Democrats
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35% Barack Obama
- War Chest:
- $80.3 million
- Bright Idea:
- Change, Hope
- Face Time:
- Trying to keep a lid on Florida
- Truth Squad:
- "If we went back to the obesity rates that existed in 1980, that would save the Medicare system a trillion dollars," Obama claimed in a debate. But Factcheck.org did a little rough math and came up with a number closer to $18.75 billion per year.
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40% Hillary Clinton
- War Chest:
- $90.9 million
- Bright Idea:
- Running as good cop/bad cop with her husband
- Face Time:
- It's all riding on the Quaker State
- Truth Squad:
- "Dr. King's dream began to be realized when President Lyndon Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It took a president to get it done." Clinton's civil rights faux pas may cost her critical delegates.
Republicans
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31% John McCain
- War Chest:
- $32.1 million
- Bright Idea:
- The surly maverick war hero thing really works for him
- Face Time:
- Bouncing around the country to various fundraisers
- Truth Squad:
- "You know that old Beach Boys song, Bomb Iran? Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran."
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3.6% Ron Paul
- War Chest:
- $8.3 million
- Bright Idea:
- Tapping into the Internet's passionately disillusioned masses
- Face Time:
- Maine, that critical swing state
- Truth Squad:
- Ron Paul is running as a Republican, but he's really a Libertarian by philosophy and often finds a like mind in Congress only in Dennis Kucinich.
