90% Believe U.S. on Wrong Track

October 13, 2008 - According to the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, 90 percent of Americans believe the country is on the wrong track -- the highest ever recorded since the question was first asked 35 years ago -- and President Bush received 23 percent approval, the lowest in 70 years of polling.
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Shorter John McCain: Dow Jones? Who?

October 10, 2008 - As countless thousands, perhaps millions, of Americans are losing their retirement savings, the McCain campaign is operating on radio silence. Must be part of that 'turning the page on the financial crisis' strategy. John McCain would rather lose your life savings than lose an election.
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Local Republicans Frustrated with McCain in Indiana

October 10, 2008 - And the hits just keep coming as Republicans are frustrated with John McCain's campaign (or lack thereof) in an uncharacteristically competitive Indiana.
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McCain's Nevada Operation Mocked by Activists as ''A Joke''

October 10, 2008 - Things aren't going so well for John McCain in Nevada. Local Republican activists fear the GOP nominee 'lacks the ground operation and commitment to win Nevada' and one GOP operative called their campaign 'a joke,' reports the Las Vegas Sun.
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Senator Obama Draws 15,000 in Cincinnati

October 10, 2008 - Senator Barack Obama is taking his message of turning the page on the last eight years of failed Bush/McCain policies to southern Ohio this week. Meanwhile, the McCain campaign continues their dishonest and dishonorable dive into gutter politics in a desperate attempt 'turn the page on the financial crisis' strategy while the Dow Jones crashes at historic rates and taking the savings of thousands of Americans with it.
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''Tested''

October 9, 2008 - John McCain’s new mortgage plan would reward lenders for their irresponsibility and uses taxpayer dollars to do it. That's not change, that's more of the same.
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DNC on the TV

October 8, 2008 - Communications Director Karen Finney appeared on MSNBC to talk about John McCain's sleazy, dishonest and dishonorable campaign.
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''Taketh''

October 8, 2008 - Watch the latest ad after Senator Barack Obama handily won last night's second presidential debate.
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$2 Trillion in Retirement Accounts Lost

October 7, 2008 - Americans' retirement plans have lost as much as $2 trillion in the past 15 months, Congress' top budget analyst estimated Tuesday. Yet, John McCain stlil wants to privatize Social Security.
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''The Subject''

October 7, 2008 - We know what kind of game John McCain is going to play for the remainder of the election. A top aide recently admitted to that ''If we keep talking about the economic crisis, we’re going to lose.'' John McCain, who is out of ideas, out of touch and out of time, is desperately trying to change the subject. It will not work.
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Rewriting History on Keating

October 6, 2008 - John McCain's campaign is trying to rewrite the events of the Savings & Loan scandal nearly twenty years later. In his 2002 autobiography, McCain called the scandal 'the worst mistake of my life,' but now McCain's campaign is claiming he did nothing wrong. Additionally, McCain's team is changing their story on what McCain knew.
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Keating Economics

October 6, 2008 - Watch the video and find out more by visiting www.KeatingEconomics.com.
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Dow Plummets to Lowest Point Since 2004

October 6, 2008 - This weekend, campaign advisers to John McCain say they want to 'turn the page' on the economic crisis and explore new depths of dishonorable and sleazy campaigning. This morning, the Dow Jones sank below 10,000 points for the first time in four years. While millions of Americans lose their life savings or retirement funds, John McCain wants to 'turn the page' on the financial crisis.
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New DNC Web Video Shows McCain Blasting McCain's New Campaign Tactics

October 6, 2008 - The Democratic National Committee today released a new web video showing John McCain denouncing his own campaign tactics. The new ad, called 'Negative Attack Ads,' follows reports that McCain's campaign is preparing a last ditch barrage of desperate negative attack ads aimed at 'turning the page' from the economic crisis facing working families. Recent reports show that McCain has already shifted virtually 100 percent of its ads to negative attack ads.
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Gov. Howard Dean on MSNBC

