Archive for September, 2008
McCain-Palin responds to “misleading” stem cell charges
A new McCain-Palin radio ad is out this morning seeking to push back against “misleading” Obama attacks on stem cell research and whether or not McCain truly supports the increasingly popular medical research to harness their benefits.
The McCain ad points out that the Obama campaign’s ads attacking McCain over stem cell opposition are based on […]
Presidential Debate #1: Liveblog
We’re not in Oxford, but they are…
9:02 PM ET - Jim Lehrer welcomes us and explains the ground rules. He makes it clear that the economy will be heavily discussed. Also, exchanges between the candidates are encouraged.
9:03 - McCain and Obama walk onto the barren stage, occupied by only two podiums.
9:04 - Lehrer kicks off […]
Presidential Debate #1: A Preview
Leave it to the current wild and wacky presidential contest and the many crises the U.S. is juggling to inject themselves into the normally staid and tightly scheduled world of presidential debates. It’s the first one up and we’ve already had one candidate call for a bipartisan cancellation and then almost do a unilateral no-show, […]
Obama team sets debate expectations - for McCain
Always entertaining to watch the campaigns set their opponents up for supreme failure before these debates. It happened in the primaries, now it’s time for the real deal.
Tonight’s showdown in Oxford features a strange mix of being centered on foreign policy - a McCain strength - but with voter attention and more than a few […]
Did McCain (help) kill the bailout and bipartisanship?
His old enemies and anti-bailout crusaders in the House GOP love him right now, that’s for sure. But Dan Balz delves deeper into McCain’s bizarre role in the negotiations at the White House yesterday in a must-read piece for WashingtonPost.com.
On the basis of little new public information, McCain decided enough progress had been made overnight […]
McCain decides to participate in tonight’s debate
That the official press release from the McCain campaign didn’t come in until almost Noon makes you realize how close we were to having a scrubbed Oxford debate. That the debate organizers with the official debate commission were prepared to pull the plug by 5 PM today hits even harder.
But McCain did come to his […]
Both candidates pledge to work for bailout, but is damage already done?
…To McCain, that is.
Can’t say enough what a confusing and utterly jumbled week this has been in the campaign, with the candidates vying for advantages with just over a month to go while trying to handle a changing financial crisis at the same time. There was yesterday’s unprecedented meeting with both candidates and President Bush […]
McCain TV: Two new ads, two different directions
Is the McCain campaign ready to lay off the disturbing and factually deficient sleaze in their TV ads attacking Obama? You can answer that question either way depending on which new ad you choose to view from McCain. But should we look at even one clean yet punishing blow landed on Obama without cheap tricks […]
New battleground polls finds McCain bounce nowhere in sight, Obama steady
Let’s hope that all of us, pundits and junkies alike, remember that fickle nature of the ‘08 polling bounces when we look to the glorious post-convention period for 2012 and say that yes, those all-important “bounces” will tell us the outcome. It’s garbage. This year we’ve had both candidates run out to double-digit gains immediately […]
The Buzz
Back and better than ever…
This is a week that will be a mere sideshow leading up to the biggest event of this presidential campaign so far; Friday night’s debate in Mississippi. The jockeying for swing voters, the battleground states tours, the lightning-fast nasty ad attacks - all have some sort of corresponding impact. But look […]
