Posts by Gary Spiecker

It’s become a staple of the election post mortems that Sen. John McCain’s response to the financial crisis, which began Sept. 13 when Lehman Bros. filed for bankruptcy protection, was the chief cause of his defeat.
But over at the Monkey Cage, a gathering place for political scientists, a graph depicting average poll trendlines since Sen. [...]

The McCain campaign concedes that Sen. John McCain isn’t going to win Philadelphia, according to TWI correspondent Anna Marie Cox. But if he can win in the suburbs, who knows? Read her report here:

TWI correspondent Ana Marie Cox, on the McCain campaign trail, reports that the strangest thing about Sen. John McCain’s rally in Columbus, Ohio, was California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s riff on prison. Read about it here.