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McCain 2008 stories: 275 news summaries

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(Newser) - If you saw Alec Baldwin's courtly interaction with Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live and you're wondering what's gotten into the well-known liberal firebrand, he's wondering something, too: What's your problem? "What did some of you people actually think would happen?" he writes in a post that went... More »

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Saturday Night Live • Alec Baldwin • Tina Fey • McCain 2008 • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin • McCain-Palin

'Outsider' Palin Used Media Insiders to
Win VP Nod

PR firm helped her woo pundits, make case

Oct 20, 08 4:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sarah Palin likes to play up her outsider credentials while decrying the media elite, but she’s relied on both throughout her career. Belying her mockery of the “mainstream media,” Palin hired a well-connected PR firm to target East Coast journalists and courted conservative media insiders who eventually... More »

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John McCain • media • Joe Lieberman • Republican Party • McCain 2008 • Election 2008 • conservative base • Sarah Palin • McCain-Palin • Dick Morris • William Kristol

analysis

 Journos Will 
 Look Dumb 
 if Mac Wins 

A few situations that could trigger a McCain victory

Oct 19, 08 6:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - If John McCain pulls off a surprise victory, reporters who predicted a landslide for Barack Obama are going to look for head-space in the sand, writes Jack Shafer in the Washington Post—unless they quickly whip off one of these articles:
  • "McCain's Michigan Miracle." When McCain pulled
... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Obama 2008 • McCain 2008 • Election 2008

OPINION

Don't Question McCain's 'Nam Heroism 

Mac was an inspiration to fellow POWs

Oct 19, 08 4:24 PM CDT
(Newser) - There’s plenty wrong with John McCain, but questions about his heroism in Vietnam just don’t stand up, biographer Matt Welch writes in the LA Times. McCain “gave great strength to his fellow POWs,” and “unless you think that inspiring your fellow prisoners to resist and... More »

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John McCain • POW • Vietnam War • McCain 2008 • Election 2008

TALK SHOW ROUNDUP

 Robocalls Are 
 Legit: McCain 

Defends use of same tactic used against him in 2000

Oct 19, 08 1:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain defended his use of robocalls on Fox News Sunday, arguing his attacks on Barack Obama are different from the slanderous calls that targeted him during the 2000 primaries, Politico reports. “These are legitimate and truthful and they are far different than the phone calls that were... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Newt Gingrich • campaign finance • Obama 2008 • robo-calls • McCain 2008 • Election 2008 • polls

Cindy McCain Seeks Return
to City That Shunned Her

Candidate's wife fights hard for husband despite distaste for political life

Oct 18, 08 11:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - Cindy McCain is giving her all to get her husband into the White House despite the tough time the capital has given her in the past, the New York Times reports. When she moved there early in her marriage, the young political wife found herself ostracized by cliquey congressional wives... More »

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John McCain • Washington DC • Cindy McCain • McCain 2008 • Election 2008 • Carol McCain

 Lobbyist Denies McCain Affair 

'I have never even been alone with Sen. McCain,' Vicki Iseman says

Oct 17, 08 5:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - Vicki Iseman lashed out at the New York Times and a former John McCain adviser for the February story that implied an affair occurred between her and the Republican candidate, the National Journal reports. “I did not have a sexual relationship with Sen. McCain,” Iseman says. In fact,... More »

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John McCain • New York Times • journalism • affair • McCain 2008 • Election 2008 • Vicki Iseman

Meghan McCain: I'll Get NH Tattoo If Dad Wins

A loss in the state would be 'very depressing' for her

Oct 17, 08 4:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - If John McCain takes the White House and wins New Hampshire, Meghan McCain says she'll get a tattoo of the state’s motto, the Union Leader reports. "New Hampshire is so important to me and my family," the younger McCain told supporters in the state where her dad... More »

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John McCain • New Hampshire • tattoos • New Hampshire primary • McCain 2008 • Election 2008 • Meghan McCain

ANALYSIS

Sure, You Can See Palin Email ... for $15M

And after Alaska fees for search, they won't be ready until mid-Nov.

