Day: May 23, 2008

Strategists believe McCain can beat Obama by margin exceeding Bush’s victory in ’04. See also: Cindy’s income

Obama promises eased restrictions for Cuban Americans who want to visit or send money to the island.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s wife, Cindy, released her 2006 tax return under pressure on Friday, showing she paid $1.7 million in taxes on about $6 million in income.

Much of her income came from the Arizona beer distributorship she inherited from her father.

Rep. tells constituents that Democrats "stretched the facts" on ability to end the war in the 2006 campaign.

Clinton brings up Robert F. Kennedy’s June 1968 assassination to explain why she’s still in the race.

FOUNTAIN HILLS, Ariz. (AP) — John McCain, seeking to become the oldest elected first-term president, gets an in-depth skin cancer check every few months because of a medical history his own dermatologist calls “remarkable” for its number of dangerous melanomas….

"I don’t think there’s much likelihood that I’m on that list, to tell you the truth," Romney says of McCain’s VP choice.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush starts raising money for John McCain’s campaign next week, but with the three fundraisers closed and McCain attending only one, there will be almost no chance for the public to see the outgoing and incoming Republican party leaders together….

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Military officers who denounce policies they helped implement are “cowardly,” the top U.S. officer charged on Friday in an apparent reference to retired generals’ attacks on Iraq war policy.