nytimes.com - 11/6/2008
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The increasingly public airing of tensions between advisers of John McCain and those of Sarah Palin provide a revealing coda to the ill-fated McCain-Palin ticket. >
latimes.com - 11/6/2008
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latimes.com —
Reporting from Phoenix -- Sarah Palin left the
national stage Wednesday, but the controversy over her role...
on the ticket flared as aides to John McCain disclosed new details about her expensive wardrobe purchases and revealed that a Republican Party ...
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Tensions between McCain and Palin camps come to light - ...
althouse.blogspot.com - 11/9/2008
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althouse.blogspot.com —
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 ...
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How McCain lost me.
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Top McCain Aide Secretly Fired Last Week For "Trashing" Staffers
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... The New York Times adds that the McCain campaign pegged Bill Kristol as the most likely recipient of Scheunemann's attacks against fellow McCain staffers: ...
Top McCain Aide Secretly Fired Last Week For "Trashing" Staffers
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... The New York Times adds that the McCain campaign pegged Bill Kristol as the most likely recipient of Scheunemann's attacks against fellow McCain staffers: ...
Musings Over Morning Coffee
Daily Kos —
... Street Journal poll in October showed she had become a bigger drag on McCain than President Bush, with voters citing her qualifications as their primary concern. A CNN poll released last weekend showed Palin's unfavorable ratings were twice as high as when McCain picked her, and 57 percent of Americans believed she didn't have the personal qualities a president needed. The interesting thing is that the American public's opinion is so negative even before the long knives come out. All of this is occurring with the backdrop of an impending ...
The Early Word: McCain-Palin Post-Mortem
The Caucus —
As all eyes turn to President-elect Barack Obama, his transition to the White House and the changing political landscape in Washington and across the country, epilogues to the 2008 presidential race abound. Today The Times’s Elisabeth Bumiller goes inside the McCain campaign to find out what went wrong in the closing days before Nov. 4. ...
Knives Come Out for Palin
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire —
The New York Times reports on the internal battles between staffs of Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin. "The tensions and their increasingly public airing provide a revealing
coda to the ill-fated McCain-Palin ticket, hinting at the mounting
turmoil of a campaign that was described even by many Republicans as
incoherent, negative and badly run."
But most remarkable is a Fox News report on how bad it was. McCain aides say Palin lacked "a degree of knowledgeability necessary to be a running mate, a vice president, a heartbeat away from the presidency."
Key examples: She didn't know which countries were in NAFTA, she didn't understand ...
Was Scheunemann leaking to Kristol?
Michael Calderone's Blog —
The NY Times Elisabeth Bumiller -- before heading to the Pentagon beat -- provides an autopsy of the McCain campaign, including behind-the-scenes infighting within the McCain and Palin camps.
Advisers in the McCain campaign, in suggesting that Palin advisers had been leaking damaging information about the McCain campaign to the news media, said they were particularly suspicious of Randy Scheunemann, Mr. McCain’s top foreign policy aide who had a central role in preparing Ms. Palin for the vice-presidential debate.
As a result, two senior members of the McCain campaign said on Wednesday that Mr. Scheunemann had been fired from the campaign in its final days. ...
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CNN Political Ticker 11/6/2008
Will Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin be the new face of the Republican Party in 2012?.
NEW YORK (CNN) – The Republican Party faces a long list of problems with no clear national leader and an identity crisis that will play out during a period of good ...
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