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FLASH: Drudge Report is now reporting that more than 37 million viewers watched Sarah Palin's speech last night! That's just a hair under The Messiah's numbers of 38 million -- and he had a 19 month media build-up to his speech!
Drudge Report is reporting at the top of the page that a source says the name of McCain's VP pick:
MAY LEAK AT 6 PM ET... WITH SOME SORT OF CONFIRMATION AT 8 PM... DEVELOPING...
Isn't this exactly what we suggested here at Blogs for John McCain last night:
I would not be surprised though, if word just happened to leak out to some intrepid reporter late tomorrow afternoon - just about the time Obama begins his speech at the Parthenon in Invesco Field.
Perfect timing!
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The Drudge Report is now running a poll asking who readers believe John McCain will choose as his Vice-Presidential running mate. Click on the image to go there and vote on the poll.
The poll is on the right side of the page.
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The Drudge Report is now headlining John McCain's lead over Barack Obama in the new Reuters/Zogby Poll. For whatever reason, Drudge has given John McCain very little positive exposure on his page, and has endlessly featured Obama. His headlining of McCain's lead shows he knows this is a significant movement toward McCain.
Drudge Report is headlining the news that the New York Times has refused to print an editorial submitted by Sen. John McCain to answer the editorial by Barack Obama they published on his plan for Iraq. The Times said they would consider publishing it if McCain changed it to "mirror" Obama's editorial:
NYT REJECTS MCCAIN'S EDITORIAL; SHOULD 'MIRROR' OBAMA
Mon Jul 21 2008 12:00:25 ET
An editorial written by Republican presidential hopeful McCain has been rejected by the NEW YORK TIMES -- less than a week after the paper published an essay written by Obama, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.
The paper's decision to refuse McCain's direct rebuttal to Obama's 'My Plan for Iraq' has ignited explosive charges of media bias in top Republican circles.
'It would be terrific to have an article from Senator McCain that mirrors Senator Obama's piece,' NYT Op-Ed editor David Shipley explained in an email late Friday to McCain's staff. 'I'm not going to be able to accept this piece as currently written.'
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In McCain's submission to the TIMES, he writes of Obama: 'I am dismayed that he never talks about winning the war?only of ending it... if we don't win the war, our enemies will. A triumph for the terrorists would be a disaster for us. That is something I will not allow to happen as president.'
NYT's Shipley advised McCain to try again: 'I'd be pleased, though, to look at another draft.'
[Shipley served in the Clinton Administration from 1995 until 1997 as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Presidential Speechwriter.]
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A top McCain source claims the paper simply does not agree with the senator's Iraq policy, and wants him to change it, not "re-work the draft."
McCain writes in the rejected essay: 'Progress has been due primarily to an increase in the number of troops and a change in their strategy. I was an early advocate of the surge at a time when it had few supporters in Washington. Senator Barack Obama was an equally vocal opponent. 'I am not persuaded that 20,000 additional troops in Iraq is going to solve the sectarian violence there,' he said on January 10, 2007. 'In fact, I think it will do the reverse.'
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Shipley, who is on vacation this week, explained his decision not to run the editorial.
'The Obama piece worked for me because it offered new information (it appeared before his speech); while Senator Obama discussed Senator McCain, he also went into detail about his own plans.'
Shipley continues: 'It would be terrific to have an article from Senator McCain that mirrors Senator Obama's piece. To that end, the article would have to articulate, in concrete terms, how Senator McCain defines victory in Iraq.'
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