Some commentators argue that red-baiting was used by John McCain, Republican presidential nominee in the 2008 United States election, when he argued that Democratic nominee Barack Obama's improvised comments on wealth redistribution to “ Joe the Plumber ” was a promotion of “ socialism ”.

Consequently he argued in favor of the conservative candidate in the 2008 campaign, John McCain, and turned his disappointment on Barack Obama's victory into a denial of the " Noam Chomsky-John Pilger-Phillip Adams " view of the USA.

Looking to consolidate the small college ’ s far-flung activities and provide room for future growth, McCain oversaw the move to the Masonic home property, site of the current campus.

In 1898, Scarborough Football Club made the move across town to the Athletic Ground in Seamer Road and remained there until 2007, though the ground was renamed The McCain Stadium in a pioneering sponsorship deal in 1988.

The club had been hoping to move to a new stadium on the outskirts of town by the start of the 2009 – 10 season, with the proceeds from the sale of the McCain Stadium to a housing developer wiping out the club's historic debts in addition to providing the finance to build the new ground.

This move, which would have led to a $ 35 million payout being split equally between Cornerstone and WQED, was approved conditionally by the Federal Communications Commission in 2000, after lobbying by Republican Senator John McCain on behalf of PAX's Lowell Paxson, an intervention which Senator McCain would later deny having made.

On June 5, 2008, Ice-T jokingly stated that he would be voting for John McCain in the 2008 American elections.

I like Charles Krauthammer and Bill O ' Reilly ... If McCain had asked me to campaign for him, I would have.

) For example, if the Democrats had nominated both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for U. S. President in 2008, it would have allowed the Republican candidate ( John McCain ) to easily win ; the voters who preferred both Clinton and Obama over McCain could not have been relied on to solve the strategy coordination problem on their own.

Senator McCain, one of the two original sponsors of campaign finance reform, noted after the decisions that " campaign finance reform is dead " – but predicted a voter backlash once it became obvious how much money corporations and unions now could and would pour into campaigns.

During the 2008 United States presidential election, Eastwood stated that he would be voting for John McCain, citing the fact that he had known McCain since he returned to America in 1973 as a recently released POW.

On April 7, 2005, during the 109th Congress, United States Senator John McCain introduced an amendment to NAGPRA which ( section 108 ) would have changed the definition of " Native American " from being that which " is indigenous to the United States " to " is or was indigenous to the United States.

On December 16, 2009, Senators John McCain ( R-AZ ) and Maria Cantwell ( D-WA ) introduced in the Senate the “ Banking Integrity Act of 2009 ” ( S. 2886 ), which would have reinstated Glass-Steagall Sections 20 and 32, but was not voted on by the Senate.

On January 29, 2007, Schilling announced in an interview that he would support Sen. John McCain, who became the Republican nominee in the 2008 presidential election.

Rumors of affairs, of " weapons of mass destruction " and their alleged removal to other countries " John Kerry is French ," Obama is a Muslim, John McCain had an illegitimate black child Obama's healthcare plan would legalize " death panels ," Shirley Sherrod is a racist -- all of these involve statements whose veracity is in question or are simply false.

Moreover, Arizona senator John McCain expressed his feeling that Rone's death showed that a unified national boxing commission was needed, one which would verify boxers ' records and whether they are banned from one state or not.

"' Questions of honor are raised as much by appearances as by reality in politics, and because they incite public distrust, they need to be addressed no less directly than we would address evidence of expressly illegal corruption ,' McCain wrote in his 2002 memoir Worth the Fighting For.

He stated that a McCain presidency would mean an " imperial overstretch ", particularly arguing that the U. S. should have been preparing to leave Iraq immediately.

In the days leading up to his selection for vice president, McCain jokingly stated that he would pick Brimley: " He's a former Marine and great guy and he's older than I am, so that might work.

Presidential Candidate John McCain referenced a similar symbol, this time represented by an actual person, saying that Senator Obama's tax plan would hurt Joe the Plumber's bottom line.

Were the district to exist now under its 1990s boundaries, Barack Obama would have defeated John McCain in 2008 there by 59 %- 40 %.

Despite his own campaign, Amondson effectively endorsed McCain, and stated that he would probably vote for him.

While Barack Obama carried the old 13th fairly handily with 59 percent of the vote, John McCain would have won the reconfigured 13th with 56 percent of the vote.

However, it is still significantly more Republican than its predecessor ; McCain would have won it with 54 percent.

* 2008 – Rick Singleton, a state legislator from Rhode Island who had already switched from Republican to Independent, switched to Democratic registration and announced that he would be heading " Democrats for McCain " in 2008

* Senator John McCain joked that if Alan Greenspan, then-Chairman of the Federal Reserve, were to die in office, McCain would want to " do like they did in the movie Weekend at Bernie's ...

