"Dear Florida": Five Ways McCain/Palin Will Make Things Worse For Older Americans
While McCain now lags in all age groups, he retains his strongest support among voters 65 and older.
While McCain now lags in all age groups, he retains his strongest support among voters 65 and older.
Lois Whitmore | Posted 10.31.2008 | Home
There seems to be a lack of perceived connection for some of these voters between their lived experience and the candidates' positions and the party's practices. Voting choices seem to be more like chaos theory than enlightened self-interest.
Stephen Herrington | Posted 10.27.2008 | Home
The conventional wisdom is that higher taxes hurt the economy. There is no actual evidence of that. In fact if you plot tax rates against GDP, there is no observable correlation.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.21.2008 | Politics
With the financial world in an unpredictable crisis, the political debate has shifted sharply to the efficacy of turning government programs over to t...
Talking Points Memo | Posted 09.14.2008 | Politics
In a move that signals a major new effort to woo elderly voters to Obama, the AFL-CIO is dropping a scorching new mailer in battleground states hammer...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.11.2008 | Politics
Surrogacy on behalf of a presidential candidate can, on occasion, force a politician to deride his own past positions. Such was the case Sunday mornin...
Politico | Posted 08.09.2008 | Politics
While campaigns typically snow reporters with white papers and policy minutiae, many of the domestic policy plans of John McCain have been notably sho...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.04.2008 | Politics
Coming off of a week in which he made several notable gaffes and was overshadowed by his rival's trip overseas, Sen. John McCain was undoubtedly hopin...
AP | DAVID A. LIEB | Posted 07.25.2008 | Politics
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Although Republican presidential candidate John McCain has called Social Security "a disgrace," he still cashes his own retir...
LA Times | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics
It was a spectacular flop: a president making dozens of fruitless trips around the country to build support for a plan his own party's leadership refu...
Mark Weisbrot | Posted 07.19.2008 | Politics
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.
Gerald McEntee | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics
McCain and Bush are like two peas in a pod. They're the same on the economy. They're the same on Iraq. And they're the same on Social Security.
Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics
On Monday, during a town hall in Denver, John McCain proposed a radical "fix" for the way Social Security is funded. Responding to a questioner who cl...
The Huffington Post | Posted 06.21.2008 | Politics
John McCain tried to deny past comments on Social Security reform yesterday, a move which has exposed him to criticism from his rival as well as obscu...
Think Progress | Posted 04.26.2008 | Politics
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...
RJ Eskow | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics