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"WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY Good morning! It&amp;#x27;s that time of the election season when the candidates have to stop appealing exclusively to their bases and start pandering to the vast swaths of other voters that the candidates believe can be enticed by not being too party-line about certain issues. Thus, we&amp;#x27;ve got news of Barack Obama trying to appeal to conservatives, John McCain meeting (secretly) with the gay community, plus more on the Clintons and MTV&amp;#x27;s grab for cash. It&amp;#x27;s all after the jump!Obama On The Death Penalty Obama joined McCain yesterday in condemning the Supreme Court&amp;#x27;s decision to overturn the death sentence of a man convicted of raping (but not killing) a child. Had the death sentence been carried out, it would have been the first time in more than 40 years that someone received capital punishment in a non-murder case. Obama&amp;#x27;s reasoning stemmed from that time-honored Republican tradition of honoring states&amp;#x27; rights, saying &amp;amp;quot;if a state makes a decision that under narrow, limited, well-defined circumstances the death penalty is at least potentially applicable, that that does not violate our Constitution.&amp;amp;quot; McCain went straight for hte law-and-order argument, though, so he probably wins this round. Obama on Wire Tapping The Senate is scheduled soon to vote on national security legislation that would, among other things, provide telecommunications companies with legal immunity for illegally helping the government tap people&amp;#x27;s phones. Although one might normally expect the Democratic candidate to oppose such legislation, Obama says, like a good Republican, that the security of the American people should trump their ability to protect their right to privacy. Some day soon, liberals are going to wonder aloud what the substantive differences between Obama and McCain are. McCain&amp;#x27;s Closeted Meeting On the Other side of the spectrum, McCain&amp;#x27;s been reaching out to his own non-traditional supporters, meeting this week with the President of the Log Cabin Republicans, a group representing gay Republicans. Bush met with them, too, in 2000 and hasn&amp;#x27;t spoken to any gay rights organization since he won. But this time, I&amp;#x27;m sure, will be totally different. The Clintons and Obama While Bill Clinton reportedly still holds a grudge against Obama, the Clinton camp is working with the Obama people to ensure that Hillary Clinton gets her debts paid and her speaking spot at the convention in Denver. Everyone agrees that it&amp;#x27;s still a little awkward, but it&amp;#x27;s always hard to be the runner-up and try to negotiate for bits of the tiara. MTV To Take Obama&amp;#x27;s Money For the first time in its history, MTV has said that it will accept campaign advertisements from candidates this year. I guess that&amp;#x27;s one less channel I can watch when I&amp;#x27;m off the clock and don&amp;#x27;t want to see any more ads! What do you think of Obama&amp;#x27;s positions on the death penalty and wiretapping? Do you think the Log Cabin Republicans will be betrayed by the Republican candidate again? And why do you think Bill Clinton is so mad at Obama? &amp;amp;#8212;Megan P.S. Who would you vote for, Cindy McCain or Michelle Obama? Take our 30-second poll and tell us!"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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