Oct 17, 08 1:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sarah Palin ran on a platform of transparent government, but it seems that Alaskan transparency has a price: $15 million. That’s how much the governor’s office wants from news organizations for copies of official email, MSNBC reports. Even if organizations are willing to pay up, the email will... More »

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email • Redacted • McCain 2008 • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin • transparency

ANALYSIS

 Obama Forces Battle for Va. 

McCain forced to defend GOP stronghold

Oct 17, 08 1:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - Virginia hasn’t swung Democrats’ way since Lyndon Johnson, but suddenly it’s a battleground, the Washington Post reports, and Obama appears to have all the tactical advantages. The Dem has three times as many campaign offices, and his army of volunteers has registered almost a half-million new voters.... More »

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Virginia • Obama 2008 • volunteer • McCain 2008 • Election 2008 • voter registration

 McCain, Letterman Make Up 


Oct 16, 08 7:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain finally made it back on David Letterman's show, and he promptly issued two apologies—one to Dave and one to Joe the Plumber. In an appearance taped to air tonight, McCain apologized to Letterman for canceling a September appearance at the last minute. "I screwed up,"... More »

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ANALYSIS

 Fired-Up Mac Couldn't Land a Punch on Obama

Without a game-changer, Republican strikes out in third debate, and race

Oct 16, 08 3:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain turned in his best debate performance last night but couldn't turn it into the game-changer he needed, Sam Youngman writes in The Hill. McCain was fiercer this time, but he failed to score a direct hit on his unflappable opponent and didn't come up with any new arguments... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • presidential debate • Obama 2008 • McCain 2008 • Election 2008

(Newser) - John McCain and Barack Obama met tonight in the final presidential debate, their testiest meeting so far on a range of issues from the economy to negative campaigning, NBC reports. McCain pushed back against Obama's attempts to link him to the Bush administration. “Senator Obama, I’m not President... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • presidential debate • debate • Obama 2008 • McCain 2008 • Election 2008

ANALYSIS

 Obama Ad Blitz 
 Stifles McCain 

Dem using massive fundraising edge to outspend GOP by as much 8-1

Oct 15, 08 1:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - Over the past three weeks, Northern Virginia TV viewers have seen 1,342 commercials from Barack Obama … and eight from John McCain. Obama is dominating the airwaves, Politico reports, outspending McCain and the Republican National Committee as much as 8-1 in some markets, blunting GOP attacks with a sustained... More »

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campaign finance • McCain Feingold • Obama 2008 • campaign advertising • McCain 2008 • Election 2008

A Baseball Nerd Turns to
Election Stats

Nate Silver was right
on the Rays; he's now calling the presidency

Oct 15, 08 11:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - Give the sheer number of political polls being produced, and the history of many of them proving wrong, it takes a seriously smart statistician (and something of a nerd) to predict the presidential race with any authority. Nate Silver, the man who "revolutionized the interpretation of baseball stats,"... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • electoral college • Obama 2008 • Tampa Bay Devil Rays • statistics • predictions • baseball • McCain 2008 • Election 2008 • polls • Nick Silver

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

Fear-Mongering Palin Scares Mac Straighter

GOP nominee tries for calm with running mate out of control

Oct 14, 08 2:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - These days, John McCain is more concerned with calming down his crowds than riling them up, writes Roger Simon in Politico, which “may not be a winning thing to do. But it is honorable.” The problem is that Sarah Palin “is running a separate—and scary—campaign,... More »

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John McCain • McCain 2008 • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin • Bill Ayers

 McCain: Protect All Savings 


Oct 14, 08 12:18 PM CDT
(AP) - Republican John McCain says he would order the Treasury Department to guarantee 100% of all savings for the next 6 months as president. That provision is part of a $52.5 billion plan the presidential candidate laid out to address the nation's deepening financial crisis. "The moment requires that... More »

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John McCain • Treasury Department • savings account • FDIC • McCain 2008 • Election 2008 • financial crisis

OPINION

Palin's Stumbles Make Women of All Stripes Cringe

VP candidate could be setting feminism back a generation

Oct 13, 08 5:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain must not understand affirmative action. “You don’t run out and hire the first woman you find on the sidewalk and call it a day,” writes Susan Reimer in the Baltimore Sun—you take the time to find someone qualified. But it’s painfully clear McCain... More »

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feminism • McCain 2008 • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin

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