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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: Mark Salter

Mark Salter stories: 4 news summaries
ANALYSIS

How Revolving Narratives Swamped Would-Be Narrator

McCain's move from tactic to tactic resulted in confused overall strategy

Oct 23, 08 4:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain’s campaign has gone through a dizzying number of narratives, as Robert Draper outlines in the New York Times. Draper looks inside a dysfunctional operation driven by two quarreling old McCain friends (Rick Davis and speechwriter Mark Salter), and the Rovian outsider who reconciled them (Steve Schmidt). The... More »

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John McCain • Rick Davis • Robert Draper • McCain 2008 • campaign staff • Election 2008 • Mark Salter • Sarah Palin • Steve Schmidt

ANALYSIS

As McCain Shaped Book, Book Shaped McCain

Process of writing memoir recast Republican's political persona

Oct 13, 08 2:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - As recently as 1998, John McCain told Esquire that being introduced as a “great war hero” was enough to “make your skin crawl.” Today, however, his POW experience is a pillar of his presidential campaign, a change David Kirkpatrick of the New York Times attributes to the... More »

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John McCain • Vietnam veteran • memoir • prisoner of war • McCain 2008 • Election 2008 • Mark Salter

 McCain's Lead Dog
 Isn't Afraid to Bark, or Bite 

Mark Salter rides the media hard, thinks he knows where Obama is soft

May 15, 08 6:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - Mark Salter has the honor of being John McCain’s “chief creator, shaper and enforcer,” the Wall Street Journal reports of a man who rides the press corps hard and thinks he knows Barack Obama’s soft spots. A McCain confidant of two decades, the goateed, chain-smoking Salter... More »

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climate change • Barack Obama • John McCain • media • Hurricane Katrina • Mark Salter

McCain's Men: The Team Behind the Turnaround

'Sedona Five' crack team of loyalists revamped battle

Mar 7, 08 9:50 AM CST
(Newser) - John McCain's back-from-the-dead presidential bid can attribute its triumph to a number of factors: the successes of the Iraq surge, the rise of Mike Huckabee, Rudy Giuliani's concession in New Hampshire. But before any of those game-changing events, the McCain comeback was engineered by a small, crack team of loyalists... More »

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John McCain • Republican presidential primaries • New Hampshire primary • Election 2008 • Sedona Five • Mark Salter

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