John McCain's top pollster, Bill McInturff, said this evening that attacking Barack Obama over his relationship with Rev. Jeremiah Wright would not ha...
Time | Posted 12.26.2008 | Politics
What if the McCain campaign had run ads using footage of Barack Obama dancing with Ellen DeGeneres to show his coziness with celebrity? Or followed up...
Michael Hughes | Posted 11.30.2008 | Home
As November 4th approaches, voters are determining if they want to be an integral part of history, or on the wrong side of it. Forces are at work beyond description, like some divine hand pushing us forward.
Jerry and Joe Long | Posted 01.13.2009 | Politics
"Real Americans" from "Real America" give their carefully reasoned and meticulously constructed arguments against an Obama presidency. Behold the GOP base in all its glory.
Diane Francis | Posted 11.16.2008 | Politics
The third debate cinched Obama's landslide. Here's what I wrote in the Financial Post: It's all over but the crying The only "victory" the Republican...
Talking Points Memo | Posted 11.03.2008 | Politics
The McCain campaign has now shifted virtually 100 percent of his national ad spending into negative ads attacking Obama, a detailed breakdown of his a...
AP | BRENDAN FARRINGTON | Posted 10.16.2008 | Politics
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Did Barack Obama really call Sarah Palin a pig, as a John McCain ad leads people to believe? "No," McCain said Monday. The ...
Firedoglake | Posted 10.12.2008 | Politics
So the McCain campaign runs attack ads against Barack Obama basically saying he wants to diddle your five year old, and what does "Democratic Consulta...
Greg Saunders | Posted 09.28.2008 | Home
I don't know if the John McCain we've been seeing lately is the real McCain or "Candidate McCain," but either way, John McCain is turning out to be a real jerk.
Emily Pease | Posted 09.25.2008 | Home
It doesn't bother her that the campaign might turn ugly. "This is the Armageddon of politics," she said. "It's going to be war. I want to tell Barack, 'Don't fear it, accept it.'"
Newsweek | Posted 09.20.2008 | Politics
This is hardly the nastiest campaign in recent memory. But it's not shaping up as the "civil" contest that both candidates promised either. Instead, w...
HuffingtonPost.com | Rachel Weiner | Posted 09.07.2008 | Politics
John McCain's recent foray into pop culture commentary has drawn the mockery and scorn of everyone from Paris Hilton to his own mother. But did it wor...
ABC News | Posted 08.10.2008 | Politics
Britney Spears? Paris Hilton? Moses? The McCain campaign's ads comparing Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., to those figures may have prompted a chuckle, but...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.09.2008 | Politics
There is no doubt: in the past few weeks John McCain has made a conscious decision to run a negative, personalized campaign against Barack Obama. A ca...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics
Responding to a harsh personal attack from John McCain, Barack Obama released a television ad late Wednesday evening accusing the the Arizona Republic...
Posted 07.26.2008 | Politics
John McCain gets aggressive in his new ad, accusing Obama of changing his position on the Iraq for political reasons and ignoring Afghanistan in the S...
Boston Herald | Hillary Chabot | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics
GOP presidential contender John McCain says he can't control every attack ad aimed at Democrat Barack Obama and fully expects he'll face a similar bar...
Politico | Ben Smith | Posted 01.11.2009 | Politics