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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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 […]
Nobody now has to rely on Campaignia’s “reasonably concise summary” of what appears to have become memorable as the “Romney’s small-varmint gun” call, as the NY Sun’s Ryan Sager has reprinted the McCain campaign’s official release of the transcript of the May 22 new-media/bloggers conference call.
Below- Sager’s complete post and transcript (note: he reprints […]
Here is a concise summary of Senator McCain’s New Media Conference Call, which took place at 12:30 PM EDT on Monday, May 21, and lasted about 45 minutes. Many participants have summarized their own questions, as well as the conference call as a whole, so you can read their sites for more detail.
The title of […]