I've long worried that John McCain could be, as Arianna Huffington put it yesterday at the Personal Democracy Forum conference, a "Trojan Horse" candidate for the GOP. His perceived status as a maverick and his cultural savvy has long inoculated him from the troubles plaguing the Republican Party and boosted his image among young voters. Out of all the GOP contenders, he seemed most capable of reviving the Republican brand among a generation trending heavily Democratic .
According to a new poll by Democracy Corps , that image of McCain the Maverick has shattered.
Since Democracy Corps' last survey in April, John McCain's favorable ratings among young voters has dropped from 34 to 30%, and his unfavorable ratings have jumped over ten points, rising from 37 to 49%. Two of the supposedly biggest advantages a McCain candidacy brings to the GOP - his popularity with independents and his "liberal" views on immigration reform - also took serious hits...
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Democrats may tax health benefits - The Boston Globe WASHINGTON - In the last month of the presidential campaign, it was one of Barack Obama and Joe Biden’s strongest attack lines: John McCain, they warned, would “tax your healthcare benefits for the first time ever.”But now, some Congressional Democrats in charge of health reform are talking about doing just that. ... more
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This was not just another election. The last time we had a presidential election, the Left tried to get a brazen traitor elected - namely John Kerry. This new President from the Left is even more than that. Obama was no traitor, because he never was really on our side in the first place. Obama was really a foreign candidate - in spirit, funding, and citizenship.
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Friday, 28 November 2008
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Out in California, they recalled 143 million pounds of tainted beef. That’s one triple-stacked burger at Wendy’s. A hundred forty three million pounds of tainted beef! I believe that’s the largest amount of tainted meat since Roger Clemens.”
-David Letterman
“John McCain seems reinvigorated. He has a new campaign slogan, ‘he’ll lead you into the 21st century.’ [...]... more
One of Maryland’s political stars, former lieutenant governor Michael S. Steele, will deliver the headline speech at the Silver Anniversary Dinner Saturday as part of the Republican Party of Virginia’s GOP Advance. The Advance, an annual gathering of Republican activists in Virginia, will be held this weekend at the Homestead [...]
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ALBANY—Representative Kirsten Gillibrand's name is persistently circulating --along with many others--as a possible replacement for Hillary Clinton in the Senate, but the idea may dissolve if Democrats think that would mean sacrificing a congressional seat.
Gillibrand's district, the 20th, is spread across 10 upstate counties from Columbia to Essex and was represented by conservative Republicans from 1978--when Republican Gerald Solomon defeated Representative Ned Pattison, ... more
Great op-ed from Dallas News:
… But the truth is, if U.S. economic policy looked a lot more like Ron Paul’s ideal than what we’ve had these past decades, the nation wouldn’t be tottering on the financial abyss. Dr. Paul has long argued that an economy built on easy credit, insatiable consumption and deficit spending is a time bomb. He backs a national economic model based on savings, investment and production.
An economy that depends so heavily on government interve... more
A new TIME Spring supplement Style and Design addresses the influence the Millennial Generation has over products and even purchase power they have in influencing their Baby Boomer parents.
The first piece , a feature article, claims that Millennials seek the luxury and name brand products their parents do but they want them without the financial stability their parents have worked their lives to build.
"According to Resource Interactive, an Ohio-based marketing company, young adults in... more
I'm about to get on a plane (again, sigh). Here are some must-read stories around the tubes today:
Anya Kamenetz pulls together a lot of recent data about young voters and takes a stab at outlining a youth policy agenda.
The New York Times looks at a PEW survey from December and wakes up to the fact that young people get their political news through social networks on the web - aka digital word-of-mouth:
According to interviews and recent surveys, younger voters tend ... more
And so it begins. Not even a week after I posted about John McCain's strengths among young voters and the potential of his daughter to be a media-darling/spokesperson, the AP up and publishes a profile of the McCain Blogettes and the youth vote, full of star-struck observations such as this gem:
Meghan decided to blog about the campaign, with help from a couple of friends, after graduating last year from Columbia University.
Her Web site mixes behind-the-scenes photos and videos fr... more
The DNC Youth Council is getting ready to hold three more trainings on how to become delegates to the Democratic National Convention in August:
Last week, we held our first conference call training on the process to be a delegate from New Mexico. The training was extremely successful and we are eager to get underway with our next round of calls.
Below one will find a listing of some of our upcoming calls. Please spread the word to as many people as possible about these. On each call we wil... more
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