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Steve Schmidt, the senior campaign strategist for Sen. John McCain’s 2008 presidential bid, and Meghan McCain, the candidate’s daughter, have begun calling for their party to drop their opposition to same-sex marriage.
Both are scheduled to address the Log Cabin Republican convention this weekend in Washington, D.C.
Schmidt, according to a transcript of his speech attained by [...]

The exclusive story is no longer the exclusive domain of the traditional media. In many cases, it’s the small, independent media that are breaking stories and driving the news these days.

U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, told The Des Moines Register that he tried to get John McCain to ease up on the ethanol attacks and frame the debate in a different way that wouldn’t alienate farmers. King thinks McCain’s vocal opposition to ethanol subsidies played a role in the Arizona Republican’s poor performance in Iowa.

U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, while predicting national Democrats would pick up seven seats in the U.S. Senate, was in a forgiving mood toward Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn.

“We finally got a man who I think really showed some intelligence,” said Butch Heisterkamp, chairman of the Carroll County Democratic Party, as he reflected on President-elect Barack Obama’s local success.

A look at the numbers behind the 2008 campaign.

Immediately after polls closed in the Hawkeye State, the Associated Press and other news outlets projected that Sen. Barack Obama had won Iowa’s seven electoral votes.
That timing makes it likely that Obama’s margin of victory over Sen. John McCain will be large.
It was also projected that U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin has retained his seat, fending [...]

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With all of the hullabaloo about both sides’ Get Out The Vote (GOTV) programs today, I thought it might be helpful to outline the basic components that go into every successful Election Day effort.
Right now, staffers for Senators Barack Obama and John McCain are working frantically to keep everything together.  Below, you’ll find a brief [...]

 
While insiders spent time recently thinking about what has made Obama’s campaign successful, most talk of the McCain campaign more was about its missteps than its successes.