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Fifty-State Strategy Gains But The Old Swing States Still Rate

Daniel Nichanian | Posted 07.25.2008 | Home


Daniel Nichanian

Despite the seeming success so far of Obama's genuine national strategy, the fact is, states that were battlegrounds in 2004 have remained tight, ensuring that McCain remains highly competitive.

Sam Stein

McCain Campaign Running Obama-Castro Ad

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.24.2008 | Politics


The McCain campaign has a new web ad out placing Barack Obama, for the second time, side-by-side with a foreign dictator. This time, it's Fidel Castro...

New Polls: An Unexpected Uptick for McCain

Daniel Nichanian | Posted 07.23.2008 | Home


Daniel Nichanian

Yesterday's data delivers positives for McCain and reminds that, however much red states like North Carolina and Alaska may be shifting, Obama has a lot of ground to cover before November.

McCain Delegate Is Vocal Obama Admirer

Politico | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics


If you've read enough profiles of Barack Obama, chances are you're familiar with the name Kirk Dillard. An accomplished and articulate legislator who ...

McCain: Obama Socialist? "I Don't Know"

Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics


In an interview with the Kansas City Star, John McCain says Barack Obama was labeled as having the "most extreme" record in the Senate. "Extreme? You...

McCain Calls Obama Health Care Plan 'HillaryCare'

CNN | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics


John McCain devoted a substantial chunk of his town hall meeting Thursday to drawing contrasts with Barack Obama on health care policy, stressing his ...

Bipartisan Partisanship -- Not An Oxymoron

Lanny Davis | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics


Lanny Davis

McCain and Obama can can get our politics back into the fact-driven solutions business, listening to ideas from liberals and conservatives to pick among them based on what works, not what is ideologically correct.

Sam Stein

McCain Takes Page From Clinton: Attacks Obama On Committee Chairmanship

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics


Here's more evidence that John McCain is looking to the primary campaign of Hillary Clinton as a template for his own race against Barack Obama. On ...

Civil Campaign? McCain Camp Says Obama Wants To Lose In Iraq

Talking Points Memo | Posted 07.14.2008 | Politics


The McCain campaign, which has said it doesn't question Obama's patriotism, is now doing something awfully similar: Claiming that Barack Obama and the...

Poll: Obama Beating McCain In Arizona

Washington Independent | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics


In a sign of continued weakness in his home state, an online poll shows Sen. John McCain trailing Sen. Barack Obama by 3-percentage points in Arizona....

Sam Stein

McCain's New Ad: "Beautiful" Words Won't Improve Your Life

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics


The McCain campaign is out with a new, minute long TV ad that is at once biographical and a not-too-subtle jab at Barack Obama. Starting with his mil...

Hands Off Obama

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 07.07.2008 | Politics


Jayne Lyn Stahl

If the barbs against the Obama keep up at a steady rate, McCain won't even need a strategy -- all he'll need to do is keep his mouth shut. Leave the swift-booting of Obama to the Repugs.

The McCain Strategy: It's the Perception of the Economy, (Stupid)

Hilary Rosen | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics


Hilary Rosen

Rick Davis, former McCain campaign manager, told me that with the conventions taking place so late in the summer, voters' thinking about the election would be greatly affected by their summer experience.

Sam Stein

For McCain A Candidate's Military Pedigree Hasn't Always Mattered

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics


For the third straight day, Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign has raised a ruckus over comments suggesting that his military service may not, i...

John McCain Should Probably Stop Calling Barack Obama "Dr. No"

Chris Kelly | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics


Chris Kelly

Saying "Dr. No" over and over and over and over is either a brilliant subliminal appeal to racists who enjoy mid-century genre fiction or it's a really, really tone deaf thing to call a man with a mixed-race background.

Obama Opting Out of Public Financing

Daniel Nichanian | Posted 06.19.2008 | Home


Daniel Nichanian

With this bold move, Obama is going straight past McCain to the source of real GOP election funding, the RNC, which will be spending massively to defeat the Democratic nominee in the fall.

Sam Stein

McCain's Take On Bin Laden, Habeas Corpus Is Delusional, Legal Scholar Says

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics


Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign, led by new attack dog Rudy Giuliani, alleged on Wednesday that Barack Obama lacked the chops to lead the cou...

Dueling Campaigns: Iraq Is Isn't Is Like South Korea. We Won't Will Won't Be Home For 100 Years. We Are Aren't Ragging On McCain's Age.

M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 06.11.2008 | Home


M.S. Bellows, Jr.

Dueling candidate communiques today on McCain's non-timetable for withdrawing troops from Iraq raised important questions: Does "confused" mean "old"? And just how politically confused is Joe Lieberman?

McCain Strategy Unveiled: Another New Map

Daniel Nichanian | Posted 06.10.2008 | Home


Daniel Nichanian

The plan is not as innovative as its designers suggest. Obama will be played up as beyond the mainstream and California as seriously in play, both ideas unlikely to rattle the Obama campaign.

TV Ads And Town Halls: McCain Campaign Revs Up

Daniel Nichanian | Posted 06.09.2008 | Home


Daniel Nichanian

McCain has begun running general election ads in an impressive list of swing states, providing in effect a battle map of states the GOP believes are in play. Missouri and Michigan near the top of the list.

McCain's Churlish, Semi-Snarky, Out-Of-Place Speech

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 06.04.2008 | Media


McCain took the opportunity last night to make a speech that was not only bland and boring, but marked by a weird snarkiness that seemed extremely out of place on a night of historic firsts.

The Lime Green Monster: McCain's Speech Widely Panned

The Huffington Post | Posted 06.03.2008 | Politics


It may be a superficial quip with Senator McCain's speech tonight, but as Marc Ambinder of the Atlantic noted, in presidential politics, "theatrics ma...

Sam Stein

McCain Camp: Obama Too Liberal...And He Sides With Bush

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.03.2008 | Politics


Preempting Barack Obama's remarks tonight, the McCain campaign sent out a statement highlighting the fact that the Illinois Democrat had, on many occa...

Sam Stein

McCain Tries Aggressively To Distance Himself From Bush In Speech Tonight

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.03.2008 | Politics


***Scroll Down For Video*** The frame of John McCain being an extension of the Bush presidency is apparently getting under the Senator's skin. In hi...

Sam Stein

McCain's Top Strategist Lobbied For Iran-Linked Firm

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.02.2008 | Politics


In the summer of 2005, John McCain's chief strategist Charlie Black, working for his firm Black, Kelly, Scruggs & Healey, was paid $60,000 to lobby th...


 

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