Democrat Barack Obama scored a decisive victory over Republican John McCain in the 2008 presidential election last night and claimed victory in a speech delivered in his hometown of Chicago.
If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer. …
It’s been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this date, in this election, at this defining moment, change has come to America.
In his concession speech, McCain noted the significance of Obama’s election.
“A century ago,” McCain said, “President Theodore Roosevelt’s invitation of Booker T. Washington to dine at the White House was taken as an outrage in many quarters. America today is a world away from the cruel and frightful bigotry of that time. There is no better evidence of this than the election of an African American to the presidency of the United States.”
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Republican presidential candidate John McCain said a while back that U.S. troops should have a presence in Iraq until they finish their mission — even if it takes up to ” a hundred years or a thousand years or 10,000 years.”
The liberal online activist group MoveOn.org is now taking that figurative statement and applying it literally to attack McCain. “A hundred years in Iraq — and you thought no one could be worse than George Bush,” MoveOn says in a new advertisement.
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With hundreds of delegates at stake in Super Tuesday voting tomorrow, John McCain and Mitt Romney are continuing their battle for the hearts of conservative voters over the airwaves.
McCain has been the one taking the most heat from establishment conservative commentators, but he is trying to score points by using Romney’s own words against him. In an ad titled “Trust,” McCain’s team highlights Romney emphasizing his independence, noting his vote in a Democratic primary and distancing himself from the time of Republican presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.
Romney’s campaign, meanwhile, has an ad dubbed “Very Close” that compares McCain’s views on hot-button issues like immigration with those of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. Another Romney ad says McCain “Falls Short” in key policy areas.
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Now that the Republican presidential race has all but narrowed to John McCain and Mitt Romney, the two of them are clashing over who is the “true conservative” in the race.
McCain staked his claim in a new television ad that characterizes him as “a footsoldier in the Reagan revolution” who went to Congress when Ronald Reagan was elected president in 1980.
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Rudy Giuliani, once the frontrunner in the Republican presidential race but lately an also-ran, certainly doesn’t think he needs newspaper endorsements. In fact, he’s boasting about not getting them from top papers in Florida.
They picked rival John McCain instead because he’s the more “liberal” candidate, Giuliani says in a new ad. It’s a clever, if somewhat desperate, sales pitch.
Republican Ron Paul also released a trio of ads, and McCain attacked rival Mitt Romney in an ad titled “A Tale Of Two Mitts.”
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