Archive for September, 2008
Battleground polls: Obama and McCain gains mean a bevy of ties
Oh, joy! CNN/Time/Opinion Research have released the latest batch of battleground polls, the first since McCain’s combined convention/Palin bounce has showed signs of abating. What are the results for the five states covered in the release? Well, it’s tighter than a laundered turtleneck…(Forgive us for that)
The numbers are close and the trends are going in […]
McCain operatives now controlling Palin’s image, record
It’s not just hordes of Democrats and Obama supporters flocking to Alaska to pore through the personal past and governmental record of Sarah Palin. The McCain campaign has sent their own operatives as well as Republican lawyers to AK in an effort to both head off any embarrassing discoveries by the Dems as well as […]
McCain TV: “Foundation” tries to cover gaffe and slam Obama in same ad
Full-on damage control mode from the McCain campaign as they try to explain away the GOP nominee’s infamous comment about the economy’s “strong fundamentals” in the midst of devastating news from Wall Street and continued economic struggles across the country. The storyline the campaign wants voters and the media to believe is that McCain was […]
The Buzz
The financial market meltdown and worries on Wall Street are dominating the presidential campaign for a second straight day. The instant shift on the trail and in the news away from McCain-friendly topics like Sarah Palin and his own surge in the polls and towards straight-up economic “fundamentals” has given Obama and his campaign the […]
McCain TV: Tackling crisis on Wall Street with “Enough Is Enough”
The latest national ad from the McCain campaign has John McCain himself directly talking to voters about the faltering economy and financial crisis wrecking Wall Street.
In the ad, titled “Enough Is Enough,” McCain touches on “reform” for Wall Street and keeping American jobs “safe.
This message is in contrast to McCain’s earlier stump speeches and TV […]
John McCain: BlackBerry inventor
We are practically offline today (McCain in our state today and Obama and Palin coming later this week makes us busy…), but we had to share what is truly an entertaining story from the almighty Jonathan Martin at Politico.
Asked what work John McCain did as chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee that helped him understand […]
Palin sought $453 million in Alaska earmarks
Contradicting the McCain campaign’s over-hyped rhetoric that Sarah Palin “never” sought earmarks for Alaska, the Wall Street Journal finds that she has actually requested nearly $500 million in Congressional earmarks for her state during her less than two year tenure as Governor.
The WSJ goes through a few of the projects that Palin has asked congress […]
Obama TV: McCain running “truth be damned” campaign
This is the hardest hit yet on McCain from an increasingly angry Obama campaign. Seizing on what could be the whispers of a backlash from the media and swing voters to McCain’s less than “honest” ads, the Obama camp has released a biting TV spot that takes dead aim at what they see as a […]
Did McCain flub economy’s “strong fundamentals”?
John McCain was in Jacksonville, FL this morning where he addressed supporters and made comments on the burgeoning economic and financial crisis pummeling Wall Street and Main Street, admitting in Florida and in a new campaign that there is a “crisis” and that Americans are going through “very difficult times.”
But a potentially embarrassing remark and […]
McCain TV: Instant reaction to economic “Crisis”
The McCain campaign reacted fast to the black morning on Wall Street and the fast-moving crisis affecting financial markets. Anxious to stifle accusations of being “out of touch” or that he moved too slowly to address economic issues, McCain released an early statement on the Wall Street mess as well as the TV ad, titled […]
