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ELECTION 2010

 Reid to 'Vaporize' 
 GOP Challengers: Aide 

Senate majority leader studying Corzine for cues to effective negative campaign

Oct 20, 09 1:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - Harry Reid, his re-election campaign wilting in the polls, is getting ready to rumble: The Senate majority leader is promising an intensely negative campaign against the 2010 GOP challenger for his Senate seat. With his $8.7 million war chest—the largest ever for a Nevada statewide race—Reid will... More »

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Congress • Jon Corzine • Senate • Harry Reid • Nevada • negative campaigning • attack ad • Election 2010 • midterm elections • Christopher Christie • Sue Lowden • Danny Tarkanian • Election 09 • election day November 2009

analysis

Obama Sneaks Power Back
Into the Mix

Adviser who called Clinton 'monster' lands national security role

Jan 30, 09 1:01 PM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama’s national security team seems to consist entirely of people known for speaking their minds, observes Ben Smith of Politico, and none moreso than new NSC staff member Samantha Power, best known for calling Hillary Clinton “a monster.” She was booted for the incident, but that... More »

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national security • Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • campaign adviser • Rwanda • negative campaigning • Election 2008 • Samantha Power • Susan Rice • National Security Council

(Newser) - Take that, Joe Biden. And Rahm Emanuel. And you too, New York Times Magazine interviewer. In a recent chat, a testy Karl Rove says the VP-elect "has an odd combination of longevity and long-windedness that passes for wisdom in Washington." Asked if he engages in negative politics, the... More »

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Karl Rove • Rahm Emanuel • negative campaigning • George W. Bush

analysis

Kristol Used His Column to Help McCain's Rebels

Pro-Palin camp fed columnist 'a constant stream of poison'

Nov 7, 08 3:23 PM CST
(Newser) - As Bill Kristol used his New York Times column to relentlessly praise Sarah Palin and simultaneously blast the McCain camp's handling of her, he was far from an objective observer, writes Scott Horton in the Daily Beast. Kristol regularly received inside information from the McCain team's pro-Palin contingent, then used... More »

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New York Times • columnists • negative campaigning • McCain 2008 • Sarah Palin • Randy Scheunemann • William Kristol

 Candidates Keep Punching 

McCain, Obama break with tradition and carry their negative campaigning into the election's final days

Nov 3, 08 3:11 AM CST
(Newser) - Both presidential candidates are bucking tradition and remaining on the offensive in the last days of the election—a time when campaigns usually back off and focus on positive messages, the Washington Post reports. Barack Obama is spinning Dick Cheney’s endorsement of John McCain as a troubling indication of... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • John McCain • Dick Cheney • negative campaigning • Election 2008

Palin: Media Threatening My First Amendment Rights

Because it won't let me attack Obama without criticizing me

Nov 1, 08 11:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sarah Palin seems to think the Constitution is supposed to protect her from criticism. On a conservative radio show, Palin said the media is unfairly attacking her for her shots at Obama on Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright, and that if the media “convinces enough voters that that is... More »

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First Amendment • negative campaigning • McCain 2008 • Election 2008 • freedom of speech • Sarah Palin

OPINION

Mac's Tactics Time-Tested ... But This Ain't the Time

'Tinny and trivial' attacks are too small, and in any case too late, in momentous election

Oct 31, 08 2:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - Any day now, John McCain will mock John Kerry for flip-flopping. Or maybe go with George H.W.’s “Read my lips, no new taxes,” pledge, even Eisenhower’s “I shall go to Korea.” What he won’t do is offer anything new, because all... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • negative campaigning • McCain 2008 • Election 2008

OPINION

Mac Should Muzzle Staffers,
Drop Robocalls,
Talk Security

Remind voters why they admired him: Kristol

Oct 27, 08 1:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - William Kristol has some advice for John McCain: “When you’re in a hole, stop digging.” In a recent poll, 64% of respondents said they believe McCain spends more time attacking Barack Obama than making his own case. The senator ought to pull his negative ads, robocalls, and... More »

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national security • Barack Obama • John McCain • negative campaigning • Election 2008 • William Kristol

Swing Voters Don't Like 'Hothead' McCain

Crisis turns voters towards 'cool and collected' Obama

Oct 21, 08 4:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - Doubts over John McCain's disposition are pushing undecided voters Barack Obama's way, according to the Los Angeles Times. Swing voters interviewed by the newspaper say McCain's negative body language over the last few weeks and his "hothead" outbursts have given them strong misgivings—as did his snap decision to... More »

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poll • negative campaigning • swing voters • McCain 2008 • Election 2008 • Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll

OPINION

McCain Had a '60s Radical Friend of His Own

Made friends with ex-Vietnam protestor

Oct 18, 08 1:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain has been busily exploiting and distorting Barack Obama’s passing relationship with '60s radical Bill Ayers, but McCain himself had a much closer relationship with another '60s radical, David Ifshin, writes Joe Klein of Time. Ifshin was an anti-Vietnam radical whom many people accused of treason after he... More »

