The hubbub surrounding the upcoming (May 1) release of liberal author Cliff Schecter’s book on John McCain has drudged up, so to speak, his subject’s legendary temper. In this story from the U.S. News and World Report, Liz Hollaron highlights some of recent developments on a front that could hurt McCain in the fall. 
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John McCain has a temper. That’s not exactly a secret, but the extent of his formidable nature has not yet been explored by the Beltway press. But a new book threatens to do add some serious ammo to the charge that the Arizona senator can lose his cool … often. The Real McCain, by Cliff […]

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Democratic Senator John D. Rockefeller IV of West Virginia has now apologize for comments made early in the week that seemed to disparage Sen. John McCain’s Vietnam War record. According to a story in today’s New York Times.
On Monday, Rockefeller …
… told The Charleston Gazette that Mr. McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, could not relate […]

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Want to know what Sen. Barack Obama is up to? If you keep track of his Twitter, you know that he “[t]alked with Communications Workers of America about getting America back to work” and you can follow a link to see his full speech.
What is Twitter, you ask?
Twitter is a service for friends, family, […]

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Oscar Tillman, the head of the Phoenix branch of the NAACP and decades-long leader of Arizona’s black community, says he’s never spoken to or seen Arizona Sen. John McCain.
According to Politico:

John McCain, said Tillman, “has pretty well zero relationship with the African-American community that I know of.”
“I don’t recall him ever attending any function […]

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As ABC News’ Jake Tapper reports, some members of the GOP’s social conservative base are calling for Sen. John McCain to not pick former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney.
Beginning today in a newspaper ad in Prescott, Ariz., where Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., ended his week-long biographical tour, a group of social conservatives has […]

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The U.S. economy is the top issue in America.
A new poll shows Americans are not too happy with the direction America is heading. From the New York Times today:
“In the poll, 81% of respondents said they believed, “things have pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track,” up from 69% a year ago and […]

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Rumors are circulating the Internet this week that Barack Obama would take on Nobel Prize winner and Hollywood darling Al Gore as his running mate.
Channeling David Letterman, the Times Online put together a top ten list of why Obama is likely to pick Gore:
1.) He brings experience to the ticket. Inexperience is […]

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Talking with journalists on his campaign bus, Sen. John McCain said today that he has a list of about 20 names in mind for potential vice-presidential candidates. The 71-one-year McCain has acknowledged the importance of finding an especially competent running mate:
 
“We just started this process of getting together a list of names and having them […]

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Her husband may be out of the presidential race, but that hasn’t stopped Elizabeth Edwards from making her voice be heard. Her current target is Sen. John McCain’s health care plan, which she says wouldn’t cover preexisting conditions like the types of cancer each of them has had:
The wife of former Democratic presidential candidate said […]

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