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Geoffrey Dunn: F-Bomb Confidential: Meghan McCain, Sarah Palin and HBO's 'Game Change'

2011-04-06T20:34:57Z

Meghan McCain is concerned that quite a bit more than what appeared about her in Game Change will find its way into the HBO film. Where might they find such dirt? Ironically, in McCain's own book, Dirty Sexy Politics.

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Geoffrey Dunn: Palin Advisor Is a Former BP Lobbyist & Foreign Agent

2010-09-10T03:33:25Z

Palin rattles off a good game about Big Oil and lobbyists. Yet government documents reveal that a top aide of hers served as a lobbyist for BP Amoco from 1999-2000, receiving payments through his former lobbying firm the Mercury Group.

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Geoffrey Dunn: John McCain Still Pallin' Around With Lobbyists

2010-08-21T02:06:20Z

There is an air of both tragedy and farce as the Arizona Republican primary for the United States Senate comes to a conclusion this Tuesday. Incumbent John McCain has been forced into the sludge against an unworthy opponent, J.D. Hayworth, in what is likely to be the final campaign of his political career. He may have once branded himself a political reformer, but with John McCain, the democratic process has always come with a price attached.

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Geoffrey Dunn: McCain's Latest Palin Lie

2009-10-13T21:31:05Z

It's time for McCain to tell the truth about his campaign and, rather than blame his own failures on "the stock market crash," to accept responsibility for his lack of economic credibility and his selection of a running mate.

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William Bradley: The Last Clinton Melodrama? (And Other Sensationalist Game Change Gossip)

2010-01-14T11:41:08Z

Game Change is interesting, but there's not much in it that wasn't already known. It's not a strong analytical book.

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Geoffrey Dunn: Palin's Bob & Mark Show Shame

2009-11-04T20:12:29Z

Palin's mention of Alaska "personalities" Bob & Mark for her upcoming book tour conjures up a truly shameless moment from Palin's past.

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Geoffrey Dunn: Rick Davis and McCain's Failed Campaign Strategy

2008-10-21T01:05:17Z

October has not been a good month for Rick Davis, the notorious uber-lobbyist who's also managing John McCain's failed campaign for the American presi...

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Joseph A. Palermo: President Obama Opens Up Records, Shuts the Revolving Door

2009-01-22T23:09:59Z

By breaking the nexus between lobbyists and government departments, Obama is doing something that hasn't been done before. He has raised the ethical bar higher than any previous president.

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Monroe Price: Sarah Palin: the All-in-One Reality TV Show

2008-12-07T19:26:06Z

Palin is one-person reiteration of everything from "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" (early round dismissal?) up through and including "Survivor."

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Rick Davis Calls Palin's $150,000 Shopping Spree A "Failure Of Management"

2008-11-14T14:31:56Z

(CNN) -- Rick Davis, the campaign manager for former John McCain's White House bid came to Sarah Palin's defense in an upcoming interview with the Nat...

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Erik Ose: Ten Chumps Who Helped Elect Barack Obama

2008-11-14T17:26:18Z

With the post-election analysis season almost over, it's worth taking one final look at some of the characters who ensured President-elect Obama would make it to the White House.

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Jackson Williams: While Storm Clouds Gather, Obama Must Get Busier

2008-09-12T15:33:31Z

Wailing about retro Palin's loony views on global warming or creationism will earn nods of approval in the fur-lined traps of Georgetown's elite salons. It will not, however, grab victory on November 4th.

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Election Results: McCain Campaign Manager On The Five Must-Win States

2008-11-03T09:21:48Z

George Stephanopoulos writes this morning on McCain's must win states and his interview yesterday with McCain campaign manager Rick Davis. Go here to...

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McCain Camp: "We're Pretty Jazzed Up"

2008-10-31T10:57:34Z

On a Friday morning conference call with reporters, McCain campaign manager Rick Davis boasted that, in partnership with the RNC, he expects to have o...

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McCain Camp Pushes New ACORN Outrage

2008-10-30T13:55:31Z

McCain campaign manager Rick Davis held a conference call on Thursday to dish out some more press criticism and fan the flames of a new alleged ACORN-...

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John McQuaid: McCain's Narrative Problem

2008-10-27T16:59:22Z

His campaign seems based on one idea alone: because of who he is -- not what he has done as a senator, not what he wants to do as president, but who he is -- John McCain should be president.

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Mark Nickolas: What Political Malpractice Looks Like (The B Team That Ran The McCain Campaign Into The Ground)

2008-10-27T18:32:17Z

We'll have plenty of time to dissect this pig after November 4th, but I wanted to get a head start on some of the most egregious acts of political malpractice I have ever seen at this level of politics in my life.

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Rick Davis: Campaign Rethinking Playing The Rev. Wright Card

2008-10-20T14:14:27Z

John McCain's campaign manager says he is reconsidering using Barack Obama's relationship with Reverend Jeremiah Wright as a campaign issue during the...

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McCain Camp Manager: Colin Powell Not Equipped To Make Political Predictions

2008-10-20T08:47:38Z

When asked on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" program Monday for his reaction to Colin Powell's endorsement of Barack Obama, John McCain campaign manager Rick D...

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McCain Compares Obama Small Donor Issue To Ayers And ACORN

2008-10-20T12:22:51Z

On a Monday conference call with reporters, McCain campaign manager Rick Davis worked hard to elevate the issue of Barack Obama's undisclosed small do...

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Bill Scher: McCain Campaign Manager In '04: "Nothing Is More Discomforting Than a Smear Campaign"

2008-10-14T23:24:24Z

Rick Davis went on to urge the 2004 presidential nominees "to publicly order their supporters not to go there," as that was "[t]he only way to stop the expected mud-slinging."

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Gary Cohan: Conduct Unbecoming: John McCain's Dishonorable Endgame

2008-10-12T17:17:40Z

He has now earned the ignominious fate of a public "court martial" in polling places all across America on November 4th.

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McCain Not Mentioning The Market; We're Not "CNBC"

2008-10-10T14:25:09Z

The Politico reports:

McCain didn't talk about the stock market yesterday, and didn't put out a statement on it, while Obama did both, and McCain ca...

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William Bradley: Waiting For "Whitey"

2008-10-10T17:38:26Z

I've recently spent a lot of time talking with top Republicans, virtually all of whom think Obama has it won. One or two said, wistfully, "What about the Whitey tape, maybe that would change it?" Of course, there is no Whitey tape.

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McCain Camp Divided Over Negative Attacks

2008-10-09T23:19:28Z

Top McCain campaign officials are grappling with how far to go with negative attacks on Sen. Barack Obama in the final weeks of what is turning into a...

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