The Huffington Post

by Walter Alarkon - 10/24/08 9:19 AM ET

Barack Obama’s candidacy is building strength, seen in a New York Times/CBS survey that shows the Democrat gaining among former voters of President Bush, the front page of the Post notes. Though John McCain is trying to play the “be afraid” game in the final weeks of the election, a new University of California, Berkeley study suggests that terror warnings are having the opposite effect for McCain that they had for President Bush in past races, writes Arianna Huffington.

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