Jul 24, 2008MCCAIN WATCH: MCCAIN CAMPAIGN FLAGS AS INCOME INEQUALITY RISES
Yesterday the McCain campaign hit a rough patch as they tried to escape the fallout over McCain's continued gaffes on foreign policy and ongoing coverage of his promise of four more years of failed Bush-McCain policies on Iraq, energy and the economy.In Ohio today, McCain won't be getting...
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Jul 23, 2008MCCAIN WATCH: PLAYING THE BLAME GAME
This week the McCain campaign is spinning furiously, trying to place the blame for rising gas prices anywhere but where it belongs - on Washington insiders like McCain. But McCain can't distract from the fact that he's offering more of the same failed Bush-McCain policies responsible for...
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Jul 22, 2008MCCAIN WATCH: THE COST OF WAR AND THE IMPACT ON THE ECONOMY
It's only Tuesday, but John McCain is already off to yet another bad week. After spending yesterday explaining how he confused Iraq and Afghanistan and watching the Iraqi leadership reject his vision for the future of Iraq, McCain today is traveling to two states that highlight the economic...
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Jul 21, 2008MCCAIN WATCH: THE ECONOMY: IF YOU LIKE THE BUSH ECONOMY, HIRE MCCAIN
After a week in which John McCain received more criticism for his ties to top economic advisor Phil Gramm, who echoed Senator McCain's sentiments that America's economic problems were "psychological" by saying we are in a "mental recession," McCain is in Maine today,...
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Jul 18, 2008DNC Memo: Week Two of the Relaunch - More McCain Misfires
Two weeks into the latest "relaunch" of his campaign and it's more of the same for John McCain: more of the same bad news, bad reviews and campaign chaos. While the elevation of Steve Schmidt was supposed to tighten McCain's message and organization, McCain was under fire from...
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Jul 23, 2008 Democrats Ask Labor to Forgo 'Secret Rule'
Congressional leaders demanded yesterday that the Labor Department withdraw an eleventh-hour rule proposal that would make it more difficult to set industry limits on the amount of dangerous chemicals that U.S. workers are exposed to on the job.
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Jul 23, 2008 Obama Working to Ensure Jewish Vote
Before embarking on a sprawling international trip that would take him to seven countries, two continents and two war zones, Sen. Barack Obama and his campaign staff fixated on a speck on the globe that is slightly smaller than New Jersey: Israel.
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Jul 23, 2008 The Trail
Barack Obama has bought $5 million in national advertising on NBC and its cable channels during their broadcast of the Olympic Games, the network said Wednesday night.
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Jul 23, 2008 Berlin Rally Is Off-Limits for Embassy Workers
The U.S. Embassy in Berlin has instructed Foreign Service personnel stationed there not to attend Sen. Barack Obama's public rally today, which the State Department this week labeled a "partisan political activity" prohibited under its regulations for those serving overseas.
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Jul 23, 2008 McCain Still Waiting for His Turn at Good Luck
It seemed like a great way to counter Obamamania. Sen. John McCain would board a helicopter in New Orleans today, skim quickly over the Gulf of Mexico and land on an oil rig -- a made-for-TV moment to highlight his call for offshore drilling, an issue that Republicans believe will be a big...
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