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Sajaa Ahmed and Alexandra Stein / April 2, 2008 4:31 am
...just 7%, according to the same poll. Despite the decline, there is still a vocal minority of Muslim voters. Dr. Sayeed Mohammed is still an adamant supporter of the Republican Party, and argues that by voting for Senator John McCain, his vote will go to a candidate with a reasonable immigration stance and policy experience. Publicity surrounding Senator McCain’s adoption of a daughter from Muslim Bangladesh has provoked both praise and consternat...
Jamie Boothe / March 27, 2012 1:00 pm
There has been much buzz recently regarding who the GOP nominee will choose as a running mate, and rightfully so; as John McCain showed in 2008, the vice presidential pick can make or break a candidacy. In McCain’s case, even though Sarah Palin energized a formerly unenthusiastic base, her presence in the race ultimately led to Barack Obama winning in a landslide because the discussion became almost solely about Palin and her flaws, rather than...
Tracy Chung / May 27, 2008 9:15 pm
...ing in the working population will provide Americans with economic prosperity. What the two candidates dispute is the role that the federal government should play as an intermediary force. Meanwhile, Republican candidate John McCain believes in a business-as-usual strategy that only seeks to tweak some of the existing problems of healthcare. Senator Clinton’s proposed plan for nationalized healthcare is the most specific, and lays the foundation...
Nick Kelly / December 7, 2008 8:56 pm
Although I’d read about how Obama —and to a lesser extent McCain — had inspired and mobilized a truly astounding number of volunteers, when I visited Obama’s local campaign office in New Hampshire a few days before the 2008 election, I couldn’t help but be over-whelmed by their energy and sense of urgency. “You can sleep after election day,” I heard one volunteer say, and this battle cry seemed to capture a truth of the 2008 presidential campaig...
Jamie Boothe / May 20, 2012 10:52 pm
In the 2008 election, Senator McCain frequently criticized then-Senator Obama for his connection to, among other unsavory figures, the fiery and controversial Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Recently, a pro-Republican Super PAC announced their plan to dig up the Wright card and use it against Obama in election advertisements. However, using Wright in any way to attack Obama, or even mentioning Wright at all, would be about the most foolish thing eithe...
Sam Rosenfeld / December 2, 2003 3:23 pm
...idea of this. They hate the idea of citizens working with their government to solve things.” It is true that the popular success of AmeriCorps helped to change many minds over the last decade. Most dramatically, Senator John McCain (R-AZ) morphed from an initial opponent into one of its fiercest supporters—and a co-sponsor, over the last two years, of a bill that would quintuple the number of available AmeriCorps positions to 250,000 (the White...
Tommaso Verderame / August 14, 2012 5:26 pm
From Wikimedia Commons Last week, John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and Joe Lieberman coauthored an op-ed that advocates that the United States arm Syria’s rebels. They argued that Syria’s rebels are not on a level playing field – al-Assad has a modern army and friends like Russia and China – and that, in the long run, the U.S. is in the best position if it curries favor with rebel groups now. For similar reasons, I agree. The senators coyly point...
Jamie Boothe / July 23, 2012 10:14 am
...m, while painting him as a money-grabbing corporate tyrant in a prolonged character assassination campaign is not. Eventually, negative attacks begin to backfire, particularly if they hone in on personal history details. John McCain realized this too late in 2008: After months of brazen attacks regarding Obama’s former pastor and his (insignificant) relations with former members of the Weather Underground, the public simply became sick of the neg...
Kenneth Zauderer / July 17, 2012 1:28 pm
...rs, appeal to certain key demographics, and complement the person at the head of the ticket. All of these objectives are essential to the presumptive Republican nominee’s effort to win the White House. But due to Senator John McCain’s imprudent choice in the last contest, Sarah Palin, the selection this time around will be scrutinized even closer than it has been in the past. As he has stressed over and over again in interviews, Romney will choos...
CPR / October 24, 2011 2:52 am
Illustration by Kaela Chambers In 2010, the Supreme Court in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission held that corporations and unions could not be prohibited from broadcasting electioneering communications (ads that mention a candidate) within 60 days of a general election or 30 days of a primary, which had previously been the restriction of the McCain-Feingold Act since 2002. What does this mean for the way campaigns and policymaking a...
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