John McCain
CNN
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Thursday, 29 October 2009
America must succeed in Afghanistan as a matter of national security, writes Republican senator and former presidential candidate John McCain.
Crikey
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Thursday, 15 October 2009
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Travelling through the US, Simon Burrow reports on the battle of Fox News vs. the White House. Has open war broken out between old and new media?
CQ Politics
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Thursday, 20 August 2009
Republican John McCain may have branded himself ‘the maverick’ of Washington, except ever since he didn’t get the top job, he is siding with the Republicans more than ever before.
Vanity Fair
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Sunday, 5 July 2009
Palin’s life has sometimes played out like an unholy amalgam of Desperate Housewives and Northern Exposure, writes Todd S Purdum in a timely profile for August’s Vanity Fair about her future, and what McCain’s staff really thought of her.
Crikey
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Tuesday, 3 March 2009
Former Presidential candidate John McCain has slammed Obama’s $410 billion spending bill, reports Politico.
Crikey
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Tuesday, 18 November 2008
Barack Obama and John McCain have met for the first time since the election. Watch the (awkward) video here.
Crikey
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Wednesday, 12 November 2008
McCain says he doesn’t blame Palin for his loss in his first post-election interview, the Huffington Post reports.
Crikey
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Tuesday, 11 November 2008
Given the prevailing winds at Obama’s back during this campaign that are not going to be there in four years time, Obama can’t afford to rely on merely goodwill to get re-elected in four years time. Morgan Poll Manager Julian McCrann provides the numbers.
Crikey
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Monday, 10 November 2008
The Right is tearing itself apart, writes the Guardian, and Sarah Palin is right in the centre of the melee.
Crikey
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Monday, 10 November 2008
In dreary two party systems like ours electoral gravity tends to even things out, writes Peter Brent.
Crikey
/ Guy Rundle
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Thursday, 6 November 2008
Obama’s achievement before anything has occurred is this: that every vector of power – money, race, media – has been defeated in the US, the declining but still regnant capitol of the world, writes Guy Rundle.
Crikey
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Thursday, 6 November 2008
Politics is less a science than a mysterious art form. Obama has finessed a brilliant victory, but a far from conclusive one, writes Binoy Kampmark.
Crikey
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Thursday, 6 November 2008
Palin Effect: a dramatic move that sends a party’s base into rapturous high fives, and appeals to voters on some level, but still sends the middle ground running to the other candidate, writes Peter Brent.
Crikey
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Wednesday, 5 November 2008
With no strong third party this time, a simple ‘doing of the math’ tells you that if Obama beats McCain by anything more than a few points, he will get over half the vote, writes Peter Brent.
Crikey
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Wednesday, 5 November 2008
Mayor Richard Daley has predicted a million people could turn up, and the space is available on the sprawling lake-side green known as “Chicago’s front porch”, reports Daniel Ziffer from Chicago’s Grant Park.
Crikey
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Wednesday, 5 November 2008
Despite the fantasies of some of the people in those McCain crowds, Barack Obama is neither a Kenyan Saul Alinsky nor a Muslim Bill Ayers but a mainstream American Democrat, writes Jeff Sparrow.
Crikey
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Wednesday, 5 November 2008
Cuban President Fidel Castro has praised Obama as “more intelligent” than McCain, Reuters reports.
Crikey
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Tuesday, 4 November 2008
The crowd at the Obama rally was huge and the mood was upbeat. The undertone of the Palin rally was fear, fear, fear, writes Obama supporter Ebony Bennett.
Crikey
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Tuesday, 4 November 2008
Obama hasn’t won yet, writes Rich Galen at Townhall.
Crikey
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Tuesday, 4 November 2008
The Huffington Post rounds-up all the pundits’ predictions.
Crikey
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Tuesday, 4 November 2008
Obama leads by eight points coming in to the last day of the campaign, writes the Wall Street Journal.
Crikey
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Monday, 3 November 2008
The Republican campaigns we visited were noticeably more subdued, but that’s hardly surprising in a state where the Democrats have held the majority in the state legislature for years, writes Ebony Bennett.
Crikey
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Monday, 3 November 2008
Mathematically, John McCain could still win the election, writes The Guardian.
Crikey
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Monday, 3 November 2008
The amount of polling at this election is phenomenal, but it does not, overall, have Obama in unbeatable territory, writes Peter Brent.
Crikey
/ Bernard Keane
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Monday, 3 November 2008
Barack Obama is a lucky man, writes Bernard Keane.
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