Editors’ Blog - 2008
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10.17.08 | 6:11 pm
If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Hire ‘Em

The company John McCain has hired to make all these sleazy robocalls appears to be the same company that made what McCain called “hate calls” against him in 2000.

10.17.08 | 6:43 pm
A Doozy

Apparently Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) went on a rabid fear-mongering anti-Obama tear tonight on Hardball. Video excerpts soon …

Late Update: In all her right-wing madhattery, we present Michele Bachmann:

10.17.08 | 7:47 pm
Going Down Dirty

We’re going to see an avalanche of this stuff over the next two weeks. But it looks like Wisconsin Republicans are going to be going all out in their voter suppression efforts. The Wisconsin GOP is currently recruiting “Milwaukee area veterans, policeman, security personnel and firefighters to work as poll watchers on election day at inner city polling places.”

10.17.08 | 8:57 pm
Midnight In the Big Sleazy

McCain’s robocalls too sleazy for Sen. Collins (R) of Maine.

10.17.08 | 10:55 pm
McCain’s Legions

If you thought those McCain-Palin crowds were feral inside the auditoriums, they’ve even more rancid waiting in line to get in …

10.18.08 | 1:41 pm
Election Central Saturday Roundup

The Obama campaign outspending McCain on TV by four to one, and are expected to announce a recording-setting $100,000,000+ in September fundraising. That and other political news in today’s Election Central Saturday Roundup.

10.18.08 | 7:13 pm
McCain: Black, Black, Black!

McCain’s latest: claiming that Obama will turn the IRS “into a giant welfare agency.” And this even though McCain’s rationale for this claim is Obama’s support for a refundable tax credit, something McCain himself supports as a centerpiece of his health care plan. Par for the course, really: if you figure in the robocalls and recent ads, McCain’s entire campaign is now comprised of innuendo and lies meant to tie Obama to various stereotypes of African-Americans and of course Arab terrorism. His purported foreign policy experience hasn’t been part of the campaign’s message in weeks. Just black, black, black, terrorist, terrorist, terrorist.

10.18.08 | 8:54 pm
McCain’s Gambit

McCain’s southwest Ohio campaign chair steps up voter suppression efforts.

Late Update: The same guy, Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters, is also friends with the publisher of a local racist website.

10.19.08 | 8:36 am
New Strategy

McCain camp to focus on pro-America regions like “real Virginia.”