openleft.com - 10/24/2008
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One of the most inaccurate narratives out there in our elite press corps is how John McCain 'changed' since his honorable campaign in 2000, and that his campaign right now, with its racism, dishonesty, and sheer lunatic anger, is a McCain who has let Republican operatives take over. There ...
thedailybeast.com - 10/25/2008
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thedailybeast.com —
Steve Schmidt and his colleagues took John McCain
further than he had any reasonable right to, given...
the political climate. The most popular parlor game in Washington, D.C., these days is the bludgeoning of the McCain campaign. It started with Bill ...
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The McCain Mutiny
article.nationalreview.com - 10/24/2008
realclearpolitics.com - 10/24/2008
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realclearpolitics.com —
WASHINGTON -- Contrarian that I am, I'm voting
for John McCain. I'm not talking about bucking the...
polls or the media consensus that it's over before it's over. I'm talking about bucking the rush of wet-fingered conservatives leaping to Barack Obama ...
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McCain for President
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Hullabaloo —
The Myth Of A Maverick by dday Matt Stoller has scored an incredible interview with a staffer from John McCain's 2000 Presidential campaign. It might not surprise you, given the sludge that his campaign is currently running, that the style is virtually unchanged from those days, when he was this supposed straight-talking honorable maverick. John McCain hasn't changed a bit. McCain 2000 staffer: Yes, in South Carolina he had the Quinn's running his campaign out of their office. McCain did very well with establishment Republicans in NH... they helped him get his big win there ...
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The Real McCain
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com 10/30/2008 —
Anne Applebaum and Joe Klein, like countless others, cannot support McCain because of his repulsive, vicious, negative, McCarthyite campaign and his unvetted spur-of-the-moment decision to pick Sarah Palin, an unhinged, know-nothing, ...
Will has no use for McCain
washingtonmonthly.com 10/30/2008 — WILL HAS NO USE FOR MCCAIN.... It's probably fair to say conservative columnist George Will has been thoroughly unimpressed by John McCain of late. He's blasted McCain for "behaving like a flustered rookie playing in a league too high." Will...
York: I Am Not President Bush.
article.nationalreview.com 10/16/2008 — Who won? There seems little doubt that McCain scored many more points than Obama.
McCain's Mistake?
rossdouthat.theatlantic.com 10/16/2008 — David Frum , on his primary-season choices: While nobody could have predicted that a global
financial crisis would erupt in the fall of 2008, it was observable a
year ago that the incomes of the middle class had stagnated during the
Bush years. (I ...
Bush Casts Early '08 Vote for McCain
blogs.abcnews.com 10/24/2008 — ABC News' Jon Garcia Reports: The President and Mrs. Bush cast their ballots Friday for the 2008 election during the early voting process, according to an email from White House Press Secretary Dana Perino. "For months the President has said...
How McCain lost me.
althouse.blogspot.com 11/9/2008 — As promised , I'm mining my archive -- beginning in late August -- to try to understand how I turned against John McCain. August 25: "Nicely done. I'm glad to see the return of the light touch," I say about an Obama ad that uses the song "What a ...
Obama Campaign: Tonight's Debate Is McCain's "Last Chance"
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 10/15/2008 — The Obama campaign kicks off the pre-debate spin war with a memo from spokesperson Bill Burton that has a sly twist to it:
In tonight's debate, Chuck Todd of NBC News says, McCain needs to "figure out how to disqualify Barack Obama." Time ...
McCain Brings Hope to Pennsylvania
fivethirtyeight.com 10/28/2008 — There had been some pushback from McCain operatives about whether the Republican in fact intended to concede Colorado, as CNN had reported yesterday . In politics, however, money speaks louder than words, and the New York Times is now reporting that ...
McCain as Butch Cassidy? —
First Read 10/24/2008
From NBC/NJ's Mike Memoli CHARLESTON, WV – It is “crazy” of John McCain to think he can now attack George Bush’s policies after championing them for eight years, Joe Biden said during the first general election appearance for Democrats in ...
Bush and Cheney cast ballots for McCain —
CNN Political Ticker 10/24/2008
WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Bush has cast his ballot in the 2008 election, spokeswoman Dana Perino said Friday.
He voted for John McCain, "of course," she said.
Laura Bush, who also cast her ballot Friday, also voted for McCain, her ...
Obama camp talks state of the race —
First Read 10/24/2008
From NBC/NJ's Athena Jones and NBC's Ashley Codianni With 11 days to go, the Obama campaign is feeling good about its position in several of the key battleground states, due to the strength of its ground operations, enthusiasm among supporters, ...