John Sidney McCain III was an American politician and United States Navy officer who served as a U.S. senator from Arizona from 1987 until his death in 2018. He previously served two terms in the U.S. House of Representatives and was the Republican Party's nominee in the 2008 U.S. presidential election.
Howard Henry Baker Jr. was an American politician,diplomat and photographer who served as a United States Senator from Tennessee from 1967 to 1985. During his tenure,he rose to the rank of Senate Minority Leader and then Senate Majority Leader. A member of the Republican Party,Baker was the first Republican to be elected to the U.S. Senate in Tennessee since the Reconstruction era.
O'Melveny &Myers LLP is an American multinational law firm founded in Los Angeles,California in 1885. The firm employs approximately 740 lawyers and has offices in California,Washington,D.C.,New York City,Beijing,Brussels,Hong Kong,London,Seoul,Shanghai,Singapore,and Tokyo.
In politics,opposition research is the practice of collecting information on a political opponent or other adversary that can be used to discredit or otherwise weaken them. The information can include biographical,legal,criminal,medical,educational,or financial history or activities,as well as prior media coverage,or the voting record of a politician. Opposition research can also entail using trackers to follow an individual and record their activities or political speeches.
Robert Walter Kasten Jr. is an American Republican politician from the state of Wisconsin who served as a U.S. Representative from 1975 to 1979 and as a United States Senator from 1981 to 1993.
Jon Meade Huntsman Jr. is an American businessman,diplomat,and politician who served as the 16th governor of Utah from 2005 to 2009. A member of the Republican Party,he served as the ambassador of the United States to Russia from 2017 to 2019,ambassador to China from 2009 to 2011,and ambassador to Singapore from 1992 to 1993.
Charles Anthony Fried was an American jurist and lawyer. He served as Solicitor General of the United States under President Ronald Reagan from 1985 to 1989. He was a professor at Harvard Law School and a visiting professor at Columbia Law School. He also served on the board of the nonpartisan group,the Campaign Legal Center.
From the time of the Great Depression through the 1990s,the politics of West Virginia were largely dominated by the Democratic Party. In the 2000 presidential election,George W. Bush claimed a surprise victory over Al Gore,with 52% of the vote;he won West Virginia again in 2004,with 56% of the vote. West Virginia is now a heavily Republican state,with John McCain winning the state in 2008,Mitt Romney in 2012 and Donald Trump in 2016,and 2024.
The 2008 presidential campaign of John McCain,the longtime senior U.S. Senator from Arizona,was launched with an informal announcement on February 28,2007,during a live taping of the Late Show with David Letterman,and formally launched at an event on April 25,2007. His second candidacy for the Presidency of the United States,he had previously run for his party's nomination in the 2000 primaries and was considered as a potential running mate for his party's nominee,then-Governor George W. Bush of Texas. After winning a majority of delegates in the Republican primaries of 2008,on August 29,leading up to the convention,McCain selected Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska as his running mate for Vice President. Five days later,at the 2008 Republican National Convention,McCain was formally selected as the Republican Party presidential nominee in the 2008 presidential election.
Theodore Harold Frank is an American lawyer,activist,and legal writer based in Washington,D.C. He is the counsel of record and petitioner in Frank v. Gaos,the first Supreme Court case to deal with the issue of cy pres in class action settlements;he is one of the few Supreme Court attorneys ever to argue his own case. He wrote the vetting report of vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin for the John McCain campaign in the 2008 presidential election. He founded the Center for Class Action Fairness (CCAF) in 2009;it temporarily merged with the Competitive Enterprise Institute in 2015,but as of 2019 CCAF is now part of the new Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute,a free-market nonprofit public-interest law firm founded by Frank and his CCAF colleague Melissa Holyoak.
This article lists potential candidates for the Democratic nomination for Vice President of the United States in the 2008 presidential election. After Illinois Junior Senator Barack Obama became the Democratic Party