Posts tagged john mccain

• 03 Jun

  Blog: Veracifier

  Obama hits the mark

  Obama clinched the critical delegate count today, and our friends at The Uptake are there, covering live. Watch the speech live or archived in the embedded player below at a slightly different angle than the televised speech, from their live cam at the event. Read the full text of the speech on TPM

• 21 Apr

  Blog: Veracifier

  Did Obama make another misstep?

  The Hill reports that Obama said Sunday: "You have a real choice in this election. Either Democrat would be better than John McCain,” Obama said during an event in Pennsylvania, as quoted by the Associated Press. Then he added: "And all three of us would be better than George Bush." Even though O

• 07 Apr

  Blog: Veracifier

  McCain making play for Latino vote in NM

  While we were all talking about the Richardson-Clinton drama, John McCain started running Spanish language ads in New Mexico. According to the Huffington Post, McCain is making all the right moves and Dems should be concerned. But the real reason that Democrats should worry is that the GOP presi

• 02 Apr

  Blog: Veracifier

  Both Dems virtually tied with McCain

    Here's a look at over 19,000 responses from Gallup, which yielded some expected, yet interesting, demographic results. From the Baltimore Sun: Both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are virtually tied with Republican John McCain in national daily tracking polls that Gallup has been runnin

• 24 Mar

  Blog: Veracifier

  How Clinton can still win

  Ever since Iowa, it seems like the media has been calling for Sen. Hillary Clinton to drop out of the race. She’s bounced back several times—even after a winless streak in February, only to carry Texas, Rhode Island and Ohio the following month. Now that the Jeremiah Wright story seems to be fa

• 24 Mar

  Blog: Veracifier

  New Gallup poll has Obama up

  According to Gallup's daily tracking poll, Obama has a 3 point lead on Clinton, 48% to 45%, reversing a dip that had Clinton leading by 7 points. The surge comes after Obama's important speech on race, and an endorsement by Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico. Versus their Republican opponent, John M

• 21 Mar

  Blog: Veracifier

  More details on the passport breach story

  The New York Times is reporting that the passports of all three candidates were breached. Obama's file was breached three separate times, by three different employees, working for independent contractors. Two of the employees were fired, and the third, who also accessed John McCain's file, was "only

• 20 Mar

  Blog: Veracifier

  McCain aide suspended for pushing new Obama/Wright video

  An aide to John McCain has been suspended from the campaign for circulating a racially-charged video about Barack Obama, which calls into question the Illinois senator’s patriotism. The video melds clips from Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s sermons, sound bites from Michelle Obama, and previous interview