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Obama Ad Calls Out McCain For Employing Lobbyists

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.13.2008 | Politics

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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...

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Obama Camp: Saving Counterpunch For After 9/11

Washington Post | Posted 10.12.2008 | Politics

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Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign launched a broadside against Sen. Barack Obama yesterday, accusing him of a sexist smear, comparing his campa...

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FactCheck.org To McCain Camp: Stop Distorting Our Work

Factcheck.org | Posted 10.11.2008 | Politics

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A McCain-Palin ad has FactCheck.org calling Obama's attacks on Palin "absolutely false" and "misleading." That's what we said, but it wasn't about Oba...

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Sam Stein

Obama Camp Starts Going After McCain's Sexism Record

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.11.2008 | Politics

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For most of Wednesday, surrogates to Barack Obama counteracted the contrived charge that the Senator had demeaned Sarah Palin in his totally unrelated...

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Sam Stein

No Flag Pin For McCain

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics

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These topics are trivial in the long run. And Democrats would be hard pressed to make an issue out of this when they've been bemoaning the use of it a...

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Polls: Obama Wins Post-Convention Bounce

Daniel Nichanian | Posted 10.03.2008 | Home

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Daniel Nichanian

The Palin announcement was intended to steal the spotlight from the Democrats and blunt whatever bounce Obama was hoping to generate in Denver. According to a rash of poll this weekend, however, it was not to be.

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Fema

Buddy Winston | Posted 10.02.2008 | Politics

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Buddy Winston

Coincidence? ...

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John McCain's Dick Move

Greg Saunders | Posted 09.28.2008 | Home

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Greg Saunders

I don't know if the John McCain we've been seeing lately is the real McCain or "Candidate McCain," but either way, John McCain is turning out to be a real jerk.

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WATCH: McCain & My Mom

Lee Stranahan | Posted 09.27.2008 | Politics

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Lee Stranahan

Some people say this is unfair... cross posted at Stranahan.com...

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Democrats Seek To Reinvent Themselves In The New West

Kelly Nuxoll | Posted 09.23.2008 | Home

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Kelly Nuxoll

Among the eco-friendly buildings, bikes and Obama shirts, one could forget McCain is close in the polls and the war in Iraq rages on. In Denver, the sun is shining and the streets look clean, as if last night had been a gulley-washer instead of only a few drops of rain in the desert.

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Biden And Our Twenty-First Century Election

Jennifer Donahue | Posted 09.23.2008 | Home

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Jennifer Donahue

Obama has decided to go for more than a basket of states that are too close to call two months out. This has nothing to do with battleground states, as evidenced by the size of Biden's Delaware. This is about scope and ideas.

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Obama Simply Must Pick A Man (4-Star General) Or A Woman (Hillary Clinton)

John Lumea | Posted 09.22.2008 | Home

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John Lumea

In fact, it's a hopeful sign that Obama will likely choose a generalist -- Richardson or Biden -- and not a general, and, if a woman, not the one who called him "irresponsible" and "naïve" and set up the GOP for the general election.

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Sam Stein

Fineman: McCain Is Trivializing His POW Past

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.21.2008 | Politics

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Once a remarkable and respected aspect of his biography, John McCain stands on the brink of "trivializing" his past as a prisoner of war, which has be...

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Sam Stein

In A Bind, GOP Throws Kitchen Sink At Obama

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.21.2008 | Politics

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Prompted, it seems, by concerns over John McCain's foot-in-the-mouth admission that he did not know the number of houses he owned, aides to the Senato...

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Yo Obama/Axelrod/Plouffe: Here's Some Good Advice on How to Kick Some Butt and Shape a Winning Narrative

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 09.19.2008 | Politics

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Miles Mogulescu

If Obama can both reconnect his inspirational personal story to the American dream and create a counter-narrative of McCain selling his soul to the Rovian devil, he can take back control of the campaign narrative.

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Sam Stein

Obama To McCain: Dignify Your Campaign

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.19.2008 | Politics

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There was a thread of stern if not defensive outrage in Barack Obama's address at the Veterans of Foreign Wars on Tuesday. The Illinois Democrat did n...

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Reading The Pictures: Looking Into McCain's And Obama's Soles

Michael Shaw | Posted 09.19.2008 | Media

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Michael Shaw

2008-08-19-mccain_plane_ferragamo.jpgJust like Cheney wearing those beat up loafers on a diplomatic trip to the Middle East, the focus here is not fashion -- it's character.

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Sam Stein

When "Losing One's Bearings" Is An Appropriate Campaign Attack

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.18.2008 | Politics

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Back in March, the McCain campaign was apoplectic after Barack Obama, responding to claims that he had been endorsed by Hamas, accused the Senator of ...

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Sam Stein

Obama: You'd Think This Would Be Easy

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.18.2008 | Politics

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Barack Obama implicitly acknowledged on Monday that common sense suggests he should be doing better in his campaign for the president. "We've got wo...

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Sam Stein

McCain Critics Continue To Attack His Wealth

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.15.2008 | Politics

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The drawback of John McCain's attack on Barack Obama's "elitism": it makes his own wealth fair game. For the second time in as many days, critics of...

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Sam Stein

Bush, Iraq, Energy, Osama: McCain/Obama Speech War

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.13.2008 | Politics

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In presidential campaigns, words matter. With Barack Obama belittled as an empty-suit orator and John McCain stifled by rhetorical blunders, the influ...

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Sam Stein

Obama: McCain's Not Running A Campaign To Be Proud Of

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.13.2008 | Politics

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Barack Obama accused John McCain on Tuesday of running a campaign that the presumptive Republican nominee himself couldn't take pride in. Speaking at...

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Sam Stein

Obama Continues His Energy, Anti-McCain Offensive

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.13.2008 | Politics

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Coming off a week in which he was compared to Britney Spears and Paris Hilton and saw his standing in the polls drop, Democrats' chief concern when as...

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John McCain: Citizen of the US?

Gautam Dutta | Posted 08.10.2008 | Politics

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Gautam Dutta

The Constitution must be amended so that all naturalized citizens (including McCain) can also seek the White House.

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Sam Stein

Barack Hits Back: Ad Says McCain Taking Low Road

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics

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Responding to a harsh personal attack from John McCain, Barack Obama released a television ad late Wednesday evening accusing the the Arizona Republic...

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