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Palin Usurped "Concession" Speech

Geoffrey Dunn | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

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Geoffrey Dunn

Headlines recently declared "Sarah Palin's Speeches Were Ready but Never Seen -- Until Now." While Palin did not deliver her concession speech on election night, she did deliver most of it eight days later.

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Top McCain Aide: Press, Obama Made Him Change

Time | Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics

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The morning after John McCain's defeat, Mark Salter, McCain's closest aide and biographer, sipped coffee in the courtyard of the Biltmore Resort and S...

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In John Edwards' Country

Robert Draper | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: John Edwards, Cate Edwards, Gq, Andrew Young John Edwards, Ted Kennedy, Mark Salter, Elizabeth Edwards, John McCain, Political Memoir, Hal Crowther, Robert Draper, John Edwards Potential, Memoir, 2002 Midterm Election North Carolina, John Edwards Memoir, Erskine Bowles, Politics News
Robert Draper

Six years ago, John Edwards was looking ahead, and with good reason. No Southern politician seemed to have a more glorious future.

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The Straight Talk Train Wreck

Eugene Jarecki | Posted 11.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Why We Fight, Mark Salter, Straight Talk Express, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Eugene Jarecki

2008-10-30-mccainpull.jpg I'm not one to kick a man when he's down, but I feel compelled to share a cautionary tale of my own firsthand experience with the Straight-Talk Express. That hell-bent freight train rolled over me a couple years ago and I haven't felt the same since.

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McCain Loyalist Salter Turned Into Media Litigator

Washington Post | Posted 11.30.2008 | Politics

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"I see the bias for Obama all over," he said, and let that hang there. His office TV was muted, but his crazed beeper was signaling him every minute o...

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McCain's Narrative Problem

John McQuaid | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics

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John McQuaid

His campaign seems based on one idea alone: because of who he is -- not what he has done as a senator, not what he wants to do as president, but who he is -- John McCain should be president.

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Jason Linkins

McCain Aide Mark Salter Goes On Curse-Filled Rant Against Andrew Sullivan

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics

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No matter what one thinks of the McCain campaign -- and no matter how the election turns out -- this interview presages the must-read books that are sure to come from McCain campaign staffers around this time next year.

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Jed Lewison

Unsuspended: McCain Aide Confirms Several Hours Of Debate Prep...Last Night

HuffingtonPost.com | Jed Lewison | Posted 10.27.2008 | Politics

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According to MSNBC's David Shuster, McCain Aide Mark Salter has confirmed that last night John McCain spent two or three hours preparing for tonight's...

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Sam Stein

When "Losing One's Bearings" Is An Appropriate Campaign Attack

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.18.2008 | Politics

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Back in March, the McCain campaign was apoplectic after Barack Obama, responding to claims that he had been endorsed by Hamas, accused the Senator of ...

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Is John McCain Responsible for His Own Negative Campaign?

Robert Schlesinger | Posted 08.13.2008 | Politics

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Robert Schlesinger

It's McCain's campaign, not Steve Schmidt's or Mark Salter's or anyone else's. We might joke otherwise, but John McCain does take credit for his bizarre ads.

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McCain: You've Got Authenticity -- It's Time for Something Else

Tom Alderman | Posted 07.24.2008 | Politics

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Tom Alderman

We value authentic individuality. It's part of our national DNA -- which is why McCain has been so front-and-center all these years. He's nailed authentic -- and it isn't enough.

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LA Times Corroborates Arianna's McCain-Bush Report

Los Angeles Times | James Rainey | Posted 05.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: 2000 Shadow Conventions, McCain's 2000 Presidential Vote, Mark Salter, Arianna McCain Story, 2000 Election, John McCain 2000, Politics News, Jean Rohe, John McCain 2008, Bush McCain, McCain Didn't Vote for Bush, Bush McCain Endorsement, Arianna Huffington, McCain Vote 2000, McCain Romney, John McCain Bush, Politics News

A report by liberal blogger and author Arianna Huffington that John McCain had admitted not voting for George W. Bush in the 2000 presidential race sp...

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McCain and Me: Hero Worship Dies Hard (But When It Does...)

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.14.2008 | Politics

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Arianna Huffington

The way the McCain camp has reacted to my revelation about his not voting for Bush in 2000 is further confirmation that he is now willing to say or do anything, or sling mud at anyone, to satisfy his hunger for the White House.

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John McCain's Do Or Die Push In The Granite State

Matthew and Peter Slutsky | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

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Matthew and Peter Slutsky

Photo by Joshua Skaroff With just hours left to seal the deal with New Hampshire voters, Arizona Senator John McCain is presenting his final argumen...

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