October 29, 2008 - The weekend, the New York Times magazine published an extensive article about John McCain's difficulty defining himself during this election season. The piece describes argument after argument, discussion after discussion, as McCain and his advisers struggled to come up with a clear "narrative" for...
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October 13, 2008 - Wheeling, WV--John McCain told supporters today that Barack Obama is a "good and decent man," but that he "fundamentally disagrees" with what he termed "that one's plan" to "crucify untold numbers of Christians when he seizes power."
In a rambling and often contradictory speech, Mc...
September 25, 2008 - Here's the stumper from Katie Couric...
September 25, 2008 - Looks like the McCain campaign is trying to jump on a whole lot of grenades at once. The media is really getting sick of Sarah Palin playing hard-to-get. Rick Davis's consulting firm has been...
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September 24, 2008 - John McCain's campaign manager, Rick Davis, owns a company that received payments from doomed mortgage company Freddie Mac. Davis had consulted for...
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August 13, 2008 - On Fox News Sunday, Rick Davis, John McCain's campaign manager, said the candidate isn't "ruling out" making a pledge to only serve one term. This, of course, is political-speak for "expect a 'surprise' announcement about a one-term presidency at the Republican Convention."
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July 8, 2008 - The McCain campaign is reportedly suffering from infighting and power plays amongst various advisers and senior staff, all of whom squa...
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July 2, 2008 - For the second time in the past year, John McCain has made a move to right his floundering campaign by shaking up his staff. Steve Sc...
June 11, 2008 - WASHINGTON, D.C. - Presumptive Republican presidential candidate John McCain today enlisted the services of Thomson and Thomson Consulting, a firm that specializes in lobbying Congress about the negatives of lobbying.
"We specialize in telling Congress the tough truth about lobbying and lobbyists...
May 22, 2008 - You might want to avoid John McCain's campaign office for a while. It seems the Straight Talk Express is in the middle of an especially bad outbreak of lobbyists. In the last two weeks five campaign staffers have been let go because of lobbying ties...
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February 18, 2008 - GOP frontrunner John McCain has a problem: President Bush wants to campaign for him. While the president has an overall approval rating of 30 percent, he is still pulling 66 percent among Republicans. One McCain advisor said, "you don't leave a president who is popular within his own party...