Category Archives: John McCain

Boehner’s hand forced on Benghazi

By Julian Pecquet Speaker John Boehner is trying to head off a GOP rebellion over his handling of the investigation into last year’s fatal attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, by releasing an interim report of evidence by his panel chairmen. Boehner, an Ohio Republican, told lawmakers Tuesday that the heads of the [...]

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The GOP Turnout Myth

  To win future elections, Republicans will need more than better get-out-the-vote software.   By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL To win the next presidential race, the GOP will have to understand what went wrong in 2012. To do that, they’ve got to come to grips with what did, and did not, happen with turnout. Even as [...]

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McCain: Susan Rice ‘Not Qualified’ for Sec. of State

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Why Mitt Romney isn’t going to get blown out

Posted by Chris Cillizza and Aaron Blake on September 27, 2012 at 6:30 am It’s easy amid a slew of swing state and national polling that shows President Obama opening up a high single-digit lead over Republican challenger Mitt Romney to conclude that we could be witnessing an electoral blowout in the making. But, there’s [...]

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Jewish Voters Leaving Obama

Polling significantly worse than in 2008   BY:  Washington Free Beacon Staff  Obama is far behind his 2008 pace with Jewish voters, new polling shows. According to Michael Barone at the Washington Examiner:   The latest survey of Jewish Americans, conducted March 14-27 by a firm called Knowledge Networks for the American Jewish Committee, shows [...]

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Romney and the Youth Vote

By: Katrina Trinko******National Review Online In March, on the eve of the Illinois primary, over a thousand Bradley University students gathered to hear Mitt Romney. Dressed casually, many in shorts and T-shirts, they stood outside on an unusually warm spring day in Peoria. They listened as 30-year-old Republican Representative Aaron Schock introduced Romney, and watched [...]

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Mitt Romney doesn’t really have a Republican problem

Posted by Chris Cillizza Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney is the undisputed frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination even as he continues to endure whispers that he is simply too moderate to win over a majority of the GOP. Exit polling from Romney’s 16-point victory in New Hampshire tells a very different story, however. Among [...]

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NY-9 is a body blow for the President

Joshua Lamel Cofounder and principal, J2 Public Strategies, former Hill staffer : NY-9 is a body blow for the president. Democratic voter turnout was low for this special election, and given the organizational advantages Democrats have in both Queens and Brooklyn, this has to be making people nervous on President Obama’s team, and at the [...]

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“Mitt Romney versus the many”

By ALEXANDER BURNS The fight for the Republican presidential nomination may not be a heavyweight slugfest after all. A primary campaign that was expected to pit an eggshell frontrunner, Mitt Romney, against one or more powerful, well established opponents has suddenly been flipped. The former Massachusetts governor has built up a solid early lead and [...]

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Senator McCain Becomes Shill for Al-Jazeera

The Arab-funded Al-Jazeera is hosting a two-day inaugural “Al Jazeera U.S. Forum” in Washington, D.C., featuring Bob Woodward of The Washington Post among the celebrity journalists. But of particular interest is Politico’s revelation that Republican Senator John McCain showed up at the opening night of the forum to praise the channel’s coverage of the Middle [...]

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