I’m obsessed with the number five today. Five days until the West Virginia primary. Time Magazine’s Top-Five Mistakes Clinton made. Five opponents possibly taken down by Obama. Yeah, I’m stretching it, but I thought this would be a great opportunity to make a top-five list of my favorite political cartoons of the presidential race so […]

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A story on Politico analyzes how John McCain’s age could become an issue in the general election by looking at how age affected two other campaigns: Ronald Reagan’s 1984 reelection and Bob Dole’s 1996 run against Bill Clinton.
The age issue wasn’t a big deal for Reagan - he won reelection by a landslide - because […]

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The AP published an analysis of the governor’s race this month, saying the race could be affected by national trends- namely the 2008 presidential candidates. Gov. Christine Gregoire’s endorsement of Barack Obama might help her attract voters from his demographic.
Gregoire’s somewhat surprising endorsement of Obama shores up cred with party liberals and young people, and […]

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John McCain recently proposed a “gas tax holiday” - a suspension of the 18.4-cents-per-gallon gas tax during the summer, which is peak driving season. Hillary Clinton has also supported this plan to ease the pain of skyrocketing gas prices. Now economists - and Barack Obama - are saying it’s a bad idea.
Here’s what Princeton economics […]

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Sen. John McCain will be coming to town. 
Again. 
Or at least that’s the scuttlebutt at Politicker WA:
Presidential candidate John McCain (R-Ariz.), the presumptive Republican nominee, is expected to come to Seattle in two weeks for a global warming event in what will be his first visit to the state since the Feb. 9 caucuses when he visited the Seattle Westin on a […]

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The Republican National Committee isn’t happy about this anti-McCain ad:

On Monday, the RNC demanded that NBC, CNN and MSNBC stop airing the DNC-sponsored commercial, saying that it deliberately distorts McCain’s words.
At issue is McCain’s answer, in January, to a question about Bush’s theory that troops could be in Iraq for 50 years.
McCain said: “Maybe 100. […]

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CNN reports that a poll released Monday by The Associated Press and Ipsos shows Hillary Clinton beating John McCain by nine points in a hypothetical match-up. Clinton would dominate McCain 50 percent to 41 percent, while things would appear much bleaker for Barack Obama - he and McCain are statistically tied because his two-point lead […]

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The North Carolina Republican Party has decided to run the following ad against the wishes of the presumptive Republican Nominee, John McCain.
The ad connects Rev. Wright to Obama to a down-ticket race in NC.

McCain sent a letter of protest to the NC GOP, asking them to drop the ad:
This ad does not live up […]

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Yes, he did.
But Rep. Ron Paul still got 16 percent of the vote, and former Ark. Gov. Mike Huckabee 11 percent. As The Boston Globe points out, that’s not terribly unusual:
In 2000, the last contested Republican presidential race, competitors were still winning sizable shares of the vote well after George W. Bush had secured the […]

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During his four day tour of New Orleans, Sen. John McCain said today that the Bush administration completely failed in their response to Hurricane Katrina. His long list of mistakes included “unqualified people in charge” and “a failure of communications.”
“We know we didn’t have the right kind of leadership … where government agencies were getting […]

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