thenation.com - 10/31/2008
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Ross Tuttle Just months after the Keating Five scandal, John McCain hosted a family reunion at a Bermuda Navy base--on the taxpayer's dime.
fivethirtyeight.com - 10/31/2008
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fivethirtyeight.com —
As the only reporter during this election who
has actually visited upwards of 50 of John McCain's...
field offices around the country (13 battleground states and counting), this piece by Matthew Mosk at the Washington Post comes as no surprise: The ...
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The Big Empty
talkingpointsmemo.com - 10/31/2008
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The McCain campaign has been throwing around so
much mud and smears in recent weeks that it's...
easy to miss just how ugly and shameful their character assassination of Rashid Khalidi is. This is an entirely respectable, highly respected scholar. To go ...
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McCain's Disgrace
marcambinder.theatlantic.com - 11/1/2008
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The last thing the McCain campaign needs on
election day is demoralized Republicans. Hence this memo, which...
recapitulates what Davis and co. said on a conference call with reporters this morning. From: Rick Davis, McCain-Palin Campaign ...
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A McCain Campaign Memo
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Joshuah Bearman: Maverick McCain Goes to Bermuda!
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... But in the meantime, here's one more data point to add to the McCain graph: my friend Ross Tuttle has a story just up at The Nation about McCain's week long, tax-funded, family reunion at the Bermuda Naval Air Station in 1991. Yes, this was a while back but the timing is important: the trip was taken just after McCain's Keating censure, the supposed moment of McCain's political transformation into a reformer. I guess reform includes flying to Bermuda on military planes and having sailors carry your shopping bags around. ...
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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 ...
Who Do You Believe?
talkingpointsmemo.com 10/25/2008 — The McCain camp is denying that it was a campaign spokesperson who told local TV reporters in Pittsburgh that the "B" supposedly scrawled on the face of a young McCain campaign worker was a reference to "Barack" Obama, angrily carved into her face ...
"Let John McCain be John McCain," his brother pleads
swamppolitics.com 10/14/2008 — By Paul West
John McCain has few stronger supporters than his younger brother Joe, who recently got himself into hot water when he described the fiercely contested Northern Virginia suburbs as "communist country." But that remark pales beside ...
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 ...
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, ...
Who's more negative?
time-blog.com 10/16/2008 — It's a draw. This from the University of Wisconsin Advertising Project:
Prof. Ken Goldstein, director of the Wisconsin Advertising Project, issued the following statement:
“Analysis from the Wisconsin Advertising Project of Sen. John ...
Obama retains seven-point lead on McCain —
Reuters: Politics 10/31/2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama's lead over Republican rival John McCain held steady at seven points as the race for the White House entered its final four days, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released on Friday.
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