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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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September 2008
- McCain Running 'Dishonorable' Campaign: Ad
  
  Washington Post | Sep 16, 08 11:23 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Barack Obama has launched a new ad accusing John McCain of running a “disgraceful, dishonorable campaign,” part of a wider pushback against Republican attacks, the Washington Post reports. With McCain pulling even in the polls, the campaign held a series of internal strategy meetings, including a rare Sunday get-together in Chicago, and emerged pledging to leave no assault unanswered. More »
- Powell Sticks to Fence in Prez Race
  
  MSNBC | Sep 16, 08 6:10 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Colin Powell has yet to make up his mind which way he'll vote in November, MSNBC reports. Speaking at a forum with four other former secretaries of state yesterday, the Republican said he would let neither his quarter-century friendship with John McCain—nor the "electrifying" prospect of the first African-American president—be the sole deciding factor. More »
- Mac: Economy's Strong—Or, Er, Maybe Not
  
  Washington Post | Sep 16, 08 4:14 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - John McCain yesterday appeared to flip flop in his response to the deepening crisis on Wall Street, reports the Washington Post . "The fundamentals of our economy are strong," McCain declared. But just minutes later he said that the "fundamentals of our economy are at risk." A new ad by the McCain campaign declares: "Our economy is in crisis." More »
- Stop Bashing Washington Insiders; You'll Need Them
  
  Washington Post | Sep 15, 08 2:27 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Voters have loved to hate Washington insiders since Washington’s founding, and politicians have sought to capitalize on those feelings for just as long. So it makes sense that even the GOP ticket, fortified by Sarah Palin, is running as an outsider insurgency. But, Norman Ornstein points out in the Washington Post , no administration can accomplish change without "the deep deployment of people who know how to move the levers of power from the inside." More »
- Feminist Fey Skewers Palin as Only a Woman Can
  
  Globe and Mail | Sep 15, 08 12:51 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Sarah Palin has made John McCain into a punchline, and there’s been no shortage of late-night comedians pointing that out. Unfortunately, they’ve almost all been male. Thank goodness, then, for Tina Fey, Simon Houpt writes in the Globe and Mail . It took Fey, a dead ringer for Palin, to “tackle the jaw dropping jujitsu” of the Republican Party’s feminist turn. More »
- LiLo Blasts 'Homophobe' Palin
  
  E! Online | Sep 15, 08 10:42 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - To the ranks of celebrities unimpressed by John McCain's choice of running mate, add Lindsay Lohan, E! reports. "I really cannot bite my tongue anymore when it comes to Sarah Palin,” she wrote in a joint blog post with girlfriend Samantha Ronson. “Is our country so divided that the Republicans' best hope is a narrow minded, media obsessed homophobe?" More »
- How Market Turmoil Affects Campaign
  
  Politico | Sep 15, 08 9:50 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The crisis on Wall Street will change the shape of the presidential campaign in its final weeks, forcing both sides to adjust their messages and strategies. Mike Allen, in Politico, details four major effects: Neither John McCain nor Barack Obama has talked much, or in detail, about economic plans. No saving that for January 2009 now. More »
- Rove: McCain's Attack Ads Went 'Too Far'
  
  CNN | Sep 15, 08 8:08 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The Democrats have found an unusual ally in attacking the veracity of McCain campaign ads: Karl Rove. The GOP mastermind criticized McCain’s advertising, saying he had gone “too far” and that criticism of Barack Obama didn’t pass the “100% truth test,” CNN reports. Speaking of both campaigns on Fox News, Rove said, “There ought to be an adult who says, ‘Do we really need to go that far in this ad?'” More »
- Cindy McCain Blasts View After Grilling
  
  ABC News | Sep 15, 08 2:52 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Newspapers and TV shows like The View are out of sync with the average American’s political beliefs, wannabe first lady Cindy McCain has declared. She blasted the media the day after she and hubby John McCain were grilled on The View about misleading campaign ads and the undisclosed number of homes the McCains own, reports ABC. More »
- Why McCain Longs for 19th Century Fuels
  
  New York Times | Sep 14, 08 3:00 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Why are Republicans chanting "drill, baby, drill," a call for an outdated, 19th-century technology like fossil fuels? Because they are turning every political debate into a cultural "wedge Issue," Thomas Friedman writes in the New York Times —"including even energy policy, no matter how stupid it makes the voters and no matter how much it might weaken America." More »
- 5 Reasons Mac Is Now Ahead
  
  Politico | Sep 14, 08 11:53 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Barack Obama's juggernaut rose on a (really) unpopular Republican presidency, an unpopular war, and a lousy economy. So why is John McCain suddenly ahead in the polls? Politico tracks five trends that have thrown the Democrats for a loop: McCain successfully established himself as a change agent, eroding Obama’s central brand Sarah Palin gives disenchanted Republicans someone to fervently cheer for More »
- Oops! Palin Didn't Visit Iraq After All
  
  Boston Globe | Sep 14, 08 11:10 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Contrary to earlier claims by campaign aides, Sarah Palin has never visited Iraq, a spokesman has conceded. The Alaska governor visited state troops in Kuwait and Germany and also stopped in Ireland last year. But she did not cross the Kuwait border into Iraq as previously claimed—and Ireland was just a refueling stop, aides have told the Boston Globe . More »