Now that all of the suspense is over and we know that FDT is running - after, ironically, serving as McCain’s national co-chair in 2000 - the Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza had an exceptionally cogent analysis, on how FDT’s entry will affect other Republican candidates, throughout the nomination process.
The most intriguing part of The Fix’s analysis, […]
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 […]
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 […]
This afternoon - Wednesday, May 30 - those on the official campaign’s e-mail list received an official request for campaign contributions, presumably from an individual (or individuals) from Senator McCain’s Finance Team, formally released under the Senator’s signature.
While these e-requests are not new, of course, this one seemed to use many of the best campaign techniques for […]