Mccain Campaign

Sam Stein

Clintonites Offer McCain Advice: Make A Dramatic Play And Pray

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.23.2008 | Politics


Facing a difficult electoral map and dispiriting public opinion polls, John McCain finds himself in a situation similar to Hillary Clinton's in the cl...

Sam Stein

The McCain Camp's Newer And Nastier Robocall Campaign

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.23.2008 | Politics


Ignoring widespread criticism, even from within his own party, John McCain's presidential campaign launched on Wednesday a fresh and vicious wave of r...

Custer Called, He Wants His Stand Back

Sam Greenfield | Posted 11.22.2008 | Politics


Sam Greenfield

Say there, have you noticed? The country is turning brown. The next president could well be brown. The biggest sports heroes in Boston are brown. BOST...

Sam Stein

NYT Mag Lifts Curtain On Palin Choice, Angst With Schmidt, Worry In McCain Campaign

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.21.2008 | Politics


The New York Times Magazine is set to publish an explosive story this Sunday on the inner workings and combative personalities of what has been a wild...

McCain Campaign Looking For Way To Win Without Colorado

CNN | John King | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics


The McCain campaign is looking at an Electoral College strategy heading into the final two weeks that has virtually no room for error and depends heav...

Links to Story About Canvasser Getting Assaulted

Jeff Dorchen | Posted 11.19.2008 | Media


Jeff Dorchen

Local papers in Wisconsin doing their job.

Peggy Noonan: Palin's Failin'

Wall Street Journal | Peggy Noonan | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics


"Sometimes the leak is so bad that even a plumber can't fix it." This was the concise summation of a cable political strategist the other day, after t...

Can McCain Stage Another Comeback?

Washington Independent | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics


There are 18 days until the end of Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign. Having begun this campaign as the clear front-runner -- not only for the ...

McCain Wrong, Real Estate Prices Must Devalue

Vanessa Edwards Foster | Posted 11.15.2008 | Home


Vanessa Edwards Foster

Either American living standards must continue eroding at a shocking pace, or the costs of these living standards must come down accordingly in order to give American workers a chance to compete for jobs.

In Iraq And At Home, We Are A Nation At War

Rachel Farris | Posted 11.15.2008 | Home


Rachel Farris

Our nation has been conditioned to become a firing squad of hate, absolving ourselves of our crimes overseas by conformity here at home. John McCain and his spotter Sarah Palin have set their sights on the bullseye, Barack Obama, and are blatantly firing-at-will.

Smart is the New Dumb, or Why Barack Obama is the President We Need Now

David Latt | Posted 11.14.2008 | Politics


David Latt

Conventional wisdom says that George W. Bush won in 2000 because he was easier to relate to than Al Gore. Better to have a President you can have a b...

Palin To Campaign In Once-Safe Indiana

Indianapolis Star | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics


Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican nominee for vice president, will hold a rally in the Indianapolis area Friday. Jennifer Hallowell, regional c...

Joe Biden's Tears Remembered

Steven Petrow | Posted 11.03.2009 | Living


Steven Petrow

Weeks after Joe Biden's election to congress, his wife and daughter would perish and I would write a note of condolence. Though the letter is long gone, his response back to me has been kept for 36 years.

Politics Most Stupid Move Becomes The Most Booed: Palin Curse Hits Philly

Steve Young | Posted 11.12.2008 | Media


Steve Young

SEE/HEAR UNCAMOUFLAGED BOOING LINKED BELOW Philadelphia Flyers owner and major Republican donor, Ed Snider piped in the loudest music he could, but i...

McCain On Defense In Red States

Bloomberg | Joe Sobczyk and Edwin Chen | Posted 11.11.2008 | Politics


John McCain is circling the wagons. The Republican presidential candidate, with few prospects in Democratic-leaning states, is struggling to hold on ...

The John McCain "Please Take Me Back!" O-Tron

236.com | Posted 11.11.2008 | Politics


John McCain is having a rough week. Both the Hispanics and the working class whites are breaking up with him. They had promised him it would be foreve...

Obama Notes McCain's Effort To Temper GOP Anger

AP | CHARLES BABINGTON | Posted 11.11.2008 | Politics


PHILADELPHIA — His backers feeling increasingly confident, Democrat Barack Obama made a slight nod to his Republican rival on Saturday and asked...

Wagging the Dog With Fannie Mae: Republicans Explain the Financial Crisis With Racist Mythology

David Fiderer | Posted 11.09.2008 | Business


David Fiderer

Into a void of understanding, Republicans have sought to absolve themselves of blame with a racist mythology that has gone viral.

Going Beyond the Pale-in: (Character) Assassination

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 11.09.2008 | Politics


Robert S. McElvaine

When does character assassination cross the line and begin to encourage physical assassination?

Voters' Debate Reaction: Negative Campaigning Backfires

CNN | Ashley Broughton | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics


A moving graph at the bottom of the CNN screen during Tuesday night's presidential debate measured the reactions of uncommitted voters in the swing st...

It's Over

Bill George | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics


Bill George

Just as Hillary Clinton learned in the primaries, it is extremely difficult to compete simultaneously with Obama's unwavering strategy and his unrelenting organization on the ground.

Et Tu, Senator McCain?

Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics


Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.

What's most troubling about the McCain camp's desperate decision to attack on Sen. Obama is that they understand the nastiness, the pettiness, the just-plain-wrongness of what they're doing.

McCain's Kremlin Connections

Ari Berman | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics


Ari Berman

It seems especially relevant now to highlight McCain's questionable relationship with his embattled campaign manager, Rick Davis, and Davis' controversial clients.

Obama's "Liberal Record" In Line With Most Americans' Views

Bob Geiger | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics


Bob Geiger

If they're going to resort to their tired old tactic of yelling "liberal, liberal, liberal," let's at least let them know that they're including the mainstream of America under that umbrella.

McCain Is Still Taking Weekends Off

Politico | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics


Just a month out from election day, neither Barack Obama nor John McCain has undertaken the sort of grinding public schedule that until now had been t...