A new book reveals for the first time the drama that unfolded on election night 2008, when McCain campaign staff battled Sarah Palin over a concession speech she planned to deliver. An excerpt published in The Daily Beast includes both the victory and concession speeches Palin had prepared to give, ...
MONTPELIER STATION, Va. -- It certainly wasn't this way in 1820. Watching the sun fall behind the mountains from the front porch of James Madison's Montpelier home, I am alone. In Madison's time, there was beauty but, I imagine, not much quiet at the bustling homestead. A tour revealed the rest of ...
The last time you watched your candidate lose an election, did it feel like you were losing the election yourself? Your body's biochemistry may have thought so. A study in science journal "PLoS One," from researchers at Duke University and the University of Michigan, showed that following the ...
Can Americans do strategy? The question is particularly relevant these days as President Obama hosts a series of much-watched White House meetings with his national security team to craft a strategy for U.S. policy regarding Afghanistan and Pakistan (or "AfPak," as Washington policy wonks say). In ...
On CNN's "State of the Union" Sunday, Sen. John McCain said he was still very fond of his former running mate, Sarah Palin, and considers her among what he sees as a strong Republican field of presidential candidates in 2012. McCain admitted that there was tension between Palin and his staff, and ...
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is taking the opposite route of most defeated presidential candidates: rather than quickly bowing out of national politics, McCain is working to become a transformative force in the Republican Party, Politico reported Friday. Concerned about the GOP's direction, McCain has ...
Only a minority of Arizona Republicans believe that GOP Sen. John McCain is doing a good job of representing the party's base, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll conducted Sept. 24. ...
Sen. John McCain is not particularly popular in his home state of Arizona, although he doesn't have much to worry about in getting re-elected next year, according to a Public Policy Polling survey conducted Sept. 18-21. ...
In a one-on-one interview with Katie Couric, Glenn Beck says would have much preferred Hillary Clinton to be president instead of Barack Obama, and might have even voted for her against John McCain. Beck called McCain is "a weird progressive, like Theodore Roosevelt" and said definitively, "I think ...
CHARLESTON, S.C. -- South Carolina can never escape its ghosts -- not that it wants to. And you can't change the rules for town halls, even if you do want to. The crowd at Monday morning's town hall meeting at The Citadel – featuring the marquee duo of Senators and good buddies John McCain ...
