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Behind Team McCain's Sudden Gambit

William Bradley | Posted 10.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Barack Obama, Presidential Campaign, George W. Bush, Financial Crisis, TV Advertising, Steve Schmidt, John McCain, Adam Mendelsohn, Politics News

This is an attempted reboot in a losing scenario. McCain has been all over the lot on the financial crisis. He is a staunch deregulationist, at a moment in history in which it is clear that that approach has failed.

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What Else Would President McCain Postpone in a Crisis?

Seth Grahame-Smith | Posted 10.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Politics, John McCain, Wall Street, Sarah Palin, Breaking Politics News, Financial Crisis, Steve Schmidt, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, John Mccain Suspend Debate, John Mccain Suspends Campaign, Obama McCain Debates, Mccain Debate, Politics News

Lincoln ran for office during the Civil War. Reagan ran at the height of the Cold War. Bush ran with two wars raging in Afghanistan and Iraq. But McCain can't run during a crisis on Wall Street?

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Rachel Sklar on The O'Reilly Factor: McCain's Feud With the New York Times

Huff TV | Posted 10.25.2008 | Media

Read More: New York Times, John McCain, Rick Davis Fannie Mae, Steve Schmidt, Bill O'Reilly, Sarah Palin, Media News

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Is the Gasbag Lying? Or is He Just Ignorant?

Jan Herman | Posted 10.25.2008 | Media

Read More: Liberal Media, Fannie Mae, John McCain, Freddie Mac, Steve Schmidt, Gasbag, Rick Davis, Media News

When that salary ended, Davis asked for, and received, a consultant fee from Freddie Mac that payed him $15,000 a month.

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Contessa Brewer Wins Latest Round Of "Stump Tucker Bounds"

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Contessa Brewer, John McCain, Tucker Bounds, Steve Schmidt, Barack Obama, Politics News

Another day, another opportunity for a teevee news anchor to play, and subsequently win, a round of Stump Tucker Bounds!

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Reality Is in the Tank for Obama

Dan Sweeney | Posted 10.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Robert Allbritton, John McCain, Frederick Ryan, Politico, New York Times, Brian Rogers, Steve Schmidt, Judith Miller, In the Tank, Barack Obama, Politics News

As a famous conservative pundit once opined, "Reality has a well-known liberal bias."

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Distract and Detract: Team McCain Follows Form In Crisis

William Bradley | Posted 10.23.2008 | Media

Read More: Rick Davis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Barack Obama, Presidential Campaign, Oil, Gold, Financial Crisis, Media, TV Advertising, Steve Schmidt, Global Markets, John McCain, John McCain Lies, John McCain Attack Ads, Attack Ads, Media News

In a political crisis, Team McCain moves to change the subject and stay away from what may be unfriendly issues and instead switches back to a negative focus on Obama's personality and image.

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Our Hobbesian Media Culture May Trump Obama's Big Issue Opportunity

William Bradley | Posted 10.20.2008 | Media

Read More: Financial Crisis, John McCain, TV Advertising, Steve Schmidt, Presidential Campaign, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Media News

The absence of clarity around Obama's policy on the present crisis presents opportunity in the Hobbesian media universe. Vagueness can be cast as anything. In this case, probably something bad.

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Journalists of America--Your Country Needs You Now!

Larry Gellman | Posted 10.19.2008 | Media

You remember journalists. They were the reporters and analysts who used to make sure that stories were true before they published or went on the air with them.

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McCain Camp Chief Used Sex Ed Smear Before

TNR | Posted 10.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mccain Steve Schmidt, Obama Sex Education, Obama Sex Ed Ad, Obama Sex Ed, Mccain Sex Ed Ad, Steve Schmidt, John McCain, Politics News

In my TNR profile of John McCain's then-recently installed chief of campaign operations Steve Schmidt, I briefly alluded to a lowly tactic the message...

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Deconstructing The Big Mac Attack: 12 Key Things To Understand

William Bradley | Posted 10.11.2008 | Media

Read More: Arnold Schwawrzenegger, John McCain, Presidential Campaign, George W. Bush, Positioning, Branding, Steve Schmidt, TV Advertising, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, John McCain Attack Ads, Media News

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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W&W: Joe vs Sarah the (Unlicensed) Barracuda? And Yes, Ted Got Arrested...

Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein | Posted 10.11.2008 | Media

Read More: Republican National Convention, Lipstick, St. Paul, Mccain, Rnc, Joe Biden, Ted Johnson, Obama, Barack Obama, Palin, Politics, Wilshire and Washington, Sarah Palin, Teresa Valdez Klein, Maegan Carberry, Steve Schmidt, Barracuda, Media News

So, um, lipstick? Yes, lipstick is the main story of the day; but why? Is it sexist? Is it a diversion? Is it just... lipstick?

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This Crazy Sex Ad is Obama's Dukakis Moment

John Neffinger | Posted 01.22.2009 | Home

Read More: Education, John McCain, Campaign Ads, Michael Dukakis, Debates, Steve Schmidt, Attack Ads, Barack Obama, Sex Education, Home News

Everyone who sees this ad can see how dirty it is. If Obama wants Americans to respect him, he should react with the kind of anger -- controlled, but still palpable -- anyone would feel if somebody did this to them.