October 3, 2008 - Democratic National Committee chairman Gov. Howard Dean appeared on MSNBC this afternoon. Chairman Dean talked about how Joe Biden won Thursday night's vice presidential debate, and how Obama/Biden are the real ticket for change. Watch the video.
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Twice as Many Jobs Cut in September

October 3, 2008 - And John McCain wants four more years of this?
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Howard Dean Releases Health Care Actuality

October 3, 2008 - DNC Chairman Howard Dean released the following radio actuality on the choice voters face this election between four more years of broken Bush-McCain health care policies and the affordable health care plan that would be available to every American under the Obama-Biden plan:
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''Count the Lies'' Total Tops 100 After 22 New Debate Fact Checks

October 3, 2008 - The Democratic National Committee today updated the Count the Lies counter to reflect the 22 new fact checks published during and after last night's Vice Presidential candidates' debate. According to independent, non-partisan fact check organizations Sarah Palin repeated "old canards" on energy, repeated "several false claims" on taxes, got the facts wrong on troops levels in Iraq, made health care claims that are "inaccurate on several levels" and distorted her own record in Alaska.
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Former Freddie Mac Lobbyist Now McCain's Senate Aide

October 3, 2008 - The Washington Post reports that a former lobbyist for Freddie Mac works in the Senate office of Republican presidential nominee, John McCain. Wasn't it John McCain who said that ''access is influence''?
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''Can't Explain''

October 3, 2008 - Last night at the vice presidential debate, Senator Joe Biden informed the American public on what John McCain plans to do with healthcare -- deregulate it like he deregulated the financial industry -- and then tax health benefits to pay for a $5,000 tax credit per family that will not even cover half of the average healthcare costs to the average American family. Watch the latest ad.
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Notice a Pattern?

October 2, 2008 - Anybody else noticing a pattern here?
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McCain's 100 Percent Absolute Truth?

October 2, 2008 - John McCain tells a lie to cover up all his other lies.
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Editorial Rips John McCain's Plan for Healthcare

October 2, 2008 - Concord Monitor (NH) editorial ripped John McCain's 'plans' to 'blow up' the current healthcare system that would leave far fewer Americans with insurance.
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Fmr. U.S. Amb. to Pakistan Disputes McCain's ''Failed State'' Claim

October 1, 2008 - At the first Presidential debate last Friday, John McCain claimed Pakistan was a 'failed state' at the time of the coup that swept General Pervez Musharraf into power. William Milan, the former U.S. ambassador to Pakistan at the time of the coup disputed that claim in an e-mail to Matthew Yglesias.
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More Jobs Lost in September

October 1, 2008 - CNN reported on new figures that showed increased job cuts with the tech and auto industries hit the hardest. September brought the announced layoff total for the third quarter to 287,142 -- the largest number since 2005, according to the report.
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McCain Repeating Keating Mistakes

October 1, 2008 - A former regulator from the Savings & Loan scandal twenty-years ago says John McCain is repeating the same mistakes that embroiled him in the Keating Five scandal.
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McCain Puts Venezuela in the Middle East

September 30, 2008 - First, John McCain says he will not meet with a NATO ally that he thinks is in Latin America, and now all of a sudden Venezuela is in the Middle East. When political pundits said this race could change the map, this is not what they had in mind.
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Casino Lobbyists Betting on McCain

September 30, 2008 - Check out our latest web video on John McCain's ties to casino lobbyists.
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Count the Lies #64: ''Working The Refs''

September 30, 2008 - The Democratic National Committee today updated the Count the Lies counter after the Washington Post gave the McCain campaign Three Pinocchios for distorting the record on Rick Davis's connections to Freddie Mac.
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''Same Path''

September 30, 2008 - Senator Barack Obama launched a new two-minute advertisement on the failed economic policies of the last eight years, and tells Americans what he would do as President.
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McCain Stacks the Deck for Gambling Industry Lobbyists

September 29, 2008 - Watch our latest web video on John McCain's ties and favors for gambling lobbyists....
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DNC to Target McCain's Casino Lobbyists in New Ad and Video

September 29, 2008 - The Democratic National Committee today released a new web video highlighting John McCain's history of stacking the deck in favor of his favorite gambling industry lobbyists. The video comes on the heels of a new report outlining McCain's pattern of using his position as the chairman of a key Senate committee to tip the scales in favor of casino lobbyists with connections to his family and campaigns -- even if it meant reversing long held positions.
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Vote for Change

September 27, 2008 - Register your friends and family, turnout the vote on November 4 for the change we need. And in case you needed more motivation...
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John McCain -- Bull in a China Shop

September 26, 2008 - John McCain has proven to be a bull in a china shop--or, more accurately, a bull that 1) misleadingly says the china shop is in disarray before he enters; 2) vows not to leave until he cleans up; 3) enters and shatters everything in sight; 4) blames everyone else for the damage and 5) leaves, claiming a job well done.
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McCain Plays Politics at a Time for Leadership

September 26, 2008 - John McCain's political stunt to 'suspend' his campaign could not be any more transparent. Noted yesterday, McCain's campaign was operating like normal in the field, and surrogates were still lobbing their dishonest, misleading attacks against Senator Barack Obama. Even The Daily Show with Jon Stewart mocked McCain's move as a ten day delay to a major crisis where the Republican presidential nominee shifted from declarations that economic 'fundamentals' are 'strong' to warnings that this is the greatest crisis to face the nation since the Second World War.
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McCain's Plane Landed in D.C. After Bailout Deal Announced

September 25, 2008 - Sen. John McCain returned to Washington Thursday after declaring that he has suspended his campaign, but appeared largely detached from the negotiations on a $700 billion economic rescue package that appeared to be headed to a successful conclusion. McCain's 'Straight Talk Air' landed just after noon, and McCain's motorcade sped toward the Senate. But by then, senior Democrats and Republicans colleagues were already announcing that a deal in principle had been reached.
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On John McCain's ''Suspended'' Campaign

September 25, 2008 - Senior adviser Brad Woodhouse appeared on MSNBC this afternoon and took John McCain to task for his political stunt. Numerous reports show that McCain's campaign offices across the nation are still operating as normal, and within hours of his 'suspension' announcement, McCain surrogates were on cable news programs attacking Senator Barack Obama.
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Sarah Palin Talks to Katie Couric

September 25, 2008 - Sarah Palin spoke to Katie Couric this week but if you visited the McCain Report blog, you never would have known the first part of the interviewed aired yesterday, and part two airs tonight. Howard Kurtz reports that Palin declared 'victory' in Iraq.
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Prosecutor: Stevens Used Oil Co. as a ''Personal Handyman Service''

September 25, 2008 - The trial of Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK) continued this week as prosecutors argued in court that the longtime lawmaker used Veco Corp., the oil company he is accused of accepting illegal gifts, as his own personal Yellow Pages. Meanwhile, the McCain campaign continued to dodge questions about whether John McCain or Sarah Palin support Stevens, or scandal-plagued Rep. Don Young (R-AK).
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Davis Ties to Firm Remain, Records Show

September 25, 2008 - Newsweek reports that despite repeated claims by Rick Davis, McCain campaign manager, that he severed ties to his lobbying firm, Davis Manafort, records show he remains the treasurer and a corporate director.
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Senator Barack Obama on the Financial Crisis

September 24, 2008 - Watch Senator Barack Obama's remarks from Clearwater, Florida this afternoon.
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Rick Davis' Firm Paid by Freddie Mac through August

September 24, 2008 - In an interview on the Sunday edition of 60 Minutes, John McCain defended campaign manager Rick Davis and challenged folks to 'examine his record.' The New York Times did just that and found that Davis' lobbying firm was paid retainers of $15,000 a month through August.
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Taking It to John McCain

September 23, 2008 - Democrats Rep. Joe Baca (D-CA), Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-CA) and Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) joined other concerned citizens on the steps of the Republican National Committee this afternoon to protest John McCain's promise to protect offshore accounts from paying U.S. taxes and lifetime support for the massive deregulation that helped usher in this economic instability we currently face.
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Bermuda

September 23, 2008 - John McCain does more than vacation in Bermuda. He speaks to insurance executives who stash their profits in offshore bank accounts to avoid paying American taxes, and John McCain promises to protect them. Country first? More like McCain first.
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Seattle Times Endorses Senator Barack Obama for President

September 22, 2008 - In the Sunday edition of the Seattle Times was an editorial that endorsed Democratic presidential candidate, Senator Barack Obama for President.
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John McCain: A Risk We Cannot Afford to Take

September 22, 2008 - John McCain says he wants to deregulate the healthcare industry just like he and his allies like Phil Gramm did to the banking industry. Watch this latest advertisement from the Obama campaign.
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McCain Adviser Paid $35k/Month to Lobby Against Regulation of Freddie, Fannie

September 22, 2008 - In the New York Times, McCain campaign manager Rick Davis was paid $35,000 a month to lobby against regulation for Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.
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Newsweek: Vehicle Records of McCain's 13 Cars Contradict His Boast About Buying American

September 21, 2008 - Today Newsweek reported that John McCain owns 13 cars - and that contrary to what McCain said in a recent TV interview, the fleet includes three foreign cars. The report shows that McCain wasn't being honest with voters during a recent interview with WXYZ TV in Detroit when he said: 'I've bought American literally all my life, and I'm proud.'
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Virginians Hit McCain on New Call to Let Health Insurance Industry Run Amok

September 21, 2008 - In light of this week's Wall Street upheaval, today Judy Feder, Democratic nominee for US Representative from Virginia's 10th Congressional District, Barbara Favola, Vice Chair of the Arlington County Board and a member of Virginia's State Health Board, and concerned Virginians held a press conference outside of John McCain's campaign headquarters in Arlington, VA to challenge McCain's new magazine article calling for the deregulation of the health insurance companies 'just as we have done over the last decade in banking.'
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In His Own Words

September 20, 2008 - Paul Krugman, columnist for the New York Times, found a gem in the latest issue of Contigencies Magazine.
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In His Own Words: John McCain on Health Care

September 20, 2008 - In his own words, John McCain writes that his approach to health care would mirror what has happened in the banking industry over the last decade.
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Pew Study on Hispanics

September 19, 2008 - Hispanics view Senator Barack Obama and the Democratic Party in a much more positive light than John McCain and the rest of the Bush/McCain Republicans.
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Paulson: Plan Could Cost $1 Trillion

September 19, 2008 - The failed economic policies of George W. Bush and John McCain could cost taxpayers as much as $1 trillion.
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McCain Flubs and Accidentally Calls for the FEC Chair to Resign

September 19, 2008 - John McCain revised his call to 'fire' the SEC chairman, Chris Cox. This time, he said Cox should 'resign' after ABC News pointed out that the President cannot 'fire' the SEC chair, who heads an independent commission.
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Been There, Done That

September 18, 2008 - Sarah Palin likes to tell voters around the country about how she 'put the government checkbook online' in Alaska. On Thursday, Palin suggested she would take that same proposal to Washington. There’s just one problem with proposing to put the federal checkbook online – somebody’s already done it. His name is Barack Obama.
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GOP Dirty Tricks in Florida

September 18, 2008 - A new presidential election cycle, same old, Republican dirty tricks. An editorial in the St. Petersburg Times calls the mailings 'some of the sleaziest campaign tactics.'
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GOP Congressman Endorses Obama/Biden Ticket

September 18, 2008 - Congressman Wayne Gilchrist (R-Kennedyville, Md.), who lost his primary in a challenge from the right, endorsed Senator Barack Obama in an interview on local station for National Public Radio.
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McCain Flubs on SEC Chairmanship

September 18, 2008 - John McCain continued to pretend he never called himself the 'greatest deregulator' while he campaigned in tandem with Sarah Palin in Iowa. He also made another glaring gaffe on the economy this afternoon while speaking about the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC).
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Wanna Get Away?

