HIGH WATER MARK:
Winning South Carolina, less than 6 months after his campaign was declared dead. This GOP primary campaign was truly one for the ages, & McCain deserves quite a bit of praise for keeping hope alive back in the dark days.
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THE AD YOU DIDN’T SEE
December 9th, 2008, 9:14 am by Dan Lehr
Above: watch the ABC story on the ad the McCain campaign ultimately decided not to run (it appears 76 seconds into this clip).
Would it have made a difference?
TURN OUT THE LIGHTS, THE PARTY’S OVER
December 4th, 2008, 11:22 am by Dan Lehr
I’m doing some end-of-the-year blogroll maintenance (the blogroll is the list of websites I’ve linked that you can see on the right hand side of this website).
& one of the ones I’m removing is John McCain’s campaign website.
There’s nothing there anymore but a message to supporters. Click here to read it.
I hope this doesn’t disappoint.
I will say that McCain’s website did ultimately disappoint me throughout the year. I was frustrated at the lack of blog posts (for a while, one every three days, then, near the end, one every day - all the while Obama’s had 10, 11, sometimes even 15 posts a day to his blog).
Republicans, you have got to master the internet next time around if you expect to succeed.
SORRY GOP; McCAIN WON’T RUN AGAIN
November 26th, 2008, 10:48 am by Dan Lehr
I can tell you’re just heartbroken, Republicans, especially by the way he seems to be on many of your minds this week.
JOHN & BARACK, SITTIN’ IN A TREE
November 25th, 2008, 3:57 pm by Dan Lehr
Now it can be told: McCain & Obama’s camps were a little tighter back in the summer than we were led to believe.
From the Washington Note’s Steve Clemons:
BELLWEATHER STATUS LOST
November 19th, 2008, 3:17 pm by Dan Lehr
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - Final vote count shows McCain wins Missouri.
Absolutely final electoral tally: Read the rest of this entry »
THE RIVALS MEET
November 17th, 2008, 3:23 pm by Dan Lehr
GETTIN’ TOGETHER
November 14th, 2008, 11:43 am by Dan Lehr
CHICAGO (AP) - President-elect Barack Obama’s transition office says the Democrat will meet with vanquished Republican rival John McCain on Monday.
McCAIN IN GEORGIA
November 14th, 2008, 10:56 am by Dan Lehr
Pity he didn’t revisit the “we are all Georgians now” line.
McCAIN ON LENO
November 12th, 2008, 12:13 pm by Dan Lehr
“I’ve been sleeping like a baby,” the GOP candidate said on The Tonight Show Tuesday. “I sleep two hours, wake up and cry. Sleep two hours, wake up and cry.”
TN EVANGELICALS COME THROUGH FOR McCAIN
November 12th, 2008, 11:35 am by Dan Lehr
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Their presidential candidate lost and their influence in national politics may be waning, but white born-again Christians clearly won the 2008 election in Tennessee.
Even for the buckle of the Bible Belt, their majority was surprising - two of every three white voters in Tennessee identified themselves as evangelical Christians in exit polls.
This in a state where 84 percent of the voters are white.
Political pollster Ken Blake says the importance that John McCain’s supporters put on shared values underscores the role that religion plays in Tennessee presidential politics. Those values included opposition to abortion.
McCain carried Tennessee but lost the election. Yet white evangelicals likely helped elect new Republican majorities in the Tennessee Legislature.
Overall, 52 percent of Tennessee voters were white born-again Christians. Only Arkansas, with 55 percent, was higher.
Other interesting factoids about November 4th & the religious:
THE MILITARY VOTE
November 11th, 2008, 6:04 pm by Dan Lehr
Obama 44%, McCain 56%
(that’s an improvement for the Dem candidate - Kerry, Vietnam War veteran, got 41% in 2004)
Much more on what members of the military think about it all here.
STUMPING FOR SAXBY
November 11th, 2008, 9:27 am by Dan Lehr
I’m sure McCain is bushed after 2 years of constant campaigning - but he’s still got enough energy to help out in the Georgia Senate runoff race, & you have a chance to see him this week. From my e-mail inbox:
THE HIGH WATER MARK + 3 MONTHS
November 8th, 2008, 12:13 pm by Dan Lehr
~~~August 31st~~~
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~~>the Sunday after McCain picks Palin<~~
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[IN TERMS OF POLLING, NEAR THE HIGH WATER MARK OF McCAIN'S CAMPAIGN]
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How did state polls move in the next 3 months?
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Click here for the answer.
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E-DAY PLUS 3, I-DAY MINUS 77***
November 7th, 2008, 9:41 am by Dan LehrHamilton County Voter Turnout Bucks National Trend
Thanks go to my News Director, who found these on Hamilton County’s Election Commission site:
2008: 72%
2004: 78%
2000: 64%
1996: 67%
Nationwide 2008 turnout: Estimated at 62.5%, up from 60.3%
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Unemployment Spikes
We learn today that 240,000 jobs were lost in October; the national rate goes up from 6.1% to 6.5%.
Read more about it here.
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Transition Underway
Illinois Congressman Rahm Emmanuel signs on as WH Chief of Staff. Read the statements from both Obama & Emanuel here.
Why Rahm? Marc Ambinder muses.
Hillary Clinton approves of the pick, House Minority Leader John Boehner does not.
The Emanuel pick signals the transition will be quick; read more about the overall plan here.
Obama plans to give his 1st news conference as president-elect; read more about what he’ll reveal today here.
Before that newser, he’ll hold a conference with his economic advisers; read more about that here.
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The Autopsy: What Went Wrong?
Charles Krauthammer says it was the economy:
“We have never had a full-fledged financial panic in the middle of a presidential campaign. Consider. If the S&P 500 were to close at the end of the year where it did on Election Day, it will have suffered this year its steepest drop since 1937. That is 71 years.
At the same time, the economy had suffered nine consecutive months of job losses. Considering the carnage to both capital and labor (which covers just about everybody), even a Ronald Reagan could not have survived. The fact that John McCain got 46 percent of the electorate when 75 percent said the country was going in the wrong direction is quite remarkable.”
Andrew Sullivan disagrees with Krauthammer’s premise.
It’s my view that that the country did not swing more Democratic, as some left-leaning sites are saying. I would say this is a vote more against ideology & for pragmatism. This is a trend I’ve tracked ever since August 29th, 2005. & I believe Tuesday’s voters weren’t necessarily giving Democrats a big thumbs up - they were giving a thumbs-down to the ineffective policies of the party in power, which happened to be the Republicans.
Voters are hungry for results & had their fill of ideologues.
As I’ve said to many in the past 3 years, the successful politicians will be those who work to deliver results to their consituencies - no matter which party they belong to.
More thoughts throughout the day.
Weigh in yourself! Why did McCain lose?
***(note: “e-day” = election day, “i-day” = inauguration day)
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