(CNN) - As Arizona Sen. John McCain travels to South Carolina Thursday to show his support for Mitt Romney, national Democrats point to the duo's rivalry from the last presidential cycle.
The Democratic National Committee released a new web video showcasing McCain's 2008 attacks against Romney, many of which toe the same line the DNC now uses to paint Romney as a flip-flopper.
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(CNN) - With President Obama back in Iowa today, I went back to look at my interview with then-candidate Obama in Des Moines on October 31, 2008 – only days before his election. He reflected on how far he had come in Iowa.
"There were a bunch of people out here who signed up for our campaign when we had almost no money, very few endorsements," he said. "The polls weren't good for us."
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Washington (CNN) – An effort to pay off Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign debt gives two lucky winners the chance to spend a day in the Big Apple with the current secretary of state's husband, former President Bill Clinton.
By contributing as little as $10 online, people are entered to win a trip for two to New York for a day of adventure with the 42nd president. This will be the second time Bill Clinton has raffled off his time to help pay down his wife's 2008 obligations. He made a similar jaunt last year when the debt total was at $700,000.
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Washington (CNN) - No one is immune from an audit, including President Barack Obama. The Federal Election Commission has begun an audit of Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, according to Roll Call newspaper.
The campaign, a record-breaking fund-raising machine that brought in nearly $750 million for then-candidate Obama, attributed most of its contributions to small-dollar donors. But the size of the haul almost guaranteed an audit would eventually occur.
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(CNN) – Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential bid may have ended over two years ago, but one enduring aspect of her campaign remains: the debt.
In an effort to help pay down his wife's remaining campaign debt, former President Bill Clinton is once again lending a hand to bring in donations.
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(CNN) - Voters this year may be more anxious than angry.
Just 35 percent think the country's on the right track, according to exit polls Tuesday night, to 62 percent who think things are heading in the wrong direction.
Voters aren't quite as pessimistic as they were just two years ago, when those numbers were 21 and 74 percent - but they're unhappier than they were back in 2006, when 41 percent felt the nation was on the right track, to 55 percent who said they were headed in the wrong direction.
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Washington (CNN) - Many gays and lesbians supported Barack Obama at the polls in 2008, and they've backed him once he took office. But one topic in particular has created a firestorm among the vocal constituency historically aligned with the Democratic Party.
Gay activists and bloggers and others unleashed a wave of criticism against Obama after a federal judge on Wednesday ruled California's Proposition 8 - which outlawed same-sex marriage - unconstitutional.
The reasoning behind the criticism, they said, is a lukewarm response from the White House on the historic ruling - and Obama's stance against same-sex marriage.
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(CNN) - Fred Thompson, the actor and former Tennessee Republican senator, says he knows why his failed 2008 presidential campaign didn't make it past the first few primaries.
"I had an insurmountable object to overcome in that presidential bid and that was the wisdom and the inherent good judgment of the American people," Thompson told John Stewart Thursday on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show."
"So it worked out for everybody," Thompson said after the audience's laughter and applause subsided.
The former "Law & Order" actor was on Stewart's show to promote his new book, "Teaching the Pig to Dance."
(CNN) - Sarah Palin, speaking to reporters Friday after testifying against a Tennessee man accused of breaking in to her personal e-mail account, dismissed the defense's argument that the incident was nothing more than "silly prank."
"I don't think an illegal action like this is a prank," Palin said after the courtroom appearance in Knoxville, Tennessee. "Not when you consider how impacting it was on a presidential election. It went beyond a prank."
Palin compared the e-mail hack to an office break-in, with "documents stolen and disclosed to the rest of the world."
Federal prosecutors are presenting their case against University of Tennessee student David Kernell, 22, who is charged with felony identity theft, wire fraud, intentionally accessing Palin's e-mail account in September 2008 without authorization, and obstructing an FBI investigation.
Washington (CNN) – Thirty-two of the 178 House Republicans who voted against the Senate health care reform plan represent districts that President Obama carried in the 2008 presidential election. They are listed below:
Judy Biggert IL-13 Brian Bilbray CA-50 Mary Bono Mack CA-45 Ken Calvert CA-44 Dave Camp MI-4 John Campbell CA-48 Anh "Joseph" Cao LA-2 Michael Castle* DE-AL Charles Dent PA-15 David Dreier CA-26 Randy Forbes VA-4 Elton Gallegly CA-24 Jim Gerlach PA-6 Mark Kirk* IL-10 Leonard Lance NJ-7 Tom Latham IA-4 FULL POST
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