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Pro-McCain Group Dumping 28 Million Terror Scare DVDs in Swing States

Erik Ose | Posted 10.13.2008 | Politics

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Funding is coming from a New York-based group called the Clarion Fund, a supposed 501 c(3) non-profit that this week featured an article supporting John McCain on its website.

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With New Ads, Obama Pushes Back Against Ugly McCain Campaign

Beverly Davis | Posted 10.13.2008 | Home

"First of all politics is a tough business," says McCain. "Second of all, I think the tone of this whole campaign would've been very different if Sen. Obama had accepted my request for us to appear at town hall meetings."

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Deconstructing The Big Mac Attack: 12 Key Things To Understand

William Bradley | Posted 10.11.2008 | Media

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Here's what Team McCain is doing, with its advertising and overall messaging, to give the veteran senator a pretty good chance of winning the White House.

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Mad Over Sarah Palin? Time To Get Busy for Obama.

Erik Ose | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics

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How can progressives channel our outrage over the prospect of an unqualified, dangerously far-right wing pitbull with lipstick like Sarah Palin a heartbeat away from the presidency?

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Que Sera, Sarah

William Bradley | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics

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What McCain's speech did not have was the substance to back up the centrist reformism he needs to try to upset Obama.

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The View From Wasilla - God Help Us if Sarah Palin is Elected

Erik Ose | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics

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I got a fascinating e-mail from a Wasilla, Alaska resident who was witness to Sarah Palin's tenure as mayor. Except for a New York Times article this...

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Prebuttal: McCain's Reform Credentials Have Turned to Sand

David Donnelly | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics

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The John McCain who fought for campaign finance reform in the past is not the same John McCain speaking tonight. Here's what he'll claim, and what the truth really is.

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Obama Counter-Programs The RNC, And Hurricanes Sarah And Gustav

William Bradley | Posted 10.04.2008 | Media

What a bizarre week for Obama to mount a counter-programming effort. He has the RNC and Hurricanes Gustav and Sarah. It's going pretty well for him -- not that he has all that much to do with it.

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Is John McCain Mentally Fit To Be President?

Erik Ose | Posted 09.30.2008 | Politics

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In a breathtakingly puzzling move, John McCain showed terrible judgment by selecting first term Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to be his running mate. ...

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Michelle and Jill: The Buddy Flick We Need

Shireen Mitchell and Adele M. Stan | Posted 09.29.2008 | Style

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Displaying what appears to be real affection between them, Michelle Obama and Jill Biden together present a portrait of what real unity could look like.

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13 Reasons Why It's, Ah, Palin

William Bradley | Posted 09.29.2008 | Politics

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John McCain doesn't like that he's lost the change mantle to Barack Obama. We shouldn't expect to see too much more from Team McCain about how inexperienced Senator Obama is.

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I'm Just Sayin': Choice of Sarah Palin is an Insult to Women Voters

Phil Trounstine | Posted 09.29.2008 | Politics

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As Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida said: "I know Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin is no Hillary Clinton."

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Obama-Biden Trumps McCain-Rove

Erik Ose | Posted 09.28.2008 | Politics

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Biden's acceptance speech proved what the citizens of Delaware have known for a long time: Biden is a regular Joe with all-American family values who also happens to be a Senator.

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Obama Needs Bill Clinton

William Bradley | Posted 09.28.2008 | Politics

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I'm told by Clinton associates that the former president does not have any foreign travel planned between now and the election. I think that, if Obama is to win, Clinton needs to play a very crucial role.

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Distract And Detract: McCain Counter-Programs The DNC, And Himself

William Bradley | Posted 09.26.2008 | Media

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Free from the no doubt horrifying responsibility to run positive TV ads during the Olympics, the campaign is back to its all-attack ways.

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"New Cold War" Leaves Voters Cold But Shows Obama's Need

William Bradley | Posted 09.22.2008 | Politics

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It turns out that McCain's hot rhetoric in the wake of the Russia-Georgia War isn't catching on. But McCain is still seen as the national security/geopolitics maven.

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Dark Knight America

William Bradley | Posted 09.20.2008 | Media

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The Dark Knight ends up in much the same place we finds ourselves today. Bereft of a clearcut hero. Having narrowly survived a assault against our essential selves. And wondering what comes next.

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I'm Just Sayin': Biden's Ancient Word Theft No Longer an Issue

Phil Trounstine | Posted 09.20.2008 | Politics

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As the reporter who first revealed Biden's filching of Robert F. Kennedy's words, I hereby declare that the statute of limitations on those transgressions has expired.

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Memo to Netroots: Stop Tearing Down Obama's VP Shortlist

Erik Ose | Posted 09.19.2008 | Politics

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If the left is ever going to get serious about winning elections, we need to stop insisting on 100% ideological purity from our candidates. News flash: politics is about assembling winning coalitions.

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New Olympics Ad Uplift from Obama and McCain, Attacks Everywhere Else

William Bradley | Posted 09.15.2008 | Media

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For the unprecedented Olympics ad buys, Obama started out positive and uplifting -- as befits the positive uplift of the Olympics media environment. McCain went in, well, a different direction.

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Thank You, John Edwards

Erik Ose | Posted 09.13.2008 | Politics

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Because Edwards is out of office, not on the ballot, and now out of the running for a convention speech, VP slot or cabinet post, the scandal will have little effect on Democrats' chances this fall.

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8 Key Things To Know, and One Big Question, About Russia v. Georgia

William Bradley | Posted 09.13.2008 | Politics

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As a result of its military being smashed, Georgia had to withdraw its forces, some 2000 troops in all, from Iraq, leaving the US even further holding the bag there.

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McCain's Olympic Attack Ad and Other TV ADD War Oddities

William Bradley | Posted 09.11.2008 | Media

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The last week of TV ad wars were really the ADD wars, with both McCain and Obama launching and swapping out TV ads so quickly they couldn't possibly have had any impact in actual paid airings.

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I'm Disappointed in John Edwards

Erik Ose | Posted 09.08.2008 | Politics

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In retrospect, Edwards' entire political career was a flash in the pan, a triumph of hype over substance, and a big let-down for any progressives who were fooled into thinking Edwards was the second coming of FDR.

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Reading The Pictures: The McCain Buffalo Chip (Un-)Cover-Up

Michael Shaw | Posted 08.13.2008 | Media

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Only the wildly hypocritical McCain could have escaped any blowback from the debauchery and female exploitation in Sturgis. And, as an act of collusion, the visual media totally blinked.