John McCain

Examples of John McCain in the following topics:

• The 2008 Election

  • In the United States presidential election of 2008, Democrat Barack Obama defeated Republican John McCain.
  • Democrat Barack Obama, the then junior Senator from Illinois, defeated Republican John McCain, the senior Senator from Arizona.
  • Obama’s opponent in 2008 was John McCain, a Vietnam veteran and Republican senator from Arizona.
  • McCain faced a number of challenges during the campaign.
  • John McCain supported the war while Barack Obama opposed it.

• The 2008 Presidential Election

  • Barack Obama, the junior U.S. senator from Illinois, was nominated as the Democratic candidate while John McCain, the senior U.S. senator from Arizona, was nominated as the Republican candidate.
  • Obama was more successful than McCain in separating himself from the unpopular George W.
  • Meanwhile the McCain campaign introduced Sarah Palin as the vice presidential candidate hoping to balance McCain's more extensive experience with the potential of a relatively unknown politician.
  • While John McCain won the majority vote in traditionally Republican states and in his home state of Arizona, Barack Obama's wins in his home state of Illinois, the Northeast, and the swing states of Ohio and Pennsylvania precluded a McCain victory.
  • The projected electoral vote count came to 365 for Obama and 173 for McCain.

• The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002

  • Its chief sponsors were Senators Russ Feingold (, D-WI) and John McCain (, R-AZ).
  • Although the legislation is known as "McCain–Feingold," the Senate version is not the bill that became law.
  • However, in December 2003, the Supreme Court upheld most of the legislation in McConnell v.
  • In McConnell v.
  • On December 10, 2003, it issued a complicated decision that upheld the key provisions of McCain-Feingold.

• Campaigning: Traditional Media, New Media, and Campaign Advertisements

  • In the 2008 campaign, Republican candidate Senator John McCain created a unique space to engage with journalists, inviting them to travel with him on his campaign bus, called "the Straight Talk Express," in reference to his engagement with journalists
  • In the 2008 campaign, Republican candidate Senator John McCain created a unique space to engage with journalists, inviting them to travel with him throughout the course of his campaign on his campaign bus, called "the Straight Talk Express" in reference to his engagement with journalists.

• Regulating Campaign Finance

  • The amount spent on the presidential race alone was $2.4 billion, and over $1 billion of that was spent by the campaigns of the two major candidates: Barack Obama spent $730 million in his election campaign, and John McCain spent $333 million.
  • The amount spent on the presidential race alone was $2.4 billion, and over $1 billion of that was spent by the campaigns of the two major candidates: Barack Obama spent $730 million in his election campaign, and John McCain spent $333 million.
  • In 2004 Bush and Democrats John Kerry and Howard Dean chose not to take matching funds in the primary.
  • In 2008, Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, and Republicans John McCain, Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney and Ron Paul decided not to take primary matching funds.
  • Republican Tom Tancredo and Democrats Chris Dodd, Joe Biden and John Edwards elected to take public financing.

• Switching Parties

• Religious Identity and Politics

  • But since the election of a Catholic president in 1960, John F.
  • According to exit polls in the 2008 Presidential Election, 71% of non-religious whites voted for Democratic candidate Barack Obama, while 74% of white Evangelical Christians voted for Republican candidate John McCain.

• The Gallup Organization

  • In 2008, Gallup interviewed no fewer than 1,000 U.S. adults each day, providing the most watched daily tracking poll of the race between John McCain and Barack Obama.Gallup also conducts 1,000 interviews per day, 350 days out of the year, among both landline and cell phones across the U.S. for its health and well-being survey.

• Campaign Finance Reform

  • The Congress passed the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA), also called the McCain-Feingold bill after its chief sponsors, John McCain and Russ Feingold .

• Voter Turnout

  • Senator John McCain (R-AZ) won the popular vote in 22 states (denoted in red) to capture 173 electoral votes.
  • Nebraska split its electoral vote when Senator Obama won the electoral vote from Nebraska's 2nd congressional district; the state's other four electoral votes went to Senator McCain.