John McCain

More Fun With Maps: The Great American Pizza-Guns-Strip Clubs Map

Floating Sheeppizza, guns and strip malls map​ Maps are cool. Maps generated by geography academics are very cool. And maps generated by geography academics which show the relative density of pizza to guns to strip clubs are just flat out brilliant. Which is what this map, by Floating Sheep, a ... More >>

Guess Who's Not Coming to Obama's Super Bowl Party?

When the White House released a list of 15 Congress members and Senators who had been invited to watch the Super Bowl with President Obama, Californians quickly noticed the invitations did not extend west of the Colorado River. No Antonio Villaraigosa, no Xavier Becerra -- not even Arnold. In fact ... More >>

Florida's Electoral Do-Over: Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun

In the battleground four years later

Last Night: McCain Ends Campaign in Home State Arizona

And like that, it was over. Last night John McCain lost the election to Barack Obama and ended his campaign at the Biltmore Resort in his home state of Arizona. Our sister paper Phoenix New Times was on the scene as the results came in. As you'll see with a few of the McCain supporters in these phot ... More >>

Election '08: Blogging Live in Las Vegas at John McCain's Last-Gasp Rally

BY MARC COOPER Yo via Blackberry! I'm at McCain rally right now Monday nite in Henderson, Nevada on outskirts of Las Vegas. A poor turnout my friends. I got here 3 hrs ago to beat the crowds. But my daughter just arrived as program is beginning and she got in. This venue holds about 5k and is n ... More >>

Election '08: Will Obama Beat 325?

It's Going to Take a Whole Lot More Than a Democratic Majority to Save Us

Hope, not faith

The Red Scare and Average Joes

What we talk about when we talk about socialism

Election '08: Watch Christopher Hitchens Call McCain "Borderline Senile"

BY MARC COOPER My old comrade Christopher Hitchens rips it up on MSNBC's Hardball calling out McCain as "weird" and "borderline senile." Hitch also issues some pungent words about Failin' Palin and notes how Obama has outflanked McCain on the right when it comes to Pakistan. You may not always agre ... More >>

Whip the Vote: Devo Plays for Obama Back Home in Swingin' Ohio

Mark Mothersbaugh: "Some counties in this state were won by as little as nine votes"

Colin Powell Delivers the KO Punch to McCain

Redemption time

Election '08: McCain's Neglected Veterans

BY AMY SILVERMAN His fame is based on his POW status, but Senator John McCain’s made a point of voting against fellow veterans. IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE to be a veteran in John McCain's home state, stop by the Justa Center in downtown Phoenix. On a Thursday morning not long ago, a v ... More >>

Election '08: Arise, Ye Socialists!

BY MARC COOPER Now that McCain-Palin have reverted to an overt form of McCarthyism as a last-minute ploy, repeatedly labeling Barack Obama as a "socialist," it's only logical to expect that the last few days of their campaign will become overtly racist. Those who know me, know very well I'm hardly ... More >>

Election '08: McCain Wins

Yes, I have to admit that John McCain won. Not the recent debate but the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation dinner during which candidates roast each other in New York. Smith was the groundbreaking, four-time, Irish-American New York governor and the dinner is a fundraiser for Catholic charities. ... More >>

Election Humor Video: Same Bat Candidates, Same Bat Campaign?

You know, I thought one of the best lines that Barack Obama got in as he and John McCain roasted one another at last night's Alfred E. Smith charity dinner in New York, was the one where he sent up criticism of his popularity, even his perceived invincibility, in a supremely geeky way: "Contrary to ... More >>

Election '08: The Final Debate -- You Don't Need a Weatherman..

BY MARC COOPER The McCain-Palin Campaign, October 2008 No more rulers. No more books. No more Johnny Mac's dirty looks. I take back what I said yesterday. I had a GREAT time watching the final presidential debate. Not only because Bob Schieffer did a better job than I expected, but because I kne ... More >>

Florida, Florida, Florida: Where Hillary Supporters Turn to Palin and Working-Class Men Love Joe Biden

A week in the battleground

Election '08: Obama Up by 14 Points

BY MARC COOPER Obama Up By 14 Points I think this latest CBS/New York Times poll showing Obama leading nationally 53-39% is the political news headline of the week (along with nearly 90% of Americans believing the country is on the wrong track and Sarah Palin's favorability rating falling to a rat ... More >>

Last Night: Presidential Comic Book Debate Drink at Golden Apple

Election '08: McCain's Watermelon Strategy, Plus Palin's War on Verbs

BY MARC COOPER I made a passing reference to this the other day, but now it's really starting to bug me. The McCain-Palin street rallies really are beginning to take on many of the chilling aspects of what I witnessed from the proto-fascist right-wing in El Salvador twenty years ago. It was always ... More >>

Tuesday's Presidential Debate: A Death Rattle Not Only for the McCain Campaign but for a Political Era

Flatlining

Election '08: The Terrorists Strike, the Markets Crumble . . . Plus, McCain's Radical Dance

BY MARC COOPER We had been told since the beginning that the Taliban, al Qaeda and jihadists in general worked on what was called a "biblical calendar." None of this faster, quicker B.S. They would take their time in restoring the Caliphate. Fair enough. But who knew the Weather Underground had ... More >>

Election '08: Seven-Out -- McCain No Longer Serious Presidential Candidate

BY MARC COOPER Here's the only tin-foil if not exactly the silver lining in yesterday's literally depressing economic news: Next year's bread lines will be administered by a Democratic, not a Republican, administration. You can bet on it. For personal reasons (like now I have to work till I'm 113) ... More >>

Election '08: Contempt

BY MARC COOPER What a shriveled tiny man John McCain turns out to be. And I don't mean physically. I mean his soul. Chris Matthews characterized McCain on MSNBC as a "troll" who was "angry at the world." No kidding. I am not the first to have noticed that in the first presidential debate, John ... More >>

Election '08: McFarce

BY MARC COOPER Call me naive or even delusional, but I think we can surmise the political implications of McCain's transparent campaign-suspension gimmick. I'm standing by my view that these past two weeks we have witnessed the implosion of his campaign. The American people take this catastrophic t ... More >>

Election '08: MoDo Conjures New Obama Advisor: West Wing's President Bartlet

BY MARC COOPER I was around a lot of gloomy Democrats today who are more or less convinced that McCain's got this thing in the bag. They came to me looking to get cheered up because I've been writing columns to the contrary. In the end, of course, I don't know. I can only guess. But one of my arg ... More >>

Election '08: The McCain in Spain Fails Mostly to Explain

BY MARC COOPER I'm a bit surprised by how little coverage The Great McCain-Spain Gaffe has gotten (Well, not really that surprised given the relative insularity of the American media/political complex). But anyway you cut it, you've got to be alarmed. McCain's campaign is now officially saying tha ... More >>

Lehman Brothers Call McCain's Bluff: More Than Lipstick Needed to Mask the Meltdown

Sorry, Phil Gramm, but this time we're not imagining it

The iPol Shuffle: What Should Be On Obama's iPod From Now Until Election Day

Election '08: Who Change What?

According to their new campaign ads, McCain and Palin, or, rather Palin and McCain are the new mavericks, the real agents of change. They'll clean up Washington with their maverick ways and outsider approaches. Uh huh. But they're no agents of change. Rather, they're alchemists, turning their hist ... More >>

North Hollywood High or McCain Mansion?

How hilarious to see Talking Points Memo and other bloggers track down that interesting "mansion" used as a set piece behind John McCain last night at the RNC. McCain must be trying to match, in his own way, the fake, creepy Greek columns chosen as Barack Obama's backdrop by some real idiots in the ... More >>

John McCain's Favorite Songs of the Past 100 Years

Blender recently posted a list of John McCain's favorite songs. Sure, you could make fun of him for choosing kinda gay stuff like Perez Hilton did, but the more telling fact is that the most recent song on this list is more than thirty years old. Think about that. Thirty-one years have come and ... More >>

Stupid McCampaign Tricks

With Obamapalooza in full swing, John McCain shouts into the media void

Queer Town: McCain Plays Small Ball in California

On the evening of June 26, with the right kind of ears, a steady, collective groan could be heard from thousands of gay Republicans throughout California…followed by an eerie silence. Their man, Senator John McCain, decided to play small ball in his quest for the White House, and came out with a ... More >>

The Obama Moment: Who Said the Revolution Wouldn't Be Televised?

While McCain tried on the cloak of change and the Clintons avoided admitting defeat, America made history

A McHillary McShame Mash-up

The week McCain's not-so-straight talk met Clinton's funny number-crunching

Daedalus and TI$A team up for Obama video

Well, in case you were wavering on whether to vote for McCain or Obama, this should help you decide. Sa-Ra's front man Taz Arnold (TI$A) wanders through L.A. dancing to a great rhythm by Daedalus.

McHillary and True Believers Miss the Message of Obama's Misstep

Who's bitter now?

Will the Next President Try to Out-green California?

A solar White House

The Unlikely Comeback of John McCain, Maverick Warmonger

How Johnny got his groove back

The 3 Pros and 5 Cons of John McCain

5 Pitfalls for Progressives to Avoid in 2006

The 3 Pros and 5 Cons of John McCain

War Party

John Kerry gets his marching orders in New York

The Burning Men

Forest fires rage in the West while politicians try to turn prevention into pork

Primary Considerations

On John McCain, Bill Bradley and Wally Knox

On The Eve of Super Tuesday

The presidential hopefuls – and hopeless – do L.A.

Death on the Menu

Endorsements

New Hampshire Scramble

The McCain firestorm, the Bush bust and the new Democratic divide