-
New York Times
|
Aug 25, 08 11:50 AM CDT
(Newser) -
Is Madonna using her Sticky & Sweet world tour to strike back at John McCain’s celebrity ad? During a remix of “Like a Prayer,” a screen flashes images of destruction followed by shots of Hitler, Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe, and then McCain, reports the New York Times . Barack Obama makes a cameo in another montage including images of Gandhi, John Lennon, and Al Gore.
More »
-
-
New York Times
|
Aug 23, 08 7:13 AM CDT
(Newser) -
John McCain is one of the wealthiest men in the Senate, but the McCain fortune is less open to scrutiny than that of most lawmakers, the New York Times reports, since the vast bulk of it remains solely in the name of wife Cindy. She has a controlling stake in the privately held beer distribution company inherited from her father, which nets her an estimated $5 million a year, and her investments carry few disclosure requirements.
More »
-
Washington Post
|
Aug 22, 08 12:10 PM CDT
(Newser) -
A mystery called John McCain lurks at the heart of the presidential race, Eugene Robinson writes in the Washington Post . The candidate remains "undefined" and "full of contradictions," Robinson writes. In fact, with McCain's bizarre admission that he isn't sure how many houses he has, "there are some basic things about McCain that apparently even McCain doesn't know."
More »
-
Reuters
|
Aug 20, 08 8:35 AM CDT
(Newser) -
John McCain has erased Barack Obama’s 7-point July advantage to take a 46%-41% lead in the latest Reuters/Zogby poll, Reuters reports. McCain has turned around a perceived weakness on economy to now be favored by a 9% margin on the economy. The poll was taken Thursday through Saturday, as Obama was finishing a weeklong Hawaiian vacation that ceded the political stage to McCain.
More »
-
-
Politico
|
Aug 19, 08 8:00 AM CDT
(Newser) -
John McCain will name his VP running mate at a huge Ohio rally on Aug. 29—the senator’s 72nd birthday and a day after the Democratic convention, Politico reports. McCain won’t finalize his choice—widely considered by GOP experts to be Mitt Romney or Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty—until Obama announces his own running mate.
More »
-
Time
|
Aug 15, 08 5:09 PM CDT
(Newser) -
John McCain's attack ads on the "biggest celebrity in the world" depend on Americans loving to hate stars more than they admire them, writes James Poniewozik in Time . If the tactic works, it will shift Barack Obama’s best asset into a Republican secret weapon—but "snark aside, Americans still like celebrities." Obama’s job is now to define what kind of celebrity he is going to be.
More »
-
New Republic
|
Aug 7, 08 2:24 PM CDT
(Newser) -
Barack Obama is going negative on John McCain, something he never did in the primary race against Hillary Clinton. But that doesn’t mean he’s abandoning a winning strategy. The current race is worlds apart from his tête-à-tête with Clinton, Noam Scheiber writes in the New Republic . For one, it’s “easier to go negative on an old white guy.”
More »
-
Huffington Post
|
Aug 4, 08 2:36 AM CDT
(Newser) -
Paris Hilton's mom has written a scathing response to John McCain's ad comparing Barack Obama's popularity with the tabloid celebrity of Paris Hilton . McCain campaign contributor Kathy Hilton rips the ad as a waste of time and money in a blog in the Huffington Post.
More »
-
Politico
|
Aug 3, 08 5:32 AM CDT
(Newser) -
John McCain is considering Virginia congressman Eric Cantor for the vice-presidential slot on his ticket, according to a campaign insider. As Barack Obama vets Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine as a possible No. 2, the state could turn into a vice-presidential battleground, Politico reports. Cantor, who has been a champion McCain fundraiser, is a leading Jewish Republican and fiscal conservative who could add some spice to the campaign.
More »
-
New York Times
|
Aug 2, 08 2:13 PM CDT
(Newser) -
Race has once again crept into the presidential race this week, and Barack Obama did his best to ignore it, the New York Times reports. John McCain’s campaign accused Obama of “playing the race card…from the bottom of the deck” when the Dem said McCain might attack him because he “doesn’t look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills.” But Obama resisted retaliating, trying to prevent a racial firefight.
More »
-
Time
|
Aug 1, 08 5:53 PM CDT
(Newser) -
A new Obama campaign memo obtained by Time documents Republican disapproval of the McCain camp’s recent tactics. Some highlights: Pat Buchanan on the commercial juxtaposing Obama, Britney Spears, and Paris Hilton: "Look, this is not an effective ad.” Ed Rollins: “John needs to be the deliberate, experienced veteran and not the grumpy old man.”
More »
-
Wall Street Journal
|
Aug 1, 08 4:42 PM CDT
(Newser) -
No matter how long the 2008 campaign drags on, we'll never see Barack Obama as we did Bill Clinton in 1992: drenched in sweat and jogging into a McDonald's. Obama's fit—skinny, even—and a bit of a gym rat. The Wall Street Journal takes a look at the notion of presidential fitness and wonders if the typical American might find a "beanpole guy," as one voter described him, a little alienating.
More »
-
Politico
|
Aug 1, 08 2:00 PM CDT
(Newser) -
Barack Obama unvield an "emergency" plan for the economy today that includes $1,000 rebates for families or $500 for individuals to defray rising energy costs, Politico reports. The money would come in part from "windfall profits from Big Oil," the campaign says. Obama would pump another $50 billion into state governments and the national infrastructure to repair roads, bridges, and schools.
More »
-
Politico
|
Aug 1, 08 12:07 PM CDT
(Newser) -
John McCain’s policy cupboards are unusually bare for a presidential candidate, while his rival’s are unusually well stocked, Politico reports. McCain, for example, describes Social Security as "an absolute disgrace" but offers scant details for reforming it. "He has not offered very much in specifics that I have seen," said a budget analyst at the conservative Heritage Foundation.
More »
-
Economist
|
Aug 1, 08 11:14 AM CDT
(Newser) -
Ohio is the ultimate swing state: Since 1960 no president has been elected without winning its electoral votes, and in 2004, by the narrowest of margins, it delivered George W. Bush a second term. But this time around, Democrats are confident of their chances, the Economist reports. The state party has been rejuvenated after a long spell in the political wilderness.
More »
-
Los Angeles Times
|
Aug 1, 08 10:05 AM CDT
(Newser) -
Tinseltown is ticked over John McCain’s recent ad likening Barack Obama to Britney Spears—and to Paris Hilton, whose parents have donated the maximum to the senator's campaign. The problem isn't just lo