Senator Mccain

McCain's stubbornness on Iraq, despite Bush's backpedaling and the expressed will of the Iraqi prime minister, suggests how he would approach the crumbling economy. He'll do nothing.

Despite the seeming success so far of Obama's genuine national strategy, the fact is, states that were battlegrounds in 2004 have remained tight, ensuring that McCain remains highly competitive.

We drove around the West Bank searching for Obama supporters, but even at venues with names in English, such as the Stars & Bucks cafe or Supermarket Baghdad, there were no Gobama banners to be seen.

Intrigued by David Corn's suspicion that the McCain campaign was screening reporters, we decided to dig into our archive of calls and see if there was in fact a pattern of cherry-picking favoritism.

"A bleak mood and frustration was on display among McCain's advisers, who have taken to referring to Obama sarcastically as "The One." "'The One' went to Europe, and homage must be paid."

In the New York Post, political consultant Dick Morris cries that Obama wants to provide health insurance to undocumented immigrants as part of his plan to cover the 47 million uninsured Americans.

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The ground continues to shift to Obama in deep red territory. Montana, Nebraska and the Dakotas battleground states? Believe it. Obama is on air and on the ground, and for now he is running unopposed.

Both candidates have to overcome hesitancy among Latinos, Obama because of his race and the bitter primary battle; McCain because of his backtracking on immigration reform.

The John McCain town hall meeting is a fraud. The town halls are not about local issues. They're not conversational. They don't feature a lot of straight talk. They're sad and they're an opportunity lost.

"More and more, I'm starting to feel that McCain is just saying something, not thinking, he's just saying something that he feels like he has to say [as a candidate] or that people want to hear. "

Jesse Jackson may be mad at Obama for "talking down to black folks" -- but at least Obama never referred to blacks as "them" or demeaningly reminded his audience that blacks are "God's children too."

McCain's clean coal energy plan is popular in Pennsylvania and Western Virginia, where he technology is being developed. But Pittsburgh, the main city here, is a must win for Obama in the fall.

Obama has a genuine brand logo. Even going back 20 years, I can't recall a single other instance where you could remove the candidate's face and name and still know who the logo represented.

Obama and the Democrats are beginning again to demonstrate clumsiness in the face of GOP attacks. Obama appears to be admitting to shifting positions on Iraq but he hasn't shifted positions.

McCain says, "I don't have to tell you, old comrades, I hate war." Three generations of veterans in the hall applaud. For all the electrifying moments at Obama rallies, there has never been one quite like this.

Despite rumblings that Libertarian Party presidential candidate Bob Barr could Ralph Nader Republicans this November, some political observers are say...

The polling evidence strongly suggests that McCain has to actually convince registered Democrats to vote for him in order to win. He is, or was, perhaps the only GOPer who might succeed at such an effort.

"McCain doesn't use a computer. I mean, I would try explaining email, Facebook, Twitter -- massive social movements -- to your grandmother and ask her to apply that to governing and see if that would work for you."

Increased oil production will not result in lower prices at the pump until oil company loopholes are closed and the industry is forced to pay windfall-profits taxes to discourage price gouging.

Over the last year, The real McCain has disappeared. We've heard nothing real from him. What we hear instead are the words predatory lobbyists are putting into his mouth.

Expansion of the media space is a good thing, but filtering and forwarding systems must keep pace. The better we are at finding the good stuff, the easier it is to relax and accept that anyone can be a media producer.

Increasingly, the challenges facing suburbs are the same ones facing cities. The politics that used to divide metro areas have collapsed. Indeed, in this election, suburban voters are up for grabs.