Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, who has recently been heralded by conservative pundits who regret his early departure from the GOP presidential race, told MSNBC Thursday that he won’t accept a vice presidential position.
Maricopa County (Ariz.) Sheriff Joe Arpaio tweeted this morning that he’d met with Vice President Joe Biden, who was in Phoenix fundraising for Democratic members of Congress who could face tough Republican challengers in 2010. Biden was also touting the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Curiously, More…
Jonathan Martin plugged this speech from A.B. Culvahouse, the head of Sen. John McCain’s 2008 vice presidential vetting project, and it was a fascinating look into how such decisions are made. Point one: Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) was seriously enough considered by McCain for the vetters to look into More…
President Obama has promised a multi-pronged approach to a greener future, but with legislation to reduce carbon emissions now on hold, energy efficiency measures have become the focus of the administration’s environmental efforts.
Following yesterday’s revelation that cap-and-trade legislation would not be included in the fiscal year 2010 budget, More…
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin apparently caught her staff by surprise last month when she told NBC’s Brian Williams she would release her medical records to the public.
With the records still unreleased this week, and no indication from the McCain campaign that they would be forthcoming, several More…
With a new CBS/New York Times poll finding that 59 percent of registered voters don’t think Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is ready to be vice president, one of Sen. John McCain’s most prominent supporters is publicly saying what much of the rest of the country seems to More…
TOLEDO, Ohio — The McCain camp has pushed back hard on the notion that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is operating independently from the senator’s campaign — or, in the colorful parlance of a typically unnamed staffer, “gone rogue.”
Having observed the McCain campaign for almost two years, I’m inclined to More…
On the campaign trail with Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, TWI’s Laura McGann explains the underlying motive behind the GOP vice presidential nominee’s strong support for special-needs children: a coded push against abortion.
Laura traces Palin’s history of opposition to abortion and ties it to what has become one of her More…
After several days of internecine finger-pointing and name-calling within the McCain campaign, Politico’s Mike Allen reports that an adviser in the McCain faction stepped up the attack on Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s faction. From today’s edition of The Playbook:
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Increasingly incensed at being shunted to the media sidelines while his Republican counterpart’s every utterance makes global news, Sen. Joe Biden, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, has clearly decided to fight fire with fire.
“The current world economic crisis has come about because people keep dropping quarters that roll away and More…
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