Senator McCain continued to gather substantial free-media coverage of his support for the immigration package that has caused so much consternation among conservative Republican base voters. McCain made the front page of ABC’s hugely popular “The Note”, with the caption, “McCain’s Gamble: A Challenge to Party Orthodoxy Could Revive the ‘Maverick’ - Or Enrage the Base.”
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It’s time to add “leprosy” to “Bomb Iran”, “gates of hell”, “small-varmint gun”, “Guatemalans off his lawn”, and “flack”/”flak”, to the lexicon of memorable words and phrases from the coverage of McCain 2008. Hat tip to The Politico’s Jonathan Martin, who posted the U.S. News story and thus brought it to Campaignia’s attention.
The fallout from the […]
The Tower now takes a look at one of the most popular political new-media sites and what it is saying today, June 1, the date of The Tower’s official launch. It will begin with The Politico’s Jonathan Martin, who is covering the Republican side in 2008. Martin’s several posts dated June 1, have boatloads of interesting info, regarding […]
Campaignia is happy to announce the official launch of its second political new-media site, The Tower: Surveying the Political World From High Above.
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In his political new-media site The Fix, the Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza commented at length about Senator McCain’s handling of the volatile immigration issue, per the Republican base. Here’s the complete text:
“McCain Goes on Offense on Immigration
No issue animates the Republican base like immigration.And, in the days following the announcement of a bipartisan deal on […]