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Members of the Harvard Republican Club who volunteered at GOP campaign headquarters in Boston yesterday got a special treat when Meghan M. McCain, daughter of Republican presidential candidate John McCain, came to town to rally the faithful...
...draws the press to the late front runner. If John McCain knows how to stop the cycle, he hasn't revealed it. Once upon a time, Obama reneged on a promise to limit public campaign-financing for the general election, anticipating greater resources against McCain. It briefly appeared that GOP fund-raising had leveled the playing field. But it's been a happy ending for Obama: in some places, his campaign is outspending McCain's by more than 8 to 1 on TV ads. First McCain undermined his "ready from day one" message by selecting Sarah Palin as his running...
...better to be lucky than good in politics, it's best to be both. The Dems are still taking advantage of the favorable environment--which, along with a cascade of GOP errors, is masking any mistakes Team Obama might be making...
...Rooney-Mahoney debate is scheduled for Oct. 24, but the campaign did not return a phone call Wednesday to confirm if it was still on. Palm Beach County GOP chair Sid Dinerstein is happy he still has a seat to the event, he said. Since 2006, the area has seen four city and county commissioners imprisoned for corruption charges; the Foley scandal; a still unresolved Aug. 26 judicial election in which voting ballots briefly disappeared; and now the Mahoney affair. "The voters, they are waiting for a natural leader," Dinerstein said. Or at least one who can manage to stay...
Ayers, 63, is the University of Illinois at Chicago education professor who, during the Vietnam era, was a leader of radical group the Weather Underground. In recent weeks, Republicans have mounted an increasingly potent assault on Obama's past dealings with Ayers. Sarah Palin, the GOP vice-presidential candidate, depicted Chicago as a hotbed of radical politics. Earlier this month, she referred to Ayers when she said Obama "sees America as imperfect enough to pal around with terrorists who targeted their own country." During Wednesday night's final presidential debate, Senator John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee, continued to question...