" After Greenspan retired from the Federal Reserve, McCain later made the same joke that he would appoint him to a commission to review the tax code even if he were dead: " If he's dead, just prop him up and put some dark glasses on him like, like ' Weekend at Bernie's.

In 2008, the Democratic candidate Barack Obama won the county with 95, 356 votes ( 51. 85 %), while Republican John McCain won 84, 242 votes ( 45. 79 %) and independent Ralph Nader won 1, 791 votes ( 0. 97 %).

George W. Bush won the county narrowly in 2004 with 53 % of the vote, while Barack Obama slightly edged out John McCain in 2008, receiving 51 % of the vote countywide becoming the first Democrat to win Saratoga County since 1996.

In the presidential race, Barack Obama won 62, 166 votes, or 59 %, while 42, 031 votes ( 40 % of those cast ) were for John McCain

Two days after the purchase while trotting the horse on Southport beach, McCain noticed that Red Rum appeared lame.

In the 2008 presidential election, 60 % of the county's vote went to Senator John McCain, while 38 % went to Barack Obama.

McCain received 41, 895 votes, which was 81 % of the total, while Democrat Barack Obama received 9, 461 votes, or 18 % of the total, far below his national percentage.

In the 2008 presidential election, 63. 52 % of Wallowa County voters voted for Republican John McCain, while 33. 42 % voted for Democrat Barack Obama and 3. 06 % of voters either voted for a Third Party candidate or wrote in a candidate.

In the 2008 presidential election, 60. 2 percent of Union County voters voted for Republican John McCain, while 38. 63 percent voted for Democrat Barack Obama and 3. 22 percent of voters either voted for a Third Party candidate or wrote in a candidate.

In the 2008 presidential election 59. 77 percent of Umatilla County voters voted for Republican John McCain, while 37. 16 percent voted for Democrat Barack Obama and 3. 07 percent of voters either voted for a Third Party candidate or wrote in a candidate.

In the 2008 presidential election, 48. 92 % of Polk County voters voted for Republican John McCain, while 48. 43 % voted for Democrat Barack Obama and 2. 64 % of voters either voted for a Third Party candidate or wrote in a candidate.

In the 2008 presidential election 61. 94 % of Morrow County voters voted for Republican John McCain, while 34. 62 % voted for Democrat Barack Obama and 3. 44 % of voters either voted for a Third Party candidate or wrote in a candidate.

In the 2008 presidential election, 71. 53 % of Lake County voters voted for Republican John McCain, while 25. 95 % voted for Democrat Barack Obama and 1. 53 % of voters either voted for a Third Party candidate or wrote in a candidate.

In the 2008 presidential election, 51. 47 % of Jefferson County voters voted for Republican John McCain, while 43. 05 % voted for Democrat Barack Obama and 5. 46 % of voters either voted for a Third Party candidate or wrote in a candidate.

In the 2008 presidential election 70. 45 % of Harney County voters voted for Republican John McCain, while 25. 79 % voted for Democrat Barack Obama and 3. 73 % of voters either voted for a Third Party candidate or wrote in a candidate.

In the 2008 presidential election, 70. 97 % of Grant County voters voted for Republican John McCain, while 26. 05 % voted for Democrat Barack Obama and 3. 94 % of voters either voted for a Third Party candidate or wrote in a candidate.

In the 2008 presidential election, 58. 36 % of Gilliam County voters voted for Republican John McCain, while 38. 74 % voted for Democrat Barack Obama and 2. 88 % of voters either voted for a Third Party candidate or wrote in a candidate.

In the 2008 presidential election 48. 96 % of Deschutes County voters voted for Republican John McCain, while 48. 66 % voted for Democrat Barack Obama and 2. 37 % of voters either voted for a Third Party candidate or wrote in a candidate.

In the 2008 presidential election, 61. 54 % of Crook County voters voted for Republican John McCain, while 35. 09 % voted for Democrat Barack Obama and 3. 37 % of voters either voted for a third-party candidate or wrote in a candidate.

In the 2008 presidential election, 64. 37 % of Baker County voters voted for Republican John McCain, while 31. 95 % voted for Democrat Barack Obama and 3. 66 % of voters either voted for a Third Party candidate or wrote in a candidate.

In the 2008 U. S. Presidential election, Barack Obama carried Gloucester County by a 12. 2 % margin over John McCain, while Obama carried the state by 15. 5 % over McCain.

Obama garnered 61 % of the vote, while John McCain received 36 %.

In the presidential election of 2008 John McCain carried Cassia County with 80. 4 % while Barack Obama received 16. 9 %.

In the 2008 election, Barack Obama carried the county by a 33. 2 % margin over John McCain, while McCain won statewide by a 25. 3 % margin.