John McCain
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Monday, 3 November 2008
Barack Obama is a lucky man, writes Bernard Keane.
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Monday, 3 November 2008
Ministering to undecided voters is a tough gig, writes Salon.
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Monday, 3 November 2008
Today’s Harper’s Mr Fish cartoon takes a Peanuts look at the McCain campaign.
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Friday, 31 October 2008
That Obama lead of 5.4% doesn’t even begin to tell the full story of just how far McCain is behind, writes Possum Comitatus.
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Friday, 31 October 2008
Talking Points Memo crunch the numbers to see whether McCain is actually making up ground on Obama.
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Friday, 31 October 2008
McCain bussed in over 2500 local school children to fill the crowd at a rally in Ohio yesterday, reports the Huffington Post.
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Friday, 31 October 2008
The media hate landslides, because the suspense of a close election is supposed to sell more newspapers or advertising time, writes Charles Richardson.
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Friday, 31 October 2008
John McCain has been embarrassingly stood-up by Joe the plumber at an Ohio rally, writes the Wall Street Journal.
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Thursday, 30 October 2008
McCain can tap into the Republican and moderate Democratic base in Pennsylvania, writes Pajamas Media.
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Thursday, 30 October 2008
Obama’s lead in the polls has slipped, Talking Points Memo reports, but he still remains ahead.
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Thursday, 30 October 2008
Cultural divisions in America have allowed McCain to stay in the race, writes Howard Fineman at Newsweek.
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Thursday, 30 October 2008
Australia’s longest serving minister for foreign affairs Alexander Downer talks to Business Spectator’s Isabelle Oderberg about the US election.
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Wednesday, 29 October 2008
McCain’s camp is demanding the release of a video of Obama at a party for a Palestinian activist, Politico reports.
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Wednesday, 29 October 2008
Don’t write him off just yet — the Guardian looks at three ways John McCain could still win.
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Wednesday, 29 October 2008
As election day draws closer McCain and Obama are ramping up their campaigns, reports The Wall Street Journal.
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Wednesday, 29 October 2008
Gore Vidal writes on Truthdig: McCain is a “prisoner of the past”.
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Wednesday, 29 October 2008
Both candidates have been campaigning hard this week to win Pennsylvania, the New York Times reports.
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Tuesday, 28 October 2008
Fourty-six per cent of Israelis would vote for John McCain if given the chance, reports Ynetnews.
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Tuesday, 28 October 2008
So far Barack Obama has over two times as many newspaper endorsements as his flagging Republican challenger John McCain, writes Crikey intern Nicholas Yallop.
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Monday, 27 October 2008
McCain really didn’t have the guts to break with the Republican machine and their corporate backers, and strike out for the grassroots support that Obama summoned, writes Guy Rundle.
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Monday, 27 October 2008
Obama and McCain are targeting support in Republican-leaning states, reports the Philadelphia Inquirer.
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Friday, 24 October 2008
The McCain campaign has moved to deflect criticism of Sarah Palin by attacking Barack Obama as a big spender who will raise taxes.
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Friday, 24 October 2008
Behind in the polls with less than two weeks to go, Republican candidate John McCain has come out fighting at a rally in Ohio, writes Dispatch Politics.
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Friday, 24 October 2008
Barack Obama has hit back at a John McCain CNN interview about corporate tax, saying it was a sign that McCain will put ‘Wall Street first, Main Street last, writes CNN.
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Friday, 24 October 2008
Individual state polls may be turning up interesting results, but a look at the overall polls shows little movement over the past week, which is a boon for the poll leader, Barack Obama, writes FiveThirtyEight.