September 18, 2008 - John McCain and Sarah Palin campaigned in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where the Republican vice presidential nominee mixed up Grand Rapids with Cedar Rapids.
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Former L.A. Mayor Richard Riordan (R) Endorses Barack Obama

September 18, 2008 - Richard Riordan, the former Republican mayor of Los Angeles, endorsed Senator Barack Obama for president, reports the Los Angeles Times.
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DNC RELEASES NEW WEB VIDEO: ''FUNDAMENTALLY STRONG?''

September 17, 2008 - The Democratic National Committee today released a web video called 'Fundamentally Strong?' highlighting McCain's out-of-touch claim yesterday that 'the fundamentals of the economy are strong' even as Americans watched the stock market plunge and saw their savings and retirement slip away and as two major financial institutions went belly up.
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McCain Contradicts Himself -- Yet Again

September 17, 2008 - John McCain made an incredibly absurd argument this morning on CBS when he said he 'warned' of a pending economic 'crisis' two years ago. The fact is that his claim on CBS this morning is simply not true and he is trying to fool the American people -- again. Who can believe this guy?
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DNC Launches New McCain-Palin Press Watch

September 17, 2008 - The Democratic National Committee today launched a new McCain-Palin Press Watch clock highlighting the fact that John McCain has gone 33 days since his last news conference with national reporters. His running mate, Sarah Palin, hasn't done any since she was chosen. To view the clocks, click here: www.democrats.org/McCainPressWatch
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John McCain Abandons 26-Year Record Opposing Regulation

September 17, 2008 - The recent turmoil in the American financial system has caused John McCain to suddenly embrace regulation after building a 26-year record of opposing it. So when John McCain goes out on the campaign trail and releases television advertisements pledging "new...
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Unable to Understand Economy, McCain Suggests 9/11 Commission-Style Probe He Opposed

September 16, 2008 - John McCain doesn't understand the economy so with the U.S. financial system in turmoil, he called for a '9/11 Commission-style' probe into Wall Street. Ironic since McCain opposed the 9/11 Commission, as well as commission probes into the failings after Hurricane Katrina and Rita in 2005.
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New DNC Web Ad on McCain and the Economy

September 16, 2008 - John McCain thinks the fundamentals of the economy are strong. He repeated the claim just yesterday after news of two major U.S. financial institutions go belly up and send stocks plummeting over 500 points. We released the following web ad highlighting how John McCain is disturbingly out of touch with Americans on the economy.
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CNN Debunks McCain Lies

September 16, 2008 - CNN ran a segment earlier today that debunks a few of the many lies coming from the McCain campaign. To read more about McCain's lies, read our Count the Lies page on McCainpedia where the counter is currently at 54....
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''Fundamentals''

September 16, 2008 - John McCain just doesn't get it. He still thinks the 'fundamentals of our economy are strong' -- even after the recent news of Lehman Brothers filing for bankruptcy, Merrill Lynch selling to Bank of America, and AIG teetering on the brink. Check out the latest Obama campaign advertisement on McCain and the economy.
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About that Chairmanship...

September 16, 2008 - John McCain, who freely admitted he doesn't understand the economy, tried to claim his former chairmanship of the Senate Commerce Committee provided him with the needed experience to handle the turmoil in the U.S. financial system on cable news morning shows. Only one problem -- the Senate Commerce Committee does not oversee those issues.
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Reformers?

September 16, 2008 - John McCain and Sarah Palin like to tell crowds that they are going to 'shake up' Washington with reforms, but do reformers stonewall investigations? We've seen this movie before and as the Democratic vice presidential nominee, Senator Joe Biden, said yesterday, 'the sequel is always worse than the original.'
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DNC Launches New ''Count the Lies'' Web Page, Online Counter

September 15, 2008 - The Democratic National Committee today launched a new online counter and web page that chronicles John McCain's lies and distortions on the campaign trail. Called 'Count the Lies,' the site and counter lists the articles from independent, non-partisan fact checkers who have debunked the false and misleading claims and smears that have dominated McCain's campaign.
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Obama on the Stump

September 15, 2008 - Senator Barack Obama hits McCain while on the stump in Colorado.
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Enthusiasm Gap

September 15, 2008 - No wonder the McCain campaign lies about their crowd sizes. (Is there nothing they won't lie about?) Check out this photo from a McCain rally in Jacksonville, Florida, published by the Orlando Sentinel. That's a lot of empty seats.
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That Didn't Take Long

September 15, 2008 - We launched a page on McCainpedia dedicated to counting the lies coming from the McCain campaign called Count the Lies. We already had to update the counter to 52 fact checks now debunking the dishonest attacks from the McCain campaign (as well as the distortions about his own record) since he wrapped up his Party's nomination.
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With Banks in Turmoil, McCain Adviser Scolds Americans on Economy

September 15, 2008 - The same day reports appear in newspapers of banks in turmoil, Donald Luskin, an economic adviser to John McCain, penned a piece in the Washington Post that scolded Americans as 'exaggerators' and defended 'mental recession' comments made last July by another McCain adviser, Phil Gramm.
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Count the Lies

September 15, 2008 - We launched a page on McCainpedia dedicated to counting the lies coming from the McCain campaign called Count the Lies. We have 51 fact checks debunking the dishonest attacks from the McCain campaign (as well as the distortions about his own record) since he wrapped up his Party's nomination.
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No Reformer

September 13, 2008 - We released a new, 65-page report on John McCain's 26 years in Washington, cozy relationships with his lobbyist campaign advisors and fundraisers and the backroom deals he's been involved with have harmed Americans and cost America jobs. Download the report.
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BUSH-MCCAIN ALERT: President Touts Bush-McCain Health Care Agenda in Oklahoma

September 12, 2008 - The Tulsa World reports that President Bush will conduct a business roundtable in Oklahoma City today to promote his failed plan for health savings accounts before heading off to a private closed door fundraiser for John McCain's campaign.
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McCain Would Rather Lose His Integrity Than Lose an Election

September 12, 2008 - John McCain appeared on The View this afternoon and stood by his dishonest and dishonorable attacks on Senator Barack Obama that independent fact checkers routinely rule as 'misleading' and rife with 'distortions.'
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YouTube Removes Dishonest McCain Ad for Copyright Infringement

September 12, 2008 - John McCain cannot help but to continuously break copyright laws. YouTube removed the dishonest attack ad against Senator Barack Obama due to a copyright claim made by CBS News because a clip of Katie Couric was featured. Ironic since John McCain claims on his website that he will protect creative industries from piracy -- just not from John McCain himself.
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Pentagon Says Strategy in Afghanistan Not Working

September 10, 2008 - In Afghanistan, the war that McCain conveniently forgot recently, the Pentagon admitted that the strategy to combat those who actually attacked us on 9/11 is not working. Navy Admiral Mike Mullen says he is not convinced we are winning in Afghanistan.
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McCain Strategy: Lie, Baby, Lie

September 10, 2008 - Another dishonest attack ad from the McCain campaign.
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Ad Calls Out McCain Camp's 'Naked Lies'

September 9, 2008 - John McCain has seen the polling: the American people do not want four more years of the same old policies that have failed them for the last eight years. So in an attempt to pretend the McCain/Palin ticket doesn't represent the status quo, they have decided to just make things up and pretend you don't have lobbyists running your campaign.
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Immigration ''Hard-Liner'' Steve King on McCain: ''He's On Board''

September 9, 2008 - According to news reports, immigration hard-liner U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, says GOP presidential candidate John McCain -- who had been at odds with King and many others in his party over the issue -- is now on board.
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Palin Distortions on Display in the Show Me State

September 8, 2008 - John McCain and Sarah Palin continue to show the voters that they won't let the facts get in their way of their misleading campaign rhetoric. Whether claiming Governor Palin fought the earmarks she so actively sought or arguing that John McCain put principles ahead of the party line despite voting with President Bush more than 90 percent of the time, Sarah Palin's remarks in Missouri today bear almost complete disconnected from reality. The following are the facts behind Sarah Palin's false and misleading claims on the campaign trail today:
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As Palin Offers More of the Same, DNC Relaunches www.TheNextCheney.com

