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Why Obama Has Pulled Ahead on the Economic Issues

Mark Weisbrot | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics

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Mark Weisbrot

Senator Barack Obama's campaign for the White House pulled ahead of his opponent, Senator John McCain, as soon as the current financial crisis hit the...

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Sam Stein

New McCain Ad: We Are All Joe The Plumber

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.22.2008 | Politics

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John McCain is going all in on the Joe-the-plumber meme with a television ad this morning that showcases other small business owners -- all claiming t...

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McCain Camp Flips Again: New Economic Proposals Tomorrow

Talking Points Memo | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics

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Despite a top surrogate's suggestion over the weekend that McCain would be unveiling new economic proposals, we learned this morning that in fact John...

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McCain Not Mentioning The Market; We're Not "CNBC"

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 11.10.2008 | Politics

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The Politico reports: McCain didn't talk about the stock market yesterday, and didn't put out a statement on it, while Obama did both, and McCain ca...

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McCain's Bailout Vote Crucial, Party Leaders Say

ABC News | Posted 10.25.2008 | Politics

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If Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain doesn't vote for the Bush administration's $700 billion economic bailout plan, some Republican a...

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Sam Stein

Biden: McCain's Economic Philosophy As Broke As Lehman Brothers

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.24.2008 | Politics

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Today vice presidential candidate Joseph Biden decried the McCain campaign for running a "successful smear campaign" against Barack Obama, and ridicul...

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Biden: McCain Helped Cripple Labor Movement

AP | BOB LEWIS | Posted 10.22.2008 | Politics

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CASTLEWOOD, Va. — Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden said Saturday that Republican John McCain has helped President Bush destroy r...

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WSJ Editorial Board Hits McCain For Cox Threat: "Deeply Unfair ... Un-Presidential"

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 10.20.2008 | Politics

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The conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board finds John McCain's sudden economic policy shifts less than inspiring: John McCain has made it ...

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Sam Stein

Senate Dem Raises Keating Five, Rips McCain On Economy, Palin

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.18.2008 | Politics

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One of the Senate's most progressive members ripped John McCain on Tuesday for offering a phony populist self-portrayal in the wake of the current cri...

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Sam Stein

Reid, Dems Go For McCain's Jugular

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.17.2008 | Politics

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Democrats, going after John McCain and the GOP jugular, are launching a coordinated attack over the economy, painting the current administration as th...

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Greenspan: American Can't Afford McCain's Tax Plan

Bloomberg | Posted 10.14.2008 | Politics

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Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said the country can't afford $3.3 trillion of tax cuts proposed by Republican presidential nominee Joh...

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Sam Stein

Obama Tears Into McCain For Houses Remark

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.21.2008 | Politics

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Barack Obama lashed into John McCain during a campaign stop in Virginia on Thursday, ridiculing the presumptive Republican nominee for being painfully...

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Sam Stein

Obama Ad: McCain's War Policy An Economic Disaster

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.13.2008 | Politics

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The Obama campaign released a new attack ad on Wednesday that -- as the Senator has tried to do during the debate over the surge -- ties economic trou...

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Sam Stein

Leaked McCain Memo: Paint Obama As A "Job Killing Machine"

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.07.2008 | Politics

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John McCain was widely ridiculed several weeks ago for fielding reporter's questions in the cheese aisle of a grocery store. But the location of the i...

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Seth Colter Walls

McCain To Propose An "Economic Surge" For America

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 09.06.2008 | Politics

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John McCain has famously admitted to a "lack of knowledge" about economics. So when he talks about the economy later today in Ohio, it appears he will...

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McCain's Head Games on Taxes

Ari Melber | Posted 07.30.2008 | Politics

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Ari Melber

Phil Gramm was not "off message." McCain's economic platform rests on the premise that the nation's economic challenges are minor and primarily psychological.

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McCain's "Knowledge Gap": It's An Issue

Mark Weisbrot | Posted 07.19.2008 | Politics

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Mark Weisbrot

McCain's gaffe on Social Security indicates that he is not any better informed on major domestic policy issues than he is on foreign policy.

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Nico Pitney and Sam Stein

McCain's List Of 300 Economists Filled With Skeptics

HuffingtonPost.com | Nico Pitney and Sam Stein | Posted 07.19.2008 | Politics

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Three times in the past two days, Sen. John McCain has proclaimed that 300 economists have enthusiastically endorsed his "Jobs for America" economic p...

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Jason Linkins

New York Times On McCain Economics: No You Can't

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics

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John McCain and his shadow army of "Nobel laureate economists" may be of the belief that the GOP nominee's economic plans - which the nominee himself ...

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McCain Denies Saying He Doesn't Know Much About Economics

Think Progress | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics

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This week, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) is traveling through Colombia, making a push for a free-trade agreement. In an interview with ABC this morning from...

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Why McCain's "Drill Here, Drill Now" Proposal Fails the Supply/Demand Reality Check

David Fiderer | Posted 08.21.2008 | Business

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David Fiderer

McCain's rhetoric on global oil, and the mainstream media narrative, seems stuck in the mid-1980s, when the U.S. produced as much oil as Iran, Iraq, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia combined.

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McCain's EBay Model For Jobs Finds Few Buyers Among Economists

Bloomberg | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics

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John McCain's model for ginning up the economy isn't Keynesian or Milton Friedmanite. It's EBay Inc. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee ...

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Sam Stein

Axelrod Exclusive: Obama Strategist Rips McCain, Defends Himself Against Lobbying Charges

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.06.2008 | Politics

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Barack Obama's chief strategist leveled the campaign's harshest counterattack yet over John McCain's recent rhetoric on national security issues, and ...

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Seth Colter Walls

Latest McCain Economic Proposal Seen As Incoherent

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 05.29.2008 | Politics

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In 2007, Sen. John McCain blamed out-of-control GOP spending for the Democrats' takeover of the House of Representatives. "We came to power in 1994 to...

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John McCain Supports Private Accounts For Social Security

Think Progress | Posted 04.26.2008 | Politics

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On Bill Bennett's radio show yesterday, former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina -- who is currently a leading economic adviser to Sen. John McCain (R...

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