Barack Obama


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The Obama campaign asked CNN to air its 30-minute campaign ad, scheduled for Wednesday evening, but the network turned them down.

“CNN was approached by the Obama campaign and declined their request,” the network said in a Tuesday statement. “We did not want to pre-empt our programming lineup with a 30-minute campaign commercial. We prefer to use our air to continue to cover the campaign, candidates and issues like we always do from all points of view with the best political team on television.”

The half hour infomercial will be airing on CBS, NBC, FOX television, MSNBC, Univision, BET and TV One.  Maybe it’s just me, but I applaud CNN for not airing the content, as I feel that a news organization’s responsibility is to be as unbiased as possible (granted, I believe there will always be political ‘tones’ with each network).

Useful poll information, courtesy of Real Clear Politics.  Essentially, they gather the information from various polls conducted recently, and combine them to determine an average.

Colorado 51.3 43.0 Obama +8.3
Ohio 49.3 43.0 Obama +6.3
Florida 48.2 44.8 Obama +3.4
Nevada 50.0 42.5 Obama +7.5
Missouri 47.4 46.8 Obama +0.6
North Carolina 48.3 47.0 Obama +1.3
Virginia 50.7 43.3 Obama +7.4

Make sure to point your browser to us on Tuesday, November 4th, as we will be covering Election 2008 minute by minute.  Not only will we be covering Carolina politics and the presidential race, we will also be covering various races across the nation!