Can America Afford a McCain First Term?
If managing a presidential campaign is any indication of how these candidates will perform day one in the White House, it is McCain's campaign, not Obama's that should be worrying American voters.
If managing a presidential campaign is any indication of how these candidates will perform day one in the White House, it is McCain's campaign, not Obama's that should be worrying American voters.
HuffingtonPost.com | Rachel Weiner | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics
It's not just surrogates that are giving John McCain trouble. Spokeswoman Jill Hazelbaker went on Fox News and said of Obama's trip abroad, "Let's dro...
New York Magazine | Posted 07.14.2008 | Politics
Feel free to tell me I'm nuts for asking the question, but doesn't it seem that, more and more, the McCain campaign is turning into the Clinton campai...
Mario Solis-Marich | Posted 07.14.2008 | Politics
McCain's national spokesman said he doesn't "review some of the regional media." In other words, the campaign would like to define its national agenda by what's reported in the Washington Post.
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel | Posted 07.13.2008 | Politics
At the end of another adventuresome week on the trail, full of ups and downs and awkward developments, John McCain talked about campaigning without a ...
AP | CHARLES BABINGTON | Posted 07.12.2008 | Politics
HUDSON, Wis. — Every presidential campaign has its hitches. For John McCain, they felt more like full-blown lurches this week, with nearly every...
Portfolio | Lloyd Grove | Posted 07.12.2008 | Politics
As chief executive of Hewlett-Packard from 1999 to 2005, Carly Fiorina was the most powerful woman in corporate America. She also became one of the mo...
Mother Jones | David Corn | Posted 07.08.2008 | Media
John McCain has cultivated the rep of a politician unafraid of questions. When he campaigned for president in 2000, he often hung out with reporters o...
New York Times | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics
Senator John McCain's campaigns have long been defined by internal squabbling and power plays, zigzagging lines of command and a penchant by the candi...
Marc Ambinder | Posted 07.07.2008 | Politics
The Republican world today is buzzing over the McCain campaign Kremlinology attempted by de facto McCain insider Bill Kristol, who, while not being pa...
Talking Points Memo | Posted 07.07.2008 | Politics
This line from a top McCain adviser, in a Politico article on Obama's efforts to convince the electorate that he's American through and through, is un...
Politico | Posted 07.07.2008 | Politics
Mitt Romney is soliciting his donor list for contributions to the McCain campaign. He sent a letter to supporters that came with a "Mitt Romney, Belm...
ABC News | Posted 07.06.2008 | Politics
ABC News' George Stephanopoulos Reports: ABC News has learned that the McCain campaign has hired Mike DuHaime as political director, the first new hir...
AP | LIZ SIDOTI | Posted 07.05.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — John McCain calls himself an underdog. That may be an understatement. The GOP presidential candidate trails Democrat Barack Obama ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics
Newly appointed McCain campaign director Steve Schmidt sent out a memo to staff on Thursday reiterating support for the campaign's regional operations...
OffTheBus Listening Post | Posted 07.02.2008 | Home
WHO: Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) and Senior Policy Advisor Kori Schake WHAT: Press conference call to discuss Obama's and McCain's positions on Iraq...
Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics
Rick Davis is being replaced by Steve Schmidt as head of day-to-day operations in McCain's campaign, the Politico reports. McCain aide Carly Fiorina...
Poitico | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics
Since effectively capturing the Republican nomination when Mitt Romney dropped out of the race on February 7, John McCain has held just one public cam...
AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 06.21.2008 | Politics
OTTAWA — Call it campaign growing pains. Or bad luck. Or a combination of the two. By any name, Sen. John McCain is hampered by missteps and se...
AP | BETH FOUHY | Posted 06.21.2008 | Politics
NEW YORK — Jimmy Carter has been among the country's most active retired presidents, but even the peripatetic Georgian might not have anticipate...
AP | MICHAEL TARM | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics
CHICAGO — Republican presidential John McCain assured Hispanic leaders he would push through Congress legislation to overhaul federal immigratio...
Jackson Williams | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics
There's a debate over whether it's wise to have Giuliani as McCain's campaign surrogate on matters of terrorism and homeland security. Obviously McCain thinks so, but last September he didn't sound so sure.
NBC News | Posted 06.07.2008 | Politics
NBC News has learned that McCain advisors expect to have a new policy on fundraiser coverage as early as next week. The campaign expects to include ...
Dawn Teo | Posted 06.05.2008 | Home
We're talking McCain's home state of 30 years-- there must be events, I thought, a troupe of highly motivated supporters making battle plans? But No, McCain HQ in Virginia told me there was absolutely nothing happening in Arizona.
Lee Camp | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics

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Daniel Burrell | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics