2004 Hispanic Vote
55% Kerry 44% Bush
2008 Hispanic Vote
67% Obama 31% McCain
The GOP has alienated the fastest growing set of Americans, possibly for a generation.
Si Se Puede.
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The McCain campaign repeats the success they had vetting Sarah Palin with Joe The Plumber. If there is a metaphor for McCain ‘08, thats it.
John McCain seeks to duplicate the chaos of his election effort with his “transition” team.
Let’s see to it that this mess remains a theory.
John McCain is now faced with a campaign consistently lagging behind Sen. Obama. While it is still possible for the polls to tighten as we get closer to election day, he hasn’t led in a single major poll since near the end of September. Even in the polls that have the most favorable turnout models [...]
why the heck McCain and Palin are campaigning in Iowa and Pennsylvania? Colorado, I understand. Florida, I understand. New Hampshire even makes sense. And certainly Ohio. But they’re spending their limited resources in states where poll after poll shows a double digit deficit.
Then again, almost 8 years ago George W. Bush was campaigning in California [...]
The RNC has released a new web video. It is 12 minutes long. It is 12 minutes of Fred Thompson doing his “fake president” act telling us how horrible an Obama win would be.
Its the kind of situation that makes you wonder if someone paid them to take the fall.
On both sides, in numerous forums, I’ve seen people - with mind numbing regularity - talk about how they’ve seen “X” signs in their neighborhoods and that’s so many more than they saw in 2004/2000 etc. It’s an anecdote, and an even worse measure for campaign strength than the already shaky measure of how many [...]
Voting machine keeps switching Obama votes to McCain votes. Does anyone have a single instance of a voting machine erring in favor of a Democrat? In all the years of this issue popping up, I’ve never seen one.
The “real Virginia” crack is leading the local news here. Not good for McCain at all. It’s like the Clinton campaign’s refrain about which states did and didn’t count but far far worse. Virginia was already leaning Obama, this may lock it in.
WUSA Channel 9’s (the CBS affiliate) open to the 11PM news: “If you’re [...]
If Sen. Obama wins, the Republicans are sure to go in civil war mode. With the Democrats, the DLC wing of the party won the first few rounds and that resulted in losses in 2002 and contributed to Sen. Kerry’s loss in 2004. The grassroots (including the netroots) pushed back and that resulted in Dean [...]
Campaigns that aren’t winning usually leak information to the press. Campaigns divide, with one faction seeking to have an upper hand on the other by leaking something damaging to the media. We most recently saw this with Sen. Clinton’s campaign and now it’s John McCain.
Some McCain campaign officials are becoming concerned about the hostility that [...]
As his campaign slips into oblivion, John McCain has adopted the traditional Republican tactic of simply making stuff up, throwing it against the wall and praying to God it sticks and “turns the page” on the economic crisis created by Bush-McCain policies. But the thing is, McCain is on record attacking this very sort of [...]
McCain is now running around muttering that inaction is not an option, which leads me to believe we’re going to get another episode of him acting out. His poll numbers are even worse than before the last round of erratic behavior - so expect the worst.
Senator McCain is 25 years older than Sen. Obama, but they are the ones engaging in school yard tactics. Now they want a do-over for the introduction of Sarah Palin after McCain’s failed time out last week.
One brilliant idea is to put her on Rush Limbaugh’s show. But Limbaugh’s show is largely comprised of those [...]
Trade mission to Russia? There’s no evidence she went on any trade mission to Russia. Maybe she hollered to the Russian guy she can see from her porch.
Gov. Palin, Admiral Stockdale and Dan Quayle salute you for making them look good in retrospect.
So, I wasn’t the only one who noticed something weird with McCain’s left eye. What the heck is going on there?
The McCain campaign makes the unusual step of being bought off in advance by having an inside man in McCain campaign manager Rick Davis.
One of the giant mortgage companies at the heart of the credit crisis paid $15,000 a month to a firm owned by Senator John McCain’s campaign manager from the end of 2005 [...]
That’s right, John McCain’s campaign manager was paid $2 million by Fannie Mae to specifically lobby John McCain. They were trying to fend off regulation and I guess they wanted to curry favor with the self-described “deregulator”.
Then he hired him as his campaign manager.
After his horrible week where America learned that John McCain would be useless in an economic crisis, he decided to try to attack Senator Obama today.
‘Whether it’s a reversal in war, or an economic emergency, he reacts as a politician and not as a leader, seeking an advantage for himself instead of a solution for [...]
That is sure as heck how it sounds. Then again this guy Ed Goeas was Giuliani’s pollster and said that Florida was where Giuliani’s campaign would rebound. If those of you at home check your scorecards, you’ll remember that Giuliani finished a dismal third in that contest.
Via Paul Krugman, comes this awesome bit of wisdom from MaverickTM in the current issue of Contingencies magazine.
Opening up the health insurance market to more vigorous nationwide competition, as we have done over the last decade in banking, would provide more choices of innovative products less burdened by the worst excesses of state-based regulation.
That’s right [...]
John McCain said he would get rid of the FEC chairman to address the economy. It is the SEC that has oversight of the trading industry.
McCain says he would fire the SEC chairman. Now, aside from the fact that this crisis in the markets goes beyond the actions of one person (ie. FEMA was incompetent not because of Brownie but because George Bush neglected the basic function of government), the President does not have the power to fire the SEC [...]
Ok, having a stump speech is one thing, but Sarah Palin is giving essentially the same speech she gave at the RNC convention still. Of course, the crowds keep yelling “we want Sarah” interrupting her. And that’s what the GOP crowds do want. The problem is John McCain is the candidate.
UPDATE: 9/18/08 campaign rally - [...]
So, an interviewer asks John McCain about José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, the prime minister of Spain. Bizarrely, Mccain starts talking about Latin America.
I was not the biggest fan of geography in middle school, but I do remember this. Spain is in Europe (Spain is, in fact, a member of the European Union). Not Latin America.
Conservatives [...]
A few months ago I was incredulous that the McCain campaign had appointed as one of its top economic spokespersons Carly Fiorina, someone who is most infamous in the business and tech world for being a heck of a failure. It is sort of the political equivalent of hiring Ryan Leaf to be your starting [...]
That’s what John McCain called himself a little over a year ago. But you should totally totally totally believe him when he promises today to bring regulatory oversight to the collapsing financial system.
Real believable.
This is a little like a crack dealer saying you ought to lay off the crack a little bit.
Think of Bush, change “President” to “Governor” and put him in Alaska and you’ve got the crony conservatism of Sarah Palin.
Perhaps they need John McCain to explain it to them, but this conservative whine in the wake of Sarah Palin’s flub during her interview with John Gibson that gave us what is now being called the “moose in the headlights” moment, is just ridiculous. Anyone paying attention to politics knows what the Bush doctrine of [...]
McCain’s new ad twists and contorts the truth until there are only lies left. It says Obama supported sex ed over learning for children, when in fact the program Sen. Obama supported was one that would educate children on how to defend themselves versus child sex predators.
John McCain has no shame, but you knew that [...]
When you set yourself up as the maverickest maverick of ethics, you better hope you are squeaky clean. Along with her lies about the bridge to nowhere, looks like Palin took money from Alaskans she didn’t need.
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has billed taxpayers for 312 nights spent in her own home during her first 19 [...]
At least in the primetime speeches anybody notice that the GOP seems to have forgotten all about the killer issue that was supposed to revive the party? That is, immigration? Or perhaps they decided the bleeding among hispanic voters was getting out of control. My guess is thats a genie they can’t put back in [...]
When you’ve got no record to run on, this is the kind of bull you pull.
Days before the anniversary of September 11, on the same morning that John McCain and Barack Obama released a joint statement pledging to avoid politics in light of the anniversary of the terrorist attacks, McCain’s campaign accused Democrats of throwing [...]
The backlash keeps building and building. Because its an activity that leans left, the mainstream media is totally unaware of how pissed off people are. But then, who are involved in community organizing are pretty good at… organizing. Beware.
People do remember that Sen. Clinton became a major rallying point for the right, allowing them to [...]