Now that the election is over we start getting a bigger look into the inner workings of the McCain campaign: Randy Scheunemann, a senior foreign policy adviser to John McCain, was fired from the Arizona senator’s campaign last week for what one aide called “trashing” the campaign staff, three senior McCain advisers tell CNN. One […]
Josh points out this new memo put out by Rick Davis: Expanding the Field: Obama is running out of states if you follow out a traditional model. Today, he expanded his buy into North Dakota, Georgia and Arizona in an attempt to widen the playing field and find his 270 Electoral Votes. This is a […]
Today’s Washington Times has an article talking about a battle going on between the Ohio GOP and John McCain: In Ohio, long-boiling friction between the McCain campaign and the state Republican Party on a variety of issues reached a new intensity over a complicated local gambling question. The state Republican Party’s central committee had voted […]
In an upcoming piece on McCain, New York Times Magazine reporter Robert Draper gives us this little insight into the whole Palin pick: Having interviewed several of the Senator’s chief aides, Draper details the process by which McCain ultimately chose his running mate (New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg was surprisingly high on the list). […]
If the NYT’s reporting about Rick Davis is so wrong, then why is he running? John McCain campaign manager Rick Davis–under the spotlight because of his work for mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac–is skipping a Wednesday lunch with reporters sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor. Do the innocent run, or do they try […]
So it’s not only the New York Times taking McCain’s campaign manager to task. Newsweek is also reporting about the $15,000 a month Rick Davis made from Freddie and Fannie up to last month. You can bet we will hear a bunch more crying about the media from the McCain campaign in the coming days. […]
And John McCain does nothing but lie to the American people about it – the same American people expected to bail out these companies. One of the giant mortgage companies at the heart of the credit crisis paid $15,000 a month to a firm owned by Senator John McCain’s campaign manager from the end of […]
McCain has tried so hard to tie Obama to Freddie and Fannie, but guess what? He hasn’t looked closely enough at his own campaign: Senator John McCain’s campaign manager was paid more than $30,000 a month for five years as president of an advocacy group set up by the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie […]
Rick Davis on the line up of speakers for the GOP convention: “I think one of the things that is important, especially for John McCain, as unique a politician as he is, is to demonstrate the diversity and differences of ideology I would say of our party,” Davis said. “I think one of the things […]
McCain’s campaign manager, Rick Davis, has sent a very nasty letter to NBC about the claims that McCain may have heard the questions. Sully has the fully letter. So why is the McCain campaign taking such a defensive approach to this? A general reaction to something like this would be “we won’t answer such false […]