McCain's Chief Strategist Defends Palin VP Choice
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A top adviser from John McCain's presidential campaign who has criticized Sarah Palin's odds as a 2012 presidential candidat...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A top adviser from John McCain's presidential campaign who has criticized Sarah Palin's odds as a 2012 presidential candidat...
Geoffrey Dunn | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics
It's time for McCain to tell the truth about his campaign and, rather than blame his own failures on "the stock market crash," to accept responsibility for his lack of economic credibility and his selection of a running mate.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.02.2009 | Politics
If Sarah Palin is her party's nominee for president in 2012 it will be a "catastrophic election" for the GOP, Sen. John McCain's 2008 campaign manager...
The Washington Independent | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics
n the final months of the 2008 presidential race, Sen. John McCain's (R-Ariz.) campaign learned of a lawsuit filed in Pennsylvania that asked the stat...
AP | SHARON THEIMER | Posted 06.19.2009 | Style
WASHINGTON — The Federal Election Commission has dismissed a complaint over the $150,000-plus designer wardrobe the Republican Party bought to o...
Politics Daily | Posted 05.28.2009 | Politics
If things had gone differently..... John McCain, the oldest first-term president in history, is proving as rambunctious and pugnacious as the youngest...
Geoffrey Dunn | Posted 04.12.2009 | Politics
While personal and political controversies are muddying up Palin's political agenda in Alaska, the distant horizon of national politics looms ever so pristine -- and inviting.
The New Republic | Posted 03.27.2009 | Politics
The Republican Party has been using a grab-bag of strategies to counter Obama's policies over the past month. They rail against the stimulus package f...
CJR | Kate Klonick | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics
Michael Goldfarb was the McCain campaign's deputy communications director-cum-media bodyguard, tasked by McCain's high command with bullying the press...
The Huffington Post | Posted 01.15.2009 | Politics
The Daily Show revisits two presidential elections' worth of maverick highlights, from the Straight Talk Express to "That One." Watch: .cc_box a:hove...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.21.2008 | Politics
The chief pollster for John McCain's presidential campaign offered a candid diagnosis of how his candidate was done in, on occasion reserving harsh wo...
CNN Political Ticker | Posted 12.15.2008 | Politics
South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint on Friday became one of the first high-profile Republicans to publicly criticize John McCain following his electoral de...
CNN | Posted 12.15.2008 | Politics
(CNN) -- Rick Davis, the campaign manager for former John McCain's White House bid came to Sarah Palin's defense in an upcoming interview with the Nat...
New Yorker | Posted 12.10.2008 | Politics
A defining moment of the "old" John McCain--as many Americans, even some of his friends, have begun to refer to him as he was before his run for the P...
Time | Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics
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...
Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics
In one clear sentence, we are given an insight into the conservative mindset. In one simple question, we see more than just a sense of entitlement, almost to the degree of noblesse oblige.
Huffington Post | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
Steve Schmidt, McCain's top strategist, talks about the final day of the campaign: He's [McCain's] been working very hard over the last 100 days of ...
Cynthia Boaz | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
It would be a travesty if Obama won the national popular vote by a large margin, but lost the Electoral College narrowly because of electronic-voting manipulation in two or three states.
Brett Ashley McKenzie | Posted 12.05.2008 | Media
A word of advice: if you're going to call someone a socialist, you had better make certain you understand what one is prior to a national media appearance.
The St. Petersburg Times | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics
About 30 minutes before John McCain is scheduled to lead a rally outside Raymond James Stadium, looks like maybe 1,000 people here. What's up with tha...
Stephen Elliott | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.03.2008 | Politics
With the election less than 48 hours away, the Obama and McCain campaigns are trying entirely different tactics vis-à-vis robocalling to advance thei...
AP | Posted 12.02.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON (AP) -- That smiling guy walking down the street? Odds are he's a Barack Obama backer. The grouchy looking one? Don't ask, and don't necess...
AP | BETH FOUHY and DAVID ESPO | Posted 12.02.2008 | Politics
SPRINGFIELD, Va. — Warmed by the cheers of thousands, John McCain and Barack Obama plunged through the final weekend of their marathon race for ...
AP | MICHAEL R. BLOOD | Posted 12.02.2008 | Politics
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A loyal Democrat, Kenny Powers never shared Sarah Palin's conservative politics. But the United Way organizer confesses a fo...
AP | ANDREW DeMILLO | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics