Phil Gramm took this trip last week after giving the wrong answer about the state of the economy. The former senator from Texas and top economic adviser to John McCain declared that the country was experiencing merely a "mental recession"
John McCain's birthplace has given rise to one of the more vexing questions of the campaign season: If McCain wasn't physically born in the United States, can he be president?
National columnists and pundits have, so far, given McCain a "free pass" on the attempted suicide. Would the other presidential candidates be treated with the same indifference if they had an attempted suicide in their biographies?
"I don't think [McCain] can appease the hard-core xenophobes and convince the Latinos he is standing up for them at the same time, I think he has to pick a side and make it clear. Is he going after the votes of the xenophobes?" said Cecilia Munoz,
Mr. Band keeps close track of the past allies and beneficiaries of the Clintons who supported Mr. Obama's campaign, three Clinton associates and campaign officials said. Indeed, he is widely known as a member of the Clinton inner circle whose memory
In what Wonkette calls "the most tragically awkward video in the history of YouTube," a dazed McCain campaign manager Rick Davis stares goggle-eyed at off-screen cue cards, robotically making a call for Americans to stalk their neighbors with video cam
With key medical marijuana ballot initiatives likely to pass, and a more pot-friendly majority in Congress, there is room for optimism.
You have to hand it to the Republican National Committee: Those guys really know how to pick the wrong fight.
John McCain is getting much more than President Bush's endorsement and fundraising help for his campaign. He's getting Bush's staff. Mehlman and Rove are now informally advising the campaign.
"This is offensive, and I think it's disappointing...because John McCain always says 'I am not going to run that kind of politics,' and to engage in that kind of smear is unfortunate, particularly because my policy toward Hamas has been no different than
The right wing noise machine is trying to drown out the meatier charge that Mad Dog "Keating 5″ McCain is as corrupt a politician as they come. Forget the youthful indescretion, keep you eye on the prize.
McCain has missed 57 percent of Senate votes this session, being absent or voting "present" for 8 out of 10 children-related votes. McCain voted "yes" to increase the minimum wage; his only other vote was voting "no" on SCHIP reauthorization on 8-2-2007
The poll shows Obama ahead of Republican nominee John McCain by a substantial margin, 53-36. A head-to-head match between McCain and Hillary Clinton shows McCain is the preferred choice, 49-40.
