title><description><![CDATA[It would seem that some voters think that McCain is better suited to handle the war than Obama. <br/><br/>Thoughts?]]></description><comments>42</comments><score>222</score><crdate>6/25/2008 8:38:01 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-06-25T08:38:01+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>82116</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/82116/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Documentary to explore media impact on voters.]]></title><description><![CDATA[On Election day twelve Obama voters were interviewed extensively right after they voted to learn how the news media impacted their knowledge of what occurred during the campaign. These voters were chosen for their apparent intelligence/verbal abilities and willingness to express their opinions to a large audience. The rather shocking video below seeks to provide some insight into which information broke through the news media clutter and which did not. <br/><br/>All of this was conducted for a forthcoming documentary on how the news media impacted the 2008 election. Please get on our mailing list and return to this website in the coming months for more information on the film, &quot;Media Malpractice... How Obama Got Elected&quot;<br/><br/>Because obviously interviewing a relative handful of Obama voters, while interesting, is hardly scientific proof of anything, we also commissioned a Zogby telephone poll which asked the very same questions (as well as a few others) with similarly amazing results. <br/><br/>Zogby Poll<br/><br/>512 Obama Voters 11/13/08-11/15/08 MOE +/- 4.4 points <br/><br/>97.1% High School Graduate or higher, 55% College Graduates <br/><br/>Results to 12 simple Multiple Choice Questions <br/><br/>57.4% could NOT correctly say which party controls congress (50/50 shot just by guessing) <br/><br/>81.8% could NOT correctly say Joe Biden quit a previous campaign because of plagiarism (25% chance by guessing) <br/><br/>82.6% could NOT correctly say that Barack Obama won his first election by getting opponents kicked off the ballot (25% chance by guessing) <br/><br/>88.4% could NOT correctly say that Obama said his policies would likely bankrupt the coal industry and make energy rates skyrocket (25% chance by guessing)<br/><br/>56.1% could NOT correctly say Obama started his political career at the home of two former members of the Weather Underground (25% chance by guessing). <br/><br/>And yet..... <br/><br/>Only 13.7% failed to identify Sarah Palin as the person on which their party spent $150,000 in clothes <br/><br/>Only 6.2% failed to identify Palin as the one with a pregnant teenage daughter <br/><br/>And 86.9 % thought that Palin said that she could see Russia from her &quot;house,&quot; even though that was Tina Fey who said that!! <br/><br/>Only 2.4% got at least 11 correct. <br/><br/>Only .5% got all of them correct. (And we &quot;gave&quot; one answer that was technically not Palin, but actually Tina Fey)]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>9</score><crdate>11/17/2008 9:47:37 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-11-17T21:47:37+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>80870</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/80870/1/</url><title><![CDATA['I Would Make A Bad President,' Obama Says In Huge Campaign Blunder]]></title><description><![CDATA[&quot;I think Sen. Obama may have opened up a slight window for John McCain here,&quot; New York Times reporter David Sanger said during Wednesday's taping of Charlie Rose. &quot;If the McCain camp can find some way to exploit this miscue, it could have the potential to be a real game-changer.&quot;]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>34</score><crdate>11/2/2008 2:16:10 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-11-02T14:16:10+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>60215</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/60215/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Obama, the Candidate of Shadows]]></title><description><![CDATA[Throughout his campaign Barack Obama has mocked his critics, noting that they just don't get what a novel figure and consistent unifier he has been for his whole life. &quot;They say: We don't know enough about him. His pastor once said something. He's got a funny name, sounds Muslim.&quot;]]></description><comments>7</comments><score>23</score><crdate>4/30/2008 8:10:33 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-30T20:10:33+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>80659</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/80659/1/</url><title><![CDATA[If Iraqis Could Vote It Would Be For McCain]]></title><description><![CDATA[The personal qualities and political platforms of McCain and his Democrat rival Barack Obama are of little import to Ali, however. His focus is on Iraq and its neighbours such as Iran.<br/><br/>&quot;The Iranians believe that if Obama is elected he will not take action against them despite their nuclear ambitions. That worries me,&quot; said Ali...]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>2</score><crdate>10/30/2008 8:32:12 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-10-30T20:32:12+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>70985</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/70985/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Ludacris bumps Barack Obama, blasts John McCain! What a surprise...]]></title><description><![CDATA[LYRICS: <i>&quot;Hillary hated on you, so that b***h is irrelevant,&quot; &quot;McCain don't belong in ANY chair unless he's paralyzed / Yeah I said it cause Bush is mentally handicapped.