After having run a lackluster Presidential campaign that disappointed all who wanted to support him–and not just by the way it turned out–the Senator from Arizona is returning to what he does best; being a political gadfly: Sen. John McCain took his most direct shot at President Barack Obama since the presidential campaign on Friday morning, using a Senate floor speech to criticize the president | Read More »
John McCain and Joe Lieberman have written a very good editorial on Iraq policy, in which they point out that thanks to the implementation of the surge and the counterinsurgency strategy–again, let us note that the President-elect and Vice President-elect opposed both of these policies and have not yet admitted error–there is an opportunity for bipartisan consensus to be created at long last when it | Read More »
Andrew Sullivan quotes from General Barry McCafferty, who has just come back from Iraq and makes the following observation: “The bottom line,” McCaffrey writes, “is a dramatic and growing momentum for economic and security stability which is unlikely to be reversible. I would not characterize the situation as fragile.” Sullivan responds: He was there; I’ve never been. But I wonder if he’s right. I sure | Read More »
So, how many other news organizations find themselves in the position that the Washington Post is in? Probably quite a few: The Post provided a lot of good campaign coverage, but readers have been consistently critical of the lack of probing issues coverage and what they saw as a tilt toward Democrat Barack Obama. My surveys, which ended on Election Day, show that they are | Read More »
So, how many other news organizations find themselves in the position that the Washington Post is in? Probably quite a few: The Post provided a lot of good campaign coverage, but readers have been consistently critical of the lack of probing issues coverage and what they saw as a tilt toward Democrat Barack Obama. My surveys, which ended on Election Day, show that they are | Read More »
When you vote tomorrow, vote to affirm that the surge and the counterinsurgency strategy in Iraq worked and should not be short circuited. Vote to remind a certain Presidential candidate that he and his surrogates can’t get away with the claim that they only intend to raise taxes on the rich. Vote against bankrupting the coal industry. Vote for free trade instead of voting for | Read More »
But let us not forget about the existence of various McCainocrats.
Rasmussen: The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows Barack Obama attracting 50% of the vote nationwide while John McCain earns 47%. This is the first time McCain has been within three points of Obama in more than a month and the first time his support has topped 46% since September 24 (see trends). One percent (1%) of voters prefer a third-party option | Read More »
Indisputably, it is McCain. And indisputably, that is to McCain’s credit. In tough economic times, this consideration should factor mightily in the voting booth. Or do people now think that Smoot-Hawley was a good idea to embrace during an economic slowdown?
Link: The home of a Central Florida Republican headquarters manager was shot up and damaged over his support of Sen. John McCain, the man told police. Rog Coverely said several pellets pierced his Longwood home. Coverely showed several spiderwebbed-holes in the front windows of his home. The Republican manager said he is convinced he was targeted because of new McCain signs he added around his | Read More »
And John McCain continues to hang around: The presidential race tightened after the final debate, with John McCain gaining among whites and people earning less than $50,000, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll that shows McCain and Barack Obama essentially running even among likely voters in the election homestretch. The poll, which found Obama at 44 percent and McCain at 43 percent, supports what some | Read More »
Behold. Now, of course, there should be significant pressure placed on the Obama campaign to withdraw the ad.
Over at the self-styled “Reality-Based Community,” back on July 21 of this year, blogger Jonathan Zasloff had this to say about reports that New Yorker writer Ryan Lizza got banned from the Obama campaign plane for having supposedly written a “distinctly unflattering” story about Obama (you can find the story here and it is hardly “unflattering”). Being an Obama fan, Zasloff went ahead and celebrated | Read More »
Behold: With two weeks and one day until election day, a new national poll of likely voters suggests the race for the White House may be tightening up. In a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Monday, 51 percent of likely voters questioned Friday through Sunday back Barack Obama for president, with 46 percent supporting John McCain. That 5 point advantage for Senator Obama, D-Illinois, is | Read More »
Reasons? He likes the “principle” of “net neutrality” and he also likes the idea of “sav[ing] money on lobbying fees” by having a President who will respond to Cerf’s every desire. Don’t believe me? Read this. I guess it is true what they say. Barack Obama will run the lobbyists out of Washington. There is, after all, no need for middlemen to occupy the space | Read More »
Clive Crook is puzzled that John McCain and his campaign have not properly positioned themselves in the argument concerning tax policy. In pointing out the McCain campaign’s many communications errors concerning this issue, Crook takes the time to illustrate the fact that McCain’s tax policies are much better for Americans than are Obama’s: Here is a fact you might not have noticed. It certainly seems | Read More »
It comes as no surprise to anyone who has been paying attention to the Presidential campaign that Colin Powell has endorsed Barack Obama for President. When Powell refrained from making an endorsement early on in the Presidential campaign season, it became clear–or should have become clear–that Powell would wait until the moment when he believed he could maximize the damage to the McCain campaign by | Read More »
So . . . take a look at this: There are allegations of voter fraud, as a Dougherty County family claims the vote of a mentally challenged relative was stolen. They say the adult day rehab program where Jack Justice attends took him to vote, without the family’s permission. What’s worse is Justice says the person helping him wouldn’t cast the ballot for his choice | Read More »
See here: A Los Angeles Times-Bloomberg poll this week shows the Illinois senator leading by nine points, while a Pew Research Center survey gives him a seven-point lead. But an Investor’s Business Daily-TIPP poll shows Sen. Obama with a nearly four-point advantage. Recent polls by Rasmussen Reports and Zogby International show Sen. Obama leading by four and five points, respectively. One Gallup poll shows the | Read More »
I was going to write up something defending school choice from the attacks leveled against it by Barack Obama last night, but I see that Andrew Coulson and Neal McCluskey have dealt with school choice and education policy issues at length in posts today. So I am glad to refer you to them. As both Coulson and McCluskey note, while school choice is excellent and | Read More »
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