John McCain has pledged that, if elected president, he will end the revolving door between the White House and lobbying shops. But his actions haven't...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics
The clean-election group Campaign Money Watch announced just now that a new ad going after McCain for his ties to the gambling industry, will be airin...
Glenn Hurowitz | Posted 11.25.2008 | Politics
Obama's got to ask himself as he considers Daschle for Chief of Staff -- does he want change and success or hypocrisy, capitulation and defeat?
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics
On Wednesday, John McCain's campaign used Jesse Jackon's latest politically ill-advised remarks to hammer Barack Obama as insensitive or worse to the ...
Washington Post | Posted 11.03.2008 | Politics
When mortgage giant Freddie Mac feared several years ago that Sen. John McCain was too outspoken on the issue of executive pay, it pinpointed a lobbyi...
Newsweek | Posted 10.29.2008 | Politics
Few advisers in John McCain's inner circle inspire more loyalty from him than campaign manager Rick Davis. McCain and his wife, Cindy, credit the shre...
New York Times | JO BECKER and DON VAN NATTA Jr. | Posted 10.28.2008 | Politics
Senator John McCain was on a roll. In a room reserved for high-stakes gamblers at the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut, he tossed $100 chips arou...
Newsweek | Posted 10.26.2008 | Politics
Rick Davis, John McCain's campaign manager, has remained the treasurer and a corporate director of his lobbying firm this year, despite repeated stat...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.24.2008 | Politics
Early on Tuesday, Barack Obama's presidential campaign launched an ad in Michigan pointing out that, despite assurances that he only purchased domesti...
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 10.17.2008 | Politics
A new MoveOn ad posits who John McCain is really talking about when he says "my friends" -- his favorite lobbyists. Watch: "With the economy on th...
Daily Kos | Posted 10.16.2008 | Politics
"But now suddenly, John McCain says he is about change, too. He even started using some of my lines. Suddenly he says he wants 'to turn the page.' He ...
The Huffington Post | Posted 10.15.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama has a second ad out targeting John McCain's habit of hiring lobbyists. This spot focuses on Bill Timmons, the man McCain tapped to plan h...
Talking Points Memo | Posted 10.13.2008 | Politics
Here's something that could complicate the McCain-Palin reform message a bit: It turns out that McCain's national finance co-chair, Wayne Berman, is a...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.13.2008 | Politics
In an ad that hasn't officially been released to reporters, the Obama campaign goes hard after John McCain for employing big-time lobbyists in high ra...
The Nation | Posted 10.12.2008 | Politics
John McCain has been hammering rival Barack Obama for being little more than a vapid "celebrity" and "elitist." But The Nation has obtained a photo re...
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.
Washington Independent | Posted 10.11.2008 | Politics
At 12:01 a.m. Pacific time Saturday, 27,000 Boeing Co. machinists, protesting a lack of job security, went on strike. A lengthy walkout would halt the...
Mother Jones | Posted 10.11.2008 | Politics
John McCain railed against Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on the campaign trail today, saying that the CEOs that led the lenders to ruin "deserve nothing"...
USA Today | Posted 09.18.2008 | Politics
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain told USA TODAY on Sunday that he has no problem with his top foreign policy adviser Randy Sche...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.15.2008 | Politics
*** Updated Below *** The Obama campaign promised, late last week, that they would keep attacking John McCain and his campaign manager for their ties...
The Huffington Post | Posted 09.15.2008 | Politics
John McCain helped end the career of Christian Coalition leader Ralph Reed with a 2006 Senate investigation of Reed's extensive work with disgraced lo...
Posted 09.10.2008 | Politics
Last week, Barack Obama's campaign flagged a potential conflict of interest in John McCain's response to the conflict between Russia and Georgia: McCa...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.08.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama's presidential campaign claimed that the general election had reached a critical turning point this past week after it was revealed that ...
ABC News | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics
Last night, Rick Davis, the campaign manager for Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., gave CBS News' Katie Couric a confusing answer to a question about lobbyis...
NY Times | McCain Think Tank Gave Lobbyists More Access | Posted 08.05.2008 | Politics
As Senator John McCain waited to speak at the annual awards dinner of the International Republican Institute, a democracy-building group he has led fo...
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics