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McCain 2008

"I will be our party's nominee." -John McCain

McCain secured the Republican nomination thanks to a decisive win over former nominee Mike Huckabee. But with the star power and oratory smarts of Obama, how will the 72-year-old senator handle the competition?

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July 2008
- No More Navel-Gazing; Go After McCain
  
  newser | Guardian (UK) | Jul 16, 08 8:00 PM CDT
  
  There are two races for president this year, Michael Tomasky writes in the Guardian , “a race about Barack Obama and a race about what the GOP has done to the country.” And Obama would be well served to turn the focus to John McCain, whose recent gaffes have gone unanswered as the Democrat tries to make people vote for him—and not against his opponent. More »
- McCain Camp Likens Obama —to Bush?
  
  newser | Huffington Post | Jul 16, 08 6:22 PM CDT
  
  The McCain camp borrowed a page from its rivals today with a new tack on Barack Obama: He looks a whole lot like George W. Bush. McCain's national security adviser took Obama to task for the rigidity of his Iraq strategy, the Huffington Post reports. "I think the American people have had enough of stubbornness and inflexibility in national security policy,” said Randy Scheunemann. More »
- McCain's Elite Fundraisers Trump Obama's
  
  newser | USA Today | Jul 16, 08 5:45 PM CDT
  
  John McCain appears to be more reliant on funds bundled by elite supporters than Barack Obama, USA Today reports. More than half of the Republican candidate’s receipts, or more than $75 million, came from donations assembled by about 500 top supporters. In contrast, Obama’s top 500 pulled in about $50 million, about 17% of his total. More »
- McCain's Foreign Policy Could Ignite Cold War II
  
  newser | New Republic | Jul 16, 08 4:06 PM CDT
  
  John McCain’s foreign policy—“combustible” and “idealist”—could provoke a second Cold War, pitting the world’s democracies against its autocracies, John Judis writes in the New Republic —at best creating “gratuitous tensions” and at worst wholly “reproducing” the USSR-US “confrontation.” Mac’s proposal for a league of democracies shows that the Republican—erroneously—thinks the world is defined by regimes struggling to impose their form of government on others. More »
- McCain Again Banking on Reform Rep
  
  newser | Politico | Jul 16, 08 2:38 PM CDT
  
  After shying away from the issue for some time, John McCain is returning to his credentials as a crusader for campaign-finance reform, Politico notes. In an attempt to woo independent voters, the Republican is underlining his reputation as a Washington reformer, while coping with flak from small-government conservatives within his party—comparing himself to Teddy Roosevelt in the process. More »
- Obama Rebuts Times Race Story—With Paper's Own Poll
  
  newser | Talking Points Memo | Jul 16, 08 1:33 PM CDT
  
  The Obama campaign has fired back at a front-page New York Times story, which concludes from a poll today that the Dem isn’t healing racial division. The campaign uses stats from the paper's own survey, Talking Points Memo reports. The article “ignores…some straightforward points from their data,” an Obama memo charges. Perhaps chief among them, “More white voters say Obama cares about people like them, than say the same thing about McCain." More »
- Crist Could Be Key as Veep Pick
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jul 16, 08 12:59 PM CDT
  
  Florida’s importance in the general election can hardly be overstated, and his presumed ability to deliver it for the Republicans is at the heart of the case for popular governor Charlie Crist in the veepstakes, writes Chris Cillizza for the Washington Post . McCain may select a VP with more conservative bona fides, assuming he’ll take Florida with or without Crist, but that could be a mistake. More »
- 'Venal' Phil Gramm No Big Loss to McCain Camp
  
  newser | Huffington Post | Jul 15, 08 8:15 PM CDT
  
  "Nation of whiners” adviser Phil Gramm was simply an "accident waiting to happen" for the McCain campaign, writes Max Blumenthal in Huffington Post. Blumenthal runs down the “reactionary, venal and destructive” senator’s foibles—which run from enabling Enron to investing in porn. Gramm “left a massive heap of wreckage…in his wake,” Blumenthal asserts, helping former campaign co-chair Ken Lay build the shadow banking system that aided the mortgage meltdown. More »
- Romney Gains Ground in Veepstakes
  
  newser | Reuters | Jul 15, 08 7:47 PM CDT
  
  Mitt Romney’s business acumen, national profile, and fundraising chops have put him among the elite of VP hopefuls, Reuters reports. And while he and John McCain exchanged nasty barbs during the primaries, the mutual resentment seems to have subsided, at least on the surface. "Mitt and Ann Romney and Cindy and I have become good friends," said McCain. Besides, a little animosity "never stops anyone from joining into an alliance if they can win," said one analyst. More »
- McCain Adopts Obama's Afghanistan Position
  
  newser | Huffington Post | Jul 15, 08 5:12 PM CDT
  
  John McCain suddenly switched both schedule and policy today, transforming a speech about jobs into one on Afghanistan, and echoing Barack Obama's argument for sending in new brigades. Obama has long said more troops are needed in Afghanistan, but McCain has repeatedly contended that NATO should pick up the slack, the Huffington Post reports. More »
- Two National Polls: Obama Up 9, 8
  
  newser | Boston Globe | Jul 15, 08 3:32 PM CDT
  
  Barack Obama leads John McCain nationally in a new Quinnipiac poll, 50% to 41%, with huge advantages among female and young voters. The two split independents with 44% apiece, and McCain led 47%-44% among men and 49%-42% among white voters, the Boston Globe reports. Far more respondents said they were uncomfortable with a president aged 72 than with a black president. More »
- Voters Split on Candidates' Iraq Stances: Poll
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jul 15, 08 10:00 AM CDT
  
  Barack Obama and John McCain have battled each other to a draw when it comes to Iraq, according to a new Washington Post -ABC News poll. Americans are split more or less down the middle on Iraq policy, with 50% supporting Obama’s withdrawal timetable and 49% backing McCain’s open-ended approach. In general, 47% trust McCain to handle Iraq, while 45% trust Obama. More »
- Mac Pushes Gramm Into the Background
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jul 14, 08 7:13 PM CDT
  
  John McCain’s camp has considered Phil Gramm persona non grata since he called Americans "whiners" in a "mental recession" last week, the Washington Post reports. One adviser says he hasn’t spoken to the former senator, a confidante of the Republican on economic matters, “since the comments took place, and I’m not expecting to.” More »
- Slim Poll Gap Looks Good for Mac, at First
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jul 14, 08 5:33 PM CDT
  
  A new poll shows Barack Obama up just 3% on John McCain (from 15% a few weeks ago), and another has them tied—numbers that look fantastic for the presumptive Republican nominee at first blush, Chris Cillizza writes in the Washington Pos t. "Given the tilt of this electorate, it's fairly surprising that Obama hasn't been able to 'close the deal' with voters," one GOP pollster says. More »
- 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 »
- 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 »
- 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 »
- 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 »
- 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 »
- 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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Republican presidential hopeful U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., speaks at a town hall meeting, Tuesday, May 8, 2007, in Fort Dodge, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) (Associated Press)

Republican presidential hopeful, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is shown during an interview with an Associated Press reporter in Grand Rapids, Mich., Thursday, May 10, 2007. (AP Photo/Adam Bird) (Associated Press)

In this photograph provided by "Meet The Press", Republican presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain, R-Aria., left, and his mother, Roberta McCain, speak with moderator Tim Russert during a taping of "Meet... (Associated Press)

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., talks to the media as he arrives for the Republican presidential debate on the campus of The University of South Carolina's Koger Center Tuesday, May 15, 2007, in Columbia,S.C.... (Associated Press)

Republican presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., waves as he take the stage for the Republican debate at University of South Carolina's Koger Center for the Arts, Tuesday, May 15, 2007, in Columbia,... (Associated Press)

Republican presidential hopefuls, from left , Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.; former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani; former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee; Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif.; Sen. Sam Brownback... (Associated Press)

Republican presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., speaks during the Republican Debate at University of South Carolina's Koger Center for the Arts, Tuesday, May 15, 2007, in Columbia, S.C. The... (Associated Press)

Meghan McCain listens to her father, Republican presidential hopeful, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., while speaking at a town hall meeting in Tyler, Texas, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2008. (AP Photo/Dr. Scott M.... (AP Photo)

Republican presidential hopeful, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., conducts a press conference after speaking at a town hall meeting in Tyler, Texas, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2008. (AP Photo/Dr. Scott M. Lieberman) (AP Photo)

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John McCain
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