WASHINGTON - The top Republican contender in most presidential polls for 2008 slapped the Bush administration Sunday over its domestic spying program - and its insistence on using national security as a political stick. Arizona Sen. John McCain said he doesn't think President Bush has the authority that he has claimed to wiretap Americans without warrants. But McCain added Bush probably could get the OK from Congress.
This research examines influences on the 2008 presidential election. With an unpopular Republican president, an unpopular war, and a slumping economy, 2008 looked to be a good year for the Democrats. On the other hand, open seat elections historically have been close and less affected by retrospective considerations. Moreover, partisanship, ideological polarization, and contested nominations in both parties inclined the electorate to an even division. McCain's more centrist record and Obama's race also seemed to favor the Republicans. Taken together, these factors set the stage for a closely decided election. It was shaping up that way in the polls until the Wall Street meltdown hit in mid-September. It was the "game changer" that tipped the election to Obama.
...Real growth in the gross domestic product (GDP) was -0.2% in the fourth quarrer of 2... Bush, particularly on matters of fiscal policy and earmarks. The Senate voting records for McCain...
Employers added 200,000 jobs in December and the unemployment rate ticked down to 8.5 percent -- the lowest level since February 2009, the government said on Friday, in a report that confirms a gradual but significant upswing in the economy across the board. Economists had expected job growth of 140,000 to 160,000, so private-sector job growth of 212,000 was a surprise.
... Shierholz, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a think tank in Washington. Nevertheles... news," said Douglas Holtz- Eakin, former domestic policy adviser to Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., in th...
... where, why, and how legislative and even policy successes turned into political failures that ende... who had supported his opponent, John McCain, tended to accept the McCain campaign's portrayal ... exclusively to the economy and other domestic policy issues. Popular disaffection with the Iraq ...
...* An economist and policy guru, Holtz-Eakin is president of the American Act... During 2007 and 2008, he was director of domestic and economic policy for Sen. John McCain's (R-Ariz...
WASHINGTON - Anxious to ease deepening political tensions with the states, President Barack Obama on Monday told governors he wants to speed up their ability to enforce his signature health care law on their own terms. But his concession goes only so far: He warned he won't allow states to weaken the law. He also told them not to vilify their own states' public workers while struggling with spending cuts.
... economist Douglas Holtz-Eakin, leading domestic policy adviser to 2008 GOP presidential candidate John McCain. "If you can't control eligibility or the benefits...
In 2007 [John McCain] told the Boston Globe, "The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should." He has acknowledged that economics is not his strong suit. So he turned to people he has called "real strong economic minds"-people like Phil Gramm-for advice. Gramm was McCain's campaign co-chair and top economic adviser until he was forced to resign for his "this is a mental recession" and "we've become a nation of whiners" remarks. Gramm, the former Texas senator who pushed banking deregulation as chair of the Senate Banking Committee and then left for (surprise!) a top banking job, engineered the deregulated system that has fostered much of our current banking/housing meltdown. Deregulation and corporate consolidation also produced the savings and loan debacle,...
...Economic/Domestic Policy. In 2007 McCain told the Boston Globe, "The...
..., MCCAIN CAMPAIGN SENIOR DOMESTIC POLICY ADVISER. NANCY PFOTENHAUER, ...
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