McCain
In Georgia, Palin Stumps For Chambliss
Most folks around the country have had a few privileged weeks to recover from the drone of election-year politics. Not in Georgia, where tomorrow’s run-off vote will decide whether one-term GOP Sen. Saxby Chambliss can make it two. And the big guns are out — at least on the Republican side.
Sen. John McCain visited the [...]
McCain Wild About Napolitano at Homeland Security
Marc Ambinder reports Sen. John McCain spoke with Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano to congratulate her on making it to the top of President-elect Barack Obama’s list to head the Department of Homeland Security. McCain then released this statement:
Sanders to Lieberman: You Would Choose Power Over Party?
From Politico: It seems that Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.) had some choice words for fellow Independent Sen. Joe Lieberman (Conn.) during yesterday’s closed-door discussion over how Democrats would punish Lieberman for his alacritous promotion of John McCain through the presidential campaign.
Lieberman had threatened to defect to the Republican Party if Democrats pulled him from his [...]
With McCain Running for Re-election, What to do with Napolitano?
Sen. John McCain has decided to run for re-election in 2010, reports Roll Call (subscription).
From PolitickerAZ.com:
Welcome Back Lieberman
The Connecticut independent’s support for the Iraq war and his tireless campaigning for McCain made a lot of enemies in his former party. But when Democrats are close to a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, bygones will be bygones.
Obama, McCain Vow ‘New Era of Reform’
Following their high-profile meeting today in Chicago, President-elect Barack Obama and his former rival, Sen. John McCain, issued this statement:
Obama Won McCain’s Home Precinct by 13 Points
Not to beat a dead horse, but I saw this item buried in The Arizona Republic yesterday.
John McCain may have won Arizona by nine points over Barack Obama, but he lost his home precinct. Election data from Maricopa County shows that the state’s very own presidential nominee lost to Obama by 13 points in McCain’s [...]
GOP Files Suit Challenging McCain’s Signature Act
Republican party officials filed a federal lawsuit on Thursday seeking to overturn the ban on “soft money,” or unlimited campaign contributions, that is the primary law their presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain, was famous for.
As the Wall Street Journal reports today, the Republicans, after losing the presidency to a Democratic candidate who’d received an unprecedented [...]
Obama and McCain, Together Again
If you’ve been suffering withdrawals from seeing President-elect Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain together in news reports in the last week, you’re in luck! The Obama-Biden transition team announced today that the two former rivals are scheduled to take a meeting Monday in Chicago. Transition spokesperson Stephanie Cutter released the following statement:
In Defense of Protective Poolers
Much fun has been made at the expense of the “pool reports” being sent out by the Obama-Biden transition team on behalf of the journalists covering President-elect Barack Obama.
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow riffed at length last night about the absurdity of the minute details present in the reports, which note when he goes to the gym, [...]
