"I think the McCain folks realize if they can get this thing down in the mud, drag Obama into the mud, that's where they have the best advantage to win," said Matthew Dowd, who worked with many top McCain campaign advisers when he was President Bush's chief strategist in the 2004 campaign, but who has since had a falling out with the White House. "If they stay up at 10,000 feet, they don't." Full Story »
Posted by Terry Gamble
This report pulls together information on several recent false McCain campaign claims that have been reported on and evaluated separately in other reports and have been widely condemned. It acknowledges and identifies past false claims put forth by Obama's campaign. It contains quotes critical of McCain's recent distortions from Democrats, Republicans and independents. But in the end, it admits that telling lies and standing by them seem to have been effective in boosting McCain's standing with the voters.