September 8, 2008 - With John McCain and his new running mate offering more of the same lies and distortions on the campaign trail, the Democratic National Committee today relaunched its website www.TheNextCheney.com. Since McCain chose Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, the American people have learned that she suffers from ethics problems, held secret Cheney-style energy hearings, and relied on the same old crowd of Republican lobbyists to steer earmarks back to Alaska. Since McCain and his campaign have refused to run on the real McCain-Palin record, the DNC is setting the record straight at www.TheNextCheney.com.
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Governor Dean on MSNBC

September 5, 2008 - Governor Howard Dean was on MSNBC with Tom Brokaw on the last night of the Republican National Convention. Watch Howard hand it to the Republicans at their own convention.
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Fired Up or Ready to Go?

September 4, 2008 - New York Times notes a few in the crowd during John McCain's acceptance speech: 10:39 p.m. | Sleepy? Our colleague Patrick Healy reports from the floor: There is a delegate in the Utah section and a delegate in Puerto Rico...
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ICYMI: Audio of DNC Convention Briefing Call

September 4, 2008 - This morning Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D-KS), Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL), Obama Campaign Senior Strategist Robert Gibbs and DNC Advisor Jamal Simmons held a conference call with reporters to discuss the McCain-Palin campaign's promise of more of the same we've gotten from President Bush for the past eight years - and their promise, if elected, of carrying out a third Bush term.
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Sarah Palin Speech: Just the Facts

September 4, 2008 - Just the facts.
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Earmarks

September 4, 2008 - John McCain has made earmarks a central theme of his campaign this election but it is just more of the same empty rhetoric. Nevermind that he can't name any specific earmarks he would nix, and even admitted he wouldn't cut...
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DNC Launches New Web Ad: ''90 Percent Bush''

September 3, 2008 - As the Republican National Convention continues in St. Paul, MN, tonight, the Democratic National Committee today released a new web ad called 90 Percent Bush. The video highlights John McCain's record of voting with George W. Bush 90 percent of the time. Straightforward images illustrate what 90 percent really means, showing how John McCain is just more of the same.
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90% Bush

September 3, 2008 - John McCain has voted with George W. Bush 90 percent of the time, including 95 percent in 2007 and 100 percent this year. He really is just more of the same. We released this video to show, visually, what that looks like.
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FACT CHECK: Mitt Romney vs. the Facts

September 3, 2008 - Tonight, Mitt Romney added his name to the list of Republicans working to distorting the record on John McCain's promise of more of the same.
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FACT CHECK: Rudy as a Reformer

September 3, 2008 - Tonight, John McCain has picked Rudy Giuliani to give the keynote speech for his convention on 'Reform' night. Here's Rudy's real record of reform:
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Another McCain Attack Ad Debunked in Record Time

September 3, 2008 - MSNBC political reporter Mark Murray on the latest dishonest attack ad from the McCain campaign. In fact, every assertion against Senator Barack Obama is just flat false.
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Democratic Convention versus Republican Convention

September 3, 2008 - Here's one perspective on the differences between the Democratic National Convention and this week's Republican convention....
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Howard Dean's Register for Change Bus Tour to Continue through Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and Missouri

September 3, 2008 - Howard Dean's cross country Register for Change bus tour will continue to campaign through the Midwest this week. After a stop in Milwaukee, WI earlier today the tour will head to Madison, WI this afternoon for another event. The bus tour will then continue to tour the Midwest with stops in Minnesota - host state of the Republican National Convention - Iowa and Missouri.
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DNC Launches New Website: www.JustMoreOfTheSame.com

September 3, 2008 - On the heels of President Bush passing the torch to the one candidate who has consistently promised more of the same failed Bush policies, the Democratic National Committee today launched a new website called www.JustMoreOfTheSame.com.
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ICYMI: Audio DNC Convention Briefing Call With Robert Gibbs and Jamal Simmons

September 3, 2008 - This morning Obama Campaign Senior Strategist Robert Gibbs and DNC Advisor Jamal Simmons held a morning briefing call with reporters to discuss the McCain campaign's promise of more of the same.
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