McCain Remains Absolutely Anchored Down By Bush: Poll
Poll numbers don't look good for John McCain these days. But the internal dynamics are even worse. A Pew Research poll released on Tuesday reveals th...
Poll numbers don't look good for John McCain these days. But the internal dynamics are even worse. A Pew Research poll released on Tuesday reveals th...
Politico | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics
With despair rising even among many of John McCain's own advisors, influential Republicans inside and outside his campaign are engaged in an intense r...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.16.2008 | Politics
John McCain put out a one-minute ad Thursday morning that is noteworthy on a number of fronts: the Senator speaks directly into the camera, he admonis...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.16.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama is out with the first post-debate campaign ad. He goes directly after what was perceived to be one of John McCain's best lines from Wedne...
Ron Suskind | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics
So, how did we get a war inside the Republican party that may leave the economy in shambles? Look to the end of last week, when McCain made his odd Washington cameo.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics
A prominent GOP strategist said on Monday that John McCain handled his role in the bailout process poorly and would ultimately be hurt politically by ...
Michael Shaw | Posted 10.26.2008 | Politics
HuffingtonPost.com | Jed Lewison | Posted 10.23.2008 | Politics
Earlier tonight on CNN, Campbell Brown and Ed Henry discussed John McCain's attempt to reinvent himself as a champion of regulation after being a cham...
Craig Newmark | Posted 10.11.2008 | Home
McCain's record doesn't look like the record of a change-maker by any stretch of the imagination. In fact, looks like he's dominated by the same lobbyists Bush has been beholden to for the last eight years.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.03.2008 | Politics
George Bush received a standing ovation by the crowd at the Republican Convention on Tuesday, in an address that said as much about the evolution of t...
Sidney Blumenthal | Posted 10.03.2008 | Home
The McCain campaign and the Bush White House negotiated terms that unfolded as a script over the past several days, several sources told me.
Politico | Posted 09.29.2008 | Politics
John McCain will headline four big-ticket fall fundraisers and deploy his running mate to 17 events across the country after the GOP convention wraps ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.13.2008 | Politics
I'm really enjoying McCain spokesperson Tucker Bounds' response to this Obama ad today: "In the Senate, Barack Obama has voted in lockstep with Presi...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.13.2008 | Politics
Coming off a week in which he was compared to Britney Spears and Paris Hilton and saw his standing in the polls drop, Democrats' chief concern when as...
Stephen C. Rose | Posted 08.12.2008 | Home
On Letterman that October, our experience candidate, was selling Bush's disastrous foreign policy, just as he is today, and in the signature Bush style: smugly and crudely.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.02.2008 | Politics
Last week, the Democratic National Committee blasted out to reporters a memo of selected quotes designed to show the John McCain not only making unrea...
Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics
In an interview last weekend with the New York Times, John McCain stated definitively that he opposes adoption rights for gay and lesbian couples. Ask...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics
For weeks, John McCain has been fighting off the notion that his presidency would be a third Bush term, even using a prime time address -- on the nigh...
AP | ALAN FRAM and TREVOR TOMPSON | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Now more than ever, it's the old guy against the agent of change. Ask people to blurt out their first words about the two presiden...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics
Earlier today, Jonathan Martin of The Politico noted that John McCain was prominently featuring a picture of he and President George W. Bush standing ...
Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics
Via The Politico, McCain isn't shying away from Bush in his fundraising pitches. McCain has said he agrees with Bush on the "transcendent issues." B...
Huffington Post | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics
***UPDATE*** The Obama campaign has slammed John McCain's chief advisor, Charlie Black, for his comments that a terrorist attack on U.S. soil would c...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics
It has been observed that one of Sen. John McCain's most foreboding obstacles in seeking the White House will likely be the lengthy paper trail that c...
Politico | Jonathan Martin | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics
In separate interviews today, John McCain compared Barack Obama to Jimmy Carter. Speaking to Fox's Carl Cameron, McCain raised Carter's name, putting...
The Huffington Post | Posted 07.26.2008 | Politics
On the same day that a CBS News poll found that 64 percent of Americans think Sen. John McCain is the same or even more conservative than President Bu...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.28.2008 | Politics