&quot;</i><br/><br/>The song notes that Obama has praised Ludacris, and calls on him to <i>&quot;give Luda a special pardon if I'm ever in the slammer.&quot;</i>]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>-26</score><crdate>8/2/2008 12:26:36 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-08-02T12:26:36+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>79878</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/79878/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Oops! McCain asks Russia's U.N. envoy for money]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the letter, McCain urged Russia's U.N. Ambassador, Vitaly Churkin, to contribute anywhere from $35 to $5,000 to help ensure McCain's victory over Democratic rival Sen. Barack Obama, currently ahead in voter preference polls.]]></description><comments>12</comments><score>1</score><crdate>10/20/2008 6:09:10 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-10-20T18:09:10+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>78709</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/78709/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Push to register felons to vote could aid Obama]]></title><description><![CDATA[The nonprofit groups and individual activists making the push on felons' behalf agree the effort is broader this year than in previous elections, even if they aren't necessarily making a coordinated push. They expect that effort to benefit Barack Obama more than John McCain, given that the population of former felons is disproportionately black.<br/><br/><i>Good program... or dangerous and unfair policy?</i>]]></description><comments>18</comments><score>-12</score><crdate>10/5/2008 12:34:17 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-10-05T00:34:17+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>75053</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/75053/1/</url><title><![CDATA[TV Ratings: McCain Has Slight Edge on Obama; Could Be Decided by Supreme Court]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mr. McCain&#8217;s speech was watched by 38.9 million viewers on the three broadcast networks, three cable news channels, and two Spanish-language channels, according to Nielsen. That figure is slightly ahead of the 38.3 million who watched Mr. Obama last Thursday on those eight channels plus BET and TV One. <i>-NY Times</i>]]></description><comments>8</comments><score>-6</score><crdate>9/5/2008 9:07:51 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-09-05T21:07:51+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>75689</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/75689/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Green Jobs by John Stossel]]></title><description><![CDATA[Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has a great twofer pitch: &quot;green jobs.&quot; It sounds like a winner. In one fell swoop he can promise to end unemployment and fix and save the planet from climate change.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>36</score><crdate>9/10/2008 3:46:51 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-09-10T15:46:51+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>79645</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/79645/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Gallup: Obama 49 McCain 47]]></title><description><![CDATA[Wait, I thought Obama had this election in a &quot;lock box&quot;.<br/><br/>Oops!]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>55</score><crdate>10/16/2008 4:55:14 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-10-16T16:55:14+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>61120</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/61120/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Obama: World wants to see U.S. lead]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sen. Barack Obama said Thursday that the most important thing he could achieve as president would be to deal with Iraq and the threat of al Qaeda in Afghanistan while improving &quot;our <b>influence</b> around the world.&quot;<br/><br/>This is where Obama's foreign policy starts to look like W's.]]></description><comments>18</comments><score>104</score><crdate>5/8/2008 5:50:10 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-05-08T17:50:10+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>80571</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/80571/1/</url><title><![CDATA[McCain Camp Cries Sexism At Obama Ad Using Palin's Wink]]></title><description><![CDATA[The reviews are in from the McCain camp on the Obama &quot;Choice&quot; ad - the one that uses footage of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin winking. Short version: the McCain side thinks it's demeaning, insulting and sexist.]]></description><comments>13</comments><score>118</score><crdate>10/29/2008 9:29:10 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-10-29T21:29:10+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>64268</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/64268/1/</url><title><![CDATA[McCain v. Obama on the Economy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Okay, this article doesn't have pretty pictures or fancy videos, but it does contian some really important information on the economic platforms of our presidential candidates.  If you live in America and plan to vote, please read it (as well as anything else you can find on their platforms).  Please, people, let's not vote either way because of race.  There's much more to it than that.]]></description><comments>19</comments><score>245</score><crdate>6/4/2008 9:46:40 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-06-04T09:46:40+01:00</atomdate></link></items></xml>