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Who's Running for President, McCain or Palin?

Andy Ostroy | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Walmart, Bill Clinton, Karl Rove, John McCain, Bridge to Nowhere, Joe Lieberman, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Steve Schmidt, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Chris Matthews, Dick Cheney, Politics News

It's safe to say that Republicans are downright giddy over their Everymom.

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Team Obama's One Missing Ingredient: Killer Instinct

William Bradley | Posted 10.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, National Football League, San Francisco 49ers, Gary Hart, George W. Bush, Steve Schmidt, Barack Obama, Bill Walsh, Super Bowl, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jerry Rice, Joe Montana, Ronnie Lott, Politics News

I'm reminded of the strategies of the legendary coach of the 49ers, Bill Walsh -- analyze your opponent. Find a vulnerability. And attack that vulnerability. Ruthlessly and repeatedly.

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John McCain: The 25-Year Washington Insider Comically Running as the Washington Outsider

Andy Ostroy | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: John Murtha, Max Cleland, Karl Rove, John McCain, November Election, John Kerry, Joe Biden, Republicans, Steve Schmidt, Republican Convention, Democrats, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Politics News

f Washington's been a swamp since George W. Bush took office in 2000, then McCain's been wading in it with his thigh-high muck-boots.

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Let's Lay Off Sarah Palin

William Klein | Posted 10.06.2008 | Media

Read More: Karl Rove, Steve Schmidt, Republican Convention, Sarah Palin Reaction, Sarah Palin, George W. Bush, John McCain, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, Media News

Karl Rove and his disciples on the McCain campaign are leading us into a trap by making it so easy to focus our fire on Sarah Palin.

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Cat Got Your Tongue, James Dobson?

Mark Nickolas | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain Dobson, John McCain, John Mccain Log Cabin Republicans, Gay Rights, Log Cabin Republicans, James Dobson, Steve Schmidt, James Dobson John Mccain, Steve Schmidt Log Cabin Republicans, Politics News

Maybe I missed Dobson's press release condemning McCain's effort to court the Log Cabin Republicans. Either that or Dobson is every bit the Pharisee that we believe he is.

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Top McCain Strategist Meets With Gay Republicans

The Advocate | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, John Mccain Log Cabin Republicans, Gay Republicans, Mccain Gay Republicans, Log Cabin Republicans, Steve Schmidt Gay Republicans, John Mccain Gay Republicans, Mccain Log Cabin Republicans, Steve Schmidt, Steve Schmidt Log Cabin Republicans, Politics News

In what represents a marked shift from the Republican campaign rhetoric of 2004 - where some George W. Bush advisors stoked anti-gay sentiment in an a...

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The Incredible Lightness of Being Sarah Palin

Joe Cutbirth | Posted 10.05.2008 | Media

Read More: ABC News Now, Michelle Obama, Gov. Palin, John McCain, Joe Cutbirth, Swift Boat, 2008 Vice Presidential Debates, Pitbull in Lipstick, Mccain, Karl Rove and Sarah Palin, Obama-Biden, Joe Biden, Vice Presidential Nominees, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Mccain-Palin, Cutbirth, Pitbull, Biden and Palin, Palin, Hillary Clinton, 2008 GOP Convention, Clinton Women, Steve Schmidt, Palin and Obama, Media Bias, Palin and Executive Experience, Wingnuts, Incredible Lightness, Media News

Palin will throw mud with impunity, then in the tradition of Agnew, Dole and Quayle yell "double standard" and "bias reporting" when she is called on it.

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The GOP Defends Palin Like They Defended The Decision to Invade Iraq (Shudder)

Tina Dupuy | Posted 10.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Steve Schmidt, Peggy Noonan, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Mike Murphy MSNBC, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin Reaction, Politics News

The spokespeople have been synchronized. And the tactic is instead of answering questions -- ask them. And when you ask them -- throw in an 'implication bomb.'

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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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Palin Uncorked! Or, How to Manage Expectations Tonight

Joshuah Bearman | Posted 10.04.2008 | Home

Read More: John McCain, Steve Schmidt, rnc08, Rnc, GOP Candidates, Sarah Palin, Home News

And to think I decided not to go the DNC. "Too boring!" I said to myself. Who knew? Now, I'm obsessively following the furious debate about Palin an...

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GOP Sez: Clintons' Personal Lives Fair Game, Asking Anything Critical Of Sarah Palin "Sleazy"

Tony Sachs | Posted 10.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mainstream Media, Bill Clinton, Karl Rove, John McCain, Thomas Eagleton, Sarah Palin, Hillary Clinton, Ken Starr, Steve Schmidt, Republican Party, 2008 Election, Sarah Palin Reaction, Politics News

The McCain campaign angrily derided the Democratic Party, mainstream media and liberal blogs today for vetting Sarah Palin when the McCain camp's own ...

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Rove "Wrong" About Palin, Steve Schmidt Says

The Huffington Post | Posted 10.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Rove Palin, Karl Rove, Palin Bridge to Nowhere, Sarah Palin, Steve Schmidt Rove, Karl Rove Sarah Palin, Steve Schmidt, Rove Sarah Palin, Politics News

In an interview with CBS' Katie Couric last night, John McCain chief strategist Steve Schmidt takes Karl Rove to task: COURIC: I want to get your rea...

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