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"Dear Florida": Five Ways McCain/Palin Will Make Things Worse For Older Americans

RJ Eskow | Posted 10.20.2008 | Politics

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RJ Eskow

While McCain now lags in all age groups, he retains his strongest support among voters 65 and older.

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Let's Finally Deep-Six the Privatization of Social Security

Jeff Madrick | Posted 10.02.2008 | Business

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Jeff Madrick

Barack Obama has taken on the McCain privatization plan in ads in Florida. He should take them on nationwide. Forcing people to manage their own retirement accounts is irresponsible.

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Socially Conservative And "Income Challenged" Vermont Seniors Weigh The Candidates

Lois Whitmore | Posted 09.30.2008 | Home

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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.

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McCain's Social Security Plan Would Cut Benefits To People Who Already Paid For Them

Stephen Herrington | Posted 09.26.2008 | Home

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Stephen Herrington

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.

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Sam Stein

McCain Claimed "Privatization" Was Necessary For Social Security

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.20.2008 | Politics

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With the financial world in an unpredictable crisis, the political debate has shifted sharply to the efficacy of turning government programs over to t...

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Big Union Launches Populist Attack On McCain's Wealth

Talking Points Memo | Posted 08.14.2008 | Politics

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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...

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Sam Stein

As McCain Surrogate, Graham Calls His Own Social Security Idea "Dumb"

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.03.2008 | Politics

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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...

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McCain Social Security Plan A Total Blank

Politico | Posted 08.01.2008 | Politics

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While campaigns typically snow reporters with white papers and policy minutiae, many of the domestic policy plans of John McCain have been notably sho...

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Sam Stein

McCain Fumbles His "This Week" Appearance

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.27.2008 | Politics

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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...

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McCain Gets Social Security Benefits But Calls Current System A "Disgrace"

AP | DAVID A. LIEB | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Although Republican presidential candidate John McCain has called Social Security "a disgrace," he still cashes his own retir...

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Obama and McCain Coverage: "Nuts" or a "Disgrace"?

Eric Boehlert | Posted 07.16.2008 | Media

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Eric Boehlert

Rev. Jackson's comments that he wanted to cut off Obama's "nuts" was a huge event for the press. But when McCain said that Social Security is a "disgrace," his proclamation was mostly passed over as being irrelevant.

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Social Security Privatization: McCain's Achilles Heel?

LA Times | Posted 07.14.2008 | Politics

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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...

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

Mark Weisbrot | Posted 07.11.2008 | 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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McCain's Ignorance about Social Security Is the Real "Disgrace"

Gerald McEntee | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics

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Gerald McEntee

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.

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John McCain Thinks Social Security Is A "Disgrace"

Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics

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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...

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John McCain Denies Social Security Comments

The Huffington Post | Posted 06.13.2008 | Politics

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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...

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John McCain Supports Private Accounts For Social Security

Think Progress | Posted 04.18.2008 | 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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