Archive for June, 2007

News analysis: McCain NH campaign announces “grassroots leadership team participates in campaign briefing”

Jill Hazelbaker, press secretary for Senator McCain’s New Hampshire campaign, sent out the following press release today (titled “McCain Campaign Rallies Supporters”):

                                                                                                                             

Contact: Jill Hazelbaker

Tuesday, June 26, 2007                                                                                                                                                603-369-4949

MANCHESTER, NH - As the summer season officially kicks off, John McCain’s New Hampshire team held a grassroots briefing at the Arizona Senator’s […]

McCain schedules $$$ quadruple-header in Virginia/DC today, culminating in what The Politico’s Martin describes as “an end-of-the-quarter soiree.”

Remember that “over one a day” average in June?   Well, Senator McCain will be pulling out all the stops today: a quadruple-header in Virginia and DC, on the heels of his day-night doubleheader in South Carolina yesterday.  
1.  A Richmond fund-raising breakfast.
2.  A luncheon in Hampton Roads, Va.
3.  Then it’s up to DC for two receptions - […]

Pitt. Post-Gazette columnist offers insightful commentary on overall state of the McCain campaign

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Robert Shribman had a particularly insightful commentary  - titled “Role Over” - on the McCain campaign situation, published on Yahoo! News on Monday.  Because of the quality of the commentary, The Tower is reproducing its text in its entirety:

Bush turns to the insiders as McCain becomes one, which probably won’t help either one of […]

AP: McCain raises $$$ in SC doubleheader, is endorsed by Greenville mayor, and is nonplussed by drop in polls

During his 3 PM news conference in between fundraisers in South Carolina, Senator McCain was nonplussed by the unfortunate drop in the polls which he has sustained recently.  It was a day/night doubleheader of fundraisers, so to speak.  Reportedly, 85 people attended the $500/head opener in the state capital of Columbia, so that would translate to about $42,500 […]

News analysis: breaking down McCain’s e-fundraising letter of June 25 - the word/phrase “crusade(r)” appears four times

The Tower breaks down the e-fund-raising letter, sent out under the signature of campaign manager Terry Nelson on Monday, June 25, at 4:59 PM.  Here’s the full text of the mass e-mail, which The Tower received: 

 
Dear [the first name of The Tower’s publisher], 
For over two decades, John McCain has had the courage to serve as a […]


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