Election Night HQ

On Saturday, April 14, the official McCain campaign made its FEC report public to the media.  It confirmed the results that had been announced at the beginning of the month: namely, that McCain lags behind Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani in money, and also has a high “burn rate”.  In other words, the McCain campaign […]

Rasmussen released a poll on Thursday, April 12, showing that Senator McCain still trails former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani in a poll of 512 likely Republican primary voters, by a statistically significant margin, 27%-16%.  However, McCain is now in a statistical tie for second place, a three-way battle with former Tennessee Senator Fred Dalton Thompson and Massachusetts Gov. Mitt […]

On Wednesday, April 11, the AP reported that substantial staff and consultant cuts had been made by the official campaign.  The report did name one specific casualty, consultant Chris Drummond of South Carolina, who told the AP that “it kind of came as a surprise.”
There were some substantive figures in the AP article.  It reported […]

While much has been made about the release of the 2007 first quarter FEC fundraising reports, there are other ways of measuring momentum.  Yahoo! Buzz has its own methods: how many people are searching for candidates online?  The hierarchy of searches isn’t exactly the same as the hierarchy of campaign cash - as one might […]

This is the first of a new Campaignia/Exploring McCainia feature, known as “Musings on McCain: What the Independent, Unofficial McCainia Blogosphere Is Saying…”   Musings on McCain will be published here periodically, for an overall look at the McCain blogosphere. 
Moderates for McCain, the latest pro-McCain blog to be identified by Campaignia, is not concerned about the 1st […]