If you were watching MSNBC moments ago, you may have noticed some Olympic-class logical contortions performed by Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s spokeswoman, Meg Stapleton.
Norah O’Donnell asked Stapleton to explain why, when Palin was asked to name a Supreme Court decision she disagrees with, she didn’t simply point to the More…
The McCain campaign has had a difficult time spinning Sen. John McCain’s recent slide in major national and battleground polls. The best strategy it has been able to come up with seems to be “deny, deny, deny” the accuracy of the More…
At the very moment that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney was hosting a McCain campaign conference call with reporters to hype Sen. John McCain’s chances for flipping Michigan from blue to red in November, Politico’s Jonathan Martin was readying this report:
John McCain is pulling out of
Who cares about bipartisanship anymore?
The public has soured on both parties, and Congress has its lowest approval ratings in history. (See: Backlash, Bailout.) Yet the presidential candidates are still tussling over who is truly bipartisan.
On Thursday afternoon, Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton went after Sen. John McCain’s bipartisan More…
La Crosse, WISC. — Watching Sen. Barack Obama’s rally here this morning, I noticed that while his surrogates attacked the Republican nominee, Obama largely avoided the word “McCain.” Direct partisan attacks were totally absent from his address, a bipartisan call for action on the financial system bailout, as others More…
LA CROSSE, Wisc.– Sen. Barack Obama didn’t spend much time in this small town Wednesday, but the locals will keep drinking Obama cocktails long after the Democratic presidential nominee has gone.
There are more bars per capita in La Crosse than most U.S. cities, according to locals and web More…
You know it’s going to be a heated election when a state attorney general sues his own state agency for not cracking down on voter fraud. But that’s just what’s happened in Wisconsin. It’s indicative of the kinds of legal challenges now being brought in hotly contested states around the More…
FREDRICKSBURG, Va.– Sen. Barack Obama is not looking back. In a flurry of campaign activity since Friday’s debate, the Democratic presidential nominee hit several large rallies, paired up with Sen. Joe Biden, his running mate, for two joint events, delivered a keynote address to a Congressional Black Caucus gala, sat More…
For a man who had pressed for a series of town hall debates across the country in which he, the Republican nominee for president and his Democratic rival would travel the country like Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, Sen. John McCain enters tonight’s debate as a battered candidate whose campaign More…
In the wake of the largest financial crisis since the Great Depression, Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama have scrambled to develop effective responses. Even as they take pot shots at each other, both nominees have weathered criticism from the punditocracy for not advancing specific blueprints for stabilizing Wall More…
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