Archive for August 13th, 2007

AP’s Jim Davenport: McCain, when asked about his 101 votes in Ames: “I thought it would be zero.”

Campaigning Monday in South Carolina, Senator McCain accurately noted the insignificance of the straw poll in Ames on Saturday, in which nonparticipants Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson and himself received a grand total of 487 votes combined, out of over 14,000 cast.  Key excerpts from the AP article:

…McCain, who garnered 101 votes, said he was surprised to […]

GraniteGrok’s addendum to their coverage of McCain’s Wolfesboro, NH appearance

The publishers of GraniteGrok added to their already remarkably thorough coverage of Senator McCain in Wolfesboro, NH on Friday.  Here’s an excerpt from their addendum:  
        

Blogging at McCain’s - an addendum to the Wright Museum 

In this post, I mentioned that the ‘Grok crew went the Senator McCain Town Meeting at the Wright Museum.  Well, I have more […]

GraniteGrok blog provides welcome, highly detailed account of McCain at the Wright Museum in Wolfesboro, NH

The publishers of GraniteGrok - go to their site to learn the origin of the name - were good enough to provide a welcome, detailed account of Senator McCain’s town meeting in Wolfesboro, NH on Friday night, while all of his rivals but Rudy were stumping in Ames, Iowa.  Here are selected excerpts; The Tower would strongly recommend going […]

AP’s Holly Ramer: “McCain: primary scramble won’t hurt his campaign.”

The AP’s Holly Ramer wrote this story on Friday, August 10.  After getting Senator McCain’s thoughts on the compressed primary and caucus schedule, she covered his appearance in New Hampshire, in which he discussed the eminent domain issue, among other issues.  Here are excerpts:

MERRIMACK, N.H. (AP) _ Republican presidential hopeful John McCain said Thursday that his […]

McCain once more uses text of 8/8 fundraising e-mail, five days later; The Tower speculates that the 8/8 text must have been effective

The Tower’s publisher was surprised to see a fundraising e-mail in the inbox today.  The surprise was not the fundraising e-mail per se, but the fact that it was literally a verbatim copy of the e-mail that was sent out last week, on August 8 - titled “I won’t back down one inch” - which The Tower had also published […]


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