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John McCain • Vietnam • radical • negative campaigning • Election 2008 • Bill Ayers

OPINION

 Bill Ayers Is 
 a Nice Guy 

Republicans are waving the bloody shirt at a model citizen

Oct 15, 08 9:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - In a desperate attempt to link Barack Obama to a 1960s culture war he’s too young to remember, John McCain has spent his last shred of political capital attacking Bill Ayers, Obama’s supposed terrorist pal. “I can personally attest to the idiocy of it all,” writes... More »

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Barack Obama • terrorism • negative campaigning • Election 2008 • Bill Ayers

Joe McCain Slams Big Bro's Handlers

Let John McCain
be John McCain,
pleads letter

Oct 15, 08 9:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - O brother, where art thou? Joe McCain's frustration with the direction of his older brother's campaign has erupted into an angry letter to strategists, reports the Baltimore Sun. The former journalist, who has been stumping for his brother in swing states, slammed the campaign's "counter-productive" strategy of too tightly... More »

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John McCain • negative campaigning • McCain 2008 • Election 2008 • Joe McCain

Obama Lead Up to 14 Points Amid Mac Attacks: Poll

Poll finds Obama ahead 53% to 14% after McCain blows fail to land

Oct 15, 08 3:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain's flurry of attacks against Barack Obama has done the Republican more harm than his opponent, according to the latest New York Times/CBS poll. Obama now commands a 53% to 39% lead, with voters seeing McCain as running the more negative campaign of the two, the poll found. More... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Obama 2008 • negative campaigning • McCain 2008 • Election 2008 • New York Times/CBS News poll

Analysis

 In Crisis, 
 Ads Are 
 Just Noise 

McCain attacks, Obama saturates, and no one cares

Oct 14, 08 2:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - With the election weeks away, the airwaves are thick with campaign ads. McCain has gone almost completely negative, while Obama has used his huge war chest to unleash an unprecedented barrage of messages—and none of it matters, strategists tell the Washington Post. “Most people are looking... More »

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political advertising • negative campaigning • attack ad • Election 2008 • financial crisis

ANALYSIS

 Facing a Wipeout, 
 McCain Tones 
 It Down 

GOP nominee reverts to 'happy warrior' of the primary

Oct 14, 08 11:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - Down in the polls and facing brutal criticism from his own party, John McCain is returning to an old persona: the "happy warrior" that won the GOP primary. Tempering attacks that have proven counterproductive, McCain presented himself as a prepared, tested leader who could bring forceful leadership to... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • negative campaigning • Election 2008

OPINION

'Dysfunctional' Campaign Must Go: Kristol

Attacks haven't and won't work, so it's time to go back to basics

Oct 13, 08 12:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain’s campaign isn’t working, and if he’s smart, he’ll “junk the whole thing and start over,” William Kristol writes in the New York Times. McCain’s current “combination of strategic incoherence and operational incompetence has become toxic,” the high-profile... More »

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John McCain • politics • negative campaigning • McCain 2008 • Election 2008 • Straight Talk Express • William Kristol

OPINION

 Smears Could 
 Cost McCain Fla. 

Risky strategy imperils prez bid

Oct 12, 08 1:04 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Sunshine State is looking cloudy for John McCain, whose risky moves could cost him Florida, just as Rudy Giuliani's posturing sank him in the primary, novelist Carl Hiaasen writes for the Miami Herald. Polls show McCain forfeiting his lead, and his running mate isn't helping. Sarah Palin, Hiaasen snipes,... More »

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Florida • John McCain • Rudy Giuliani • negative campaigning • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin • financial crisis

Furor Ignites After Ga. Rep. Blasts McCain

Civil rights icon Lewis backs off Wallace comparison, but not far

Oct 12, 08 10:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - A day after igniting tensions in both campaigns, civil rights icon John Lewis sought to soften remarks that seemed to compare John McCain to segregationist George Wallace, Politico reports. “It was not my intention or desire to do so,” Lewis said last night. “My statement was a... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • race • George Wallace • negative campaigning • John Lewis • Sarah Palin

OPINION

Forget Sticks, Stones; Her Words Are Bullets

Palin's Obama rhetoric fans racist flames

Oct 12, 08 9:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - The McCain campaign has crossed the line from negative campaigning to “inciting vigilantism” with racist tactics that should raise alarms about Barack Obama’s safety, writes Frank Rich in the New York Times. Particularly troubling is Sarah Palin’s repeated linking of Obama to “terrorists” and her refusal... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Secret Service • racism • terrorist • negative campaigning • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin • Bill Ayers • the race card

McCain Drops Ayers Bomb
for First Time

Candidate rips
Obama's 'truthfulness' at angry rally

Oct 10, 08 4:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain has attacked Barack Obama for his links to political radical  Bill Ayers for the first time, Politico reports. McCain, who had previously left the assault to Sarah Palin, told a raucous Wisconsin rally that booed every mention of Obama's name that the issue went to the heart of... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • negative campaigning • Election 2008 • Bill Ayers

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