theweek.com - 10/28/2008
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When John McCain at last focused on the economy in this campaign, he recycled the Republican playbook from the late 70s and early 80s. Those old moves had had a remarkable shelf life, lasting a generation. They had carried the first of the hapless Bushes to the White House in 1988 and powered ...
rasmussenreports.com - 10/29/2008
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rasmussenreports.com —
After several weeks of John McCain’s campaign attacks
on Barack Obama’s tax plan and idea of “spreading
the wealth around”, the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds voters trust McCain more than Obama on taxes, 47% to 45%. Two ...
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McCain Trusted More on Taxes and Economy
article.nationalreview.com - 10/28/2008
azcentral.com - 10/26/2008
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azcentral.com —
Nowhere else in the country do voters know
John McCain like Arizonans know John McCain. Voters here
have sent McCain to Washington, D.C., on their behalf five times since his first election to Congress in 1982. As much as an electorate can, we know ...
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McCain: A leader for these times
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Reagan Script Re-Write
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... Are you better off than you were eight years ago? “McCain is learning the hard way, even if he won’t yet admit it, that the Reagan playbook’s time has come and gone. . . . the Republican era of wholesale deregulation and the redistribution of wealth, upward, is over.” ...
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Daily Kos —
... consider the Gerald Ford era as the golden age of Republican speechmaking. Der Spiegel/Robert Kagan: SPIEGEL: Isn't it true that Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld took advantage of the outrage over the 9/11 terrorist attacks to strike Iraq? Is it even possible anymore to deny that the war was based on manipulation, exaggeration and flat-out lies? Kagan: That's absurd. SPIEGEL: It's a commonly held view... Robert Shrum: But now McCain is learning the hard way, even if he ...
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