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July 2008
- History Against McCain Winning Third Term for GOP
  
  newser | Boston Globe | Jul 14, 08 4:10 PM CDT
  
  In all six elections since 1928 in which one party had 8 consecutive years in the White House, the incumbent party lost popular vote ground; in four, Americans voted for change. That's bad news for John McCain, Robert David Sullivan writes in the Boston Globe , because George Bush only won 50.7% of the national popular vote in 2004. More »
  
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  John McCain • George W. Bush • Al Gore • New Jersey • Pennsylvania • Delaware • incumbents • election history
- New McCain Attack: Obama Wants to Lose War
  
  newser | Talking Points Memo | Jul 14, 08 1:57 PM CDT
  
  John McCain’s inner circle tried a new line of attack against Barack Obama today, charging that the presumptive Democratic nominee and his entire party want to lose the Iraq war to serve their own political purposes. Said McCain’s top foreign policy hand, “Senator Obama seems to think losing a war will help him to win an election.” More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Iraq • John McCain • Afghanistan • Harry Reid • patriotism • Lindsey Graham
- Social Security Reform Dicey for McCain
  
  newser | Los Angeles Times | Jul 14, 08 11:26 AM CDT
  
  John McCain has opened a political can of worms by embracing the polarizing issue of privatizing social security, the Los Angeles Times reports. McCain says making young workers pay into a plan unlikely to benefit them is a "disgrace." Counters a rep for one group planning to fight the GOP candidate: "This could well be McCain's Achilles' heel with … the baby boomer generation." More »
  
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  John McCain • election 2008 • election • McCain 2008 • Social Security • privatization
- Lieberman a Sore Subject With Dems
  
  newser | New York Times | Jul 14, 08 5:59 AM CDT
  
  Joe Lieberman, long at odds with his party over his outspoken support for the war in Iraq, has become so estranged from his Democratic colleagues since he began campaigning for John McCain that the New York Times wonders if the strained relationship is heading for a divorce. While, for example, he still attends Democratic weekly lunches, he left the room at a recent one when the presidential election came up. “It was the right thing to do,” said a colleague. More »
  
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  John McCain • Congress • Senate • Joseph Lieberman • independent • Democratic Senators
- Snow Was 'the Best': Cheney
  
  newser | Time | Jul 13, 08 2:41 PM CDT
  
  Tony Snow, economic policy, veepstakes, and the Freddie Mac/Fannie Mae crisis sparked conversation on the Sunday talk show circuit today. Time sums them up: Fox News Sunday paid homage to late newscaster and press secretary Tony Snow; Dick Cheney called him "the best" he's known. Arnold Shwarzenegger applauded John McCain's bipartisanship and Iraq policy on This Week , but dismissed the idea of working at a McCain White House . More »
  
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  Barack Obama • John McCain • Arnold Schwarzenegger • Fox News • Meet the Press • Tony Snow • Sunday Morning
- US Weighs Faster Iraq Withdrawal
  
  newser | New York Times | Jul 13, 08 7:29 AM CDT
  
  US officials in Washington and Baghdad may pull as many as three brigades from Iraq by the time George Bush leaves office, the New York Times reports. The move, driven in part by a need to bolster the American presence in Afghanistan, could remove far more troops than seemed likely just months ago, and would mark a major shift in policy from the past few years. More »
  
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  Iraq • John McCain • George W. Bush • Iraq war • Afghanistan • US military • troop withdrawal • Iraq pullout
- Gramm's Got It: We Are Whining
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jul 12, 08 12:31 PM CDT
  
  When John McCain aide Phil Gramm said America is in a “mental recession,” not a real one, he was speaking with much-needed honesty and accuracy, Amity Shlaes writes in the Washington Post . Gramm has faced an avalanche of bad press for speaking candidly rather than from the perspective of campaign econ, which “says the economy is a certain way because Americans think it is.” More »
  
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  John McCain • election 2008 • recession • economy • Phil Gramm
- GOP Must Strike Back in the 'Burbs
  
  newser | National Review | Jul 11, 08 4:45 PM CDT
  
  The GOP coalition—seemingly indomitable 4 years ago—is in shambles, losing ground “on nearly every demographic and geographic front,” write Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam in the National Review . Republicans must expand their base, and the writers have a plan: Seduce “the affluent, well-educated, increasingly liberal upper middle class.” More »
  
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  John McCain • environmentalism • Ronald Reagan • Republican • suburbs • charter school
- GOP's Hagel Will Travel to Iraq With Obama
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Jul 11, 08 2:39 PM CDT
  
  GOP national-security stalwart and longtime McCain friend Chuck Hagel will join Barack Obama on his upcoming trip to Iraq, sources tell the Wall Street Journal . The retiring Nebraskan senator has been a vocal critic of the war and the Bush administration. Despite his Republican credentials, he has been floated as a potential Cabinet member and as a long-shot VP choice for Obama. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Iraq • John McCain • Vietnam War • Chuck Hagel • Joe Lieberman
- Poll: McCain Trails by 3 in Arizona
  
  newser | Washington Independent | Jul 11, 08 12:36 PM CDT
  
  A new online poll shows Barack Obama leading John McCain 42%-39% in the Republican’s home state of Arizona. Libertarian hopeful Bob Barr is playing a sizable spoiler role, the Washington Independent reports, with 7% of Arizona voters giving him their backing—including 16% who call themselves very conservative. (Independent Ralph Nader claims 2%, and 5% are undecided.) More »
  
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  Barack Obama • John McCain • Internet • Arizona • Bob Barr • opinion polls • conservative vote
- In Divorce, McCain Lost Both Reagans
  
  newser | Los Angeles Times | Jul 11, 08 12:02 PM CDT
  
  If Nancy Reagan’s endorsement of John McCain seemed a little muted—"Obviously this is the nominee of the party,” was all she would say—it’s probably because she’s still angry at the way McCain's first marriage ended, the LA Times reports. The couples were great friends until McCain divorced his first wife, Carol, whom the Reagans adored, and swiftly married Cindy. More »
  
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  John McCain • divorce • Ronald Reagan • Cindy McCain • Nancy Reagan
- Citizen Glitch Makes Mac Ineligible to Be Prez: Expert
  
  newser | New York Times | Jul 11, 08 3:21 AM CDT
  
  John McCain does not meet the constitutional requirement to be president because he's technically not a natural-born US citizen, a legal professor has concluded. But the expert, who focused on an obscure 1937 law that made McCain a citizen in the months after his birth in the Panama Canal Zone, says it's "preposterous" that the technicality should make a difference, the New York Times reports. “But this is the constitutional text that we have.” More »
  
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  John McCain • citizenship • constitution • US citizenship • Panama Canal Zone
- McCain 'Wobbling' Leftward Again on Immigration
  
  newser | The Hill | Jul 10, 08 7:10 PM CDT
  
  By John McCain’s own admission, his embrace of immigration reform nearly sunk his candidacy in the early primaries, writes Byron York in the Hill . But after saving his hide with a swing to the right and a pledge to "secure the border first" (a “legitimate flip-flop,” York specifies), the pendulum is moving leftward again. McCain recently told a Latino audience that comprehensive reform “will be my top priority yesterday, today, and tomorrow.” More »
  
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  John McCain • immigration reform • Latino voters • flip flop • border security
- McCain's $22M June Is Best Month to Date
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jul 10, 08 5:13 PM CDT
  
  June was John McCain's best fundraising month yet, the AP reports, with the Republican bringing in $22 million; the perennially poorer candidate now has $27 million on hand. The Republican National Committee also had a good month, bringing in $26 million; the two camps together have $95 million in the bank. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • John McCain • campaign fundraising • political advertising • RNC
- Gramm in Doghouse After 'Nation of Whiners' Crack
  
  newser | Time | Jul 10, 08 4:05 PM CDT
  
  After Phil Gramm, a ranking economic adviser to John McCain, described America as a “nation of whiners” suffering from a “mental recession,” the campaign trail is lit up over the topic, Time reports: From McCain himself, “Phil Gramm does not speak for me. I speak for me.” Asked about the Texan’s future job prospects, “I think Sen. Gramm would be in serious consideration for Ambassador to Belarus.” More »
  
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  Barack Obama • John McCain • recession • Dr Phil • Phil Gramm • Belarus
- Mac Speechless on Fiorina Birth Control Slip
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Jul 10, 08 2:56 PM CDT
  
  A full day after the blogosphere was lit up over Carly Fiorina’s decidedly un-conservative suggestion that health insurers should cover birth control, John McCain still had no comment when asked about it, the Wall Street Journal reports. And a decidedly awkward no-comment, at that: McCain: “I certainly do not want to discuss that issue." Reporter: “But apparently you’ve voted against—“ More »
  
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  John McCain • health insurance • birth control • Carly Fiorina
- McCain Insider: Economic Woes Merely 'Mental Recession'
  
  newser | Politico | Jul 10, 08 12:11 PM CDT
  
  One of John McCain’s top economic confidantes said yesterday the country is in a “mental recession” and the US has “become a nation of whiners,” constantly “complaining about … America in decline.” The Democratic National Committee moved quickly to condemn Phil Gramm’s remarks—which are likely to hurt efforts, Mike Allen writes on Politico, “to convince working-class Americans that McCain feels their pain.” More »
  
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  John McCain • recession • blue-collar vote • DNC • Phil Gramm • gaffes
- Obama Advisers Rip Mac Plan to Expel Russia From G-8
  
  newser | Los Angeles Times | Jul 9, 08 6:00 PM CDT
  
  John McCain is off-base in his suggestion Russia should be booted from the Group of 8, two former Clinton cabinet officials—and current Obama advisers—write in the Los Angeles Times . Sure, Moscow has departed from democracy, Madeline Albright and William Perry allow, but the US stands a better chance of changing the nation's ways if it's not hung up on “symbolism and protocol.” More »
  
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  Barack Obama • John McCain • Russia • terrorism • Madeleine Albright • G-8
- Union Ad Urges Vets to Abandon McCain
  
  newser | The Swamp | Jul 9, 08 5:05 PM CDT
  
  Worried about the appeal John McCain has for military veterans among its members, the AFL-CIO is launching an advertising campaign criticizing the Republican's economic policies, the Chicago Tribune reports. The union will spend $53.4 million on the campaign, running mainly in places like Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Virginia— battleground states hit hard by the economic downturn. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • John McCain • George W. Bush • veterans • labor • AFL CIO
- On Running Mate, Obama Can Jog, Mac Should Sprint
  
  newser | Time | Jul 9, 08 4:14 PM CDT
  
  Timing the unveiling of one's running mate is a crucial publicity challenge, David Von Drehle writes in Time —and John McCain would be best served by playing his card soon, while Barack Obama should keep his ace up his sleeve. Obama could run into trouble from rabid Hillary Clinton fans at the Democratic convention, and might need “to hold a headline in reserve." More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • John McCain • George W. Bush • vice president • Democratic National Convention • Republican National Convention

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