Saturday, March 8, 2008
Official GOP Presdential Nominee!
In the News: With the Senator's win in the Super Tuesday Part Deux Primaries (March 5th in Texas, Ohio, Rhode Island and Vermont), McCain clinched the Gop nimination, forcing out Huckabee to win more than the required 1,191 delegates to earn the nomination. After his expected sweep, McCain also received the backing of his former rival Mike Huckabee, and a rather awkward, distanced endorsement from President George W. Bush II. McCain went on to distance himself from the promonent, controversial televangalist John Hagee, who endorsed him last month (Hagee has been very anti-Semitic, Catholic, social issues, etc.), and pick up former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiornia as the "campaign surrogate," charged with fundraising and "getting-out-the-vote." McCain wrapped up his week with leading a congressional delegation to visit to the Middle East and Europe, and will return on Easter Sunday.
Sunday, March 2, 2008
Who's It Gonna Be?
There have only been two real questions that have been facing the McCain camp for some time now: Who's going to be his running mate, and who's he going to be running against?
Well, these questions are still up for debate, so it's been unclear what the answer will be, but as time has chugged along, we've come to a point where as of Tuesday, March 4th, we may have an answer to who McCain will be running against, which ultimately may lead to an answer to the first question. (The idea of picking out a running mate based on the opponent has been tossed around quite a few times so far!)
However, over the past week, McCain has been a man of honor, taking the high road against the petty bashing against his Democratic rival, Barack Obama. While at a McCain rally in Ohio, Bill Cunningham made several references to Barack's middle name, "Hussein." This, was obviously done with the intent of stirring up trouble and trying to scare swing voters away from supporting him because his name sounds unamerican. McCain, however, immediately denounced Cunningham's actions and remarks- which resulted in Cunningham's prompt pulling of support from John McCain.
With McCain squabbling with his supporters, who knows whether it's helped him gain support from swing voters, or lose support of the far right for nit picking at Cunningham's remarks.
I suppose we'll find out sometime soon.
Well, these questions are still up for debate, so it's been unclear what the answer will be, but as time has chugged along, we've come to a point where as of Tuesday, March 4th, we may have an answer to who McCain will be running against, which ultimately may lead to an answer to the first question. (The idea of picking out a running mate based on the opponent has been tossed around quite a few times so far!)
However, over the past week, McCain has been a man of honor, taking the high road against the petty bashing against his Democratic rival, Barack Obama. While at a McCain rally in Ohio, Bill Cunningham made several references to Barack's middle name, "Hussein." This, was obviously done with the intent of stirring up trouble and trying to scare swing voters away from supporting him because his name sounds unamerican. McCain, however, immediately denounced Cunningham's actions and remarks- which resulted in Cunningham's prompt pulling of support from John McCain.
With McCain squabbling with his supporters, who knows whether it's helped him gain support from swing voters, or lose support of the far right for nit picking at Cunningham's remarks.
I suppose we'll find out sometime soon.
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