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17 hours ago ago from Myron’s Mixer
I was thinking last night Would a President McCain have been that much different from President Obama? As we come to the close of Obama's first year, a surprising answer emerges: Maybe not. Let's go to the tape, looking at what President Obama has done, policy-wise, and what a President McCain might have done in the same situation. (Note: I am assuming a Democratic-majority congress in both cases.) *Obama extended the military ...
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Image via Wikipedia By Michael Hirsh John McCain lost the 2008 presidential election because of the financial crisis—at least that's what his chief strategist, Steve Schmidt, suggested. We were three points ahead on Sept. 15 when the stock market crashed. And then the election was over, Schmidt said in a postmortem earlier this year . McCain was tarred with the regulatory failures of the Bush years, and it didn't help that he had ...
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11 hours ago ago from The Firecracker Report
John McCain lost the 2008 presidential election because of the financial crisis—at least that's what his chief strategist, Steve Schmidt, suggested. "We were three points ahead on Sept. 15 when the stock market crashed. And then the election was over," Schmidt said in a postmortem earlier this year. McCain was tarred with the regulatory failures of the Bush years, and it didn't help that he had been a longtime acolyte of the Senate's dean of ...
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10 hours ago ago from Politics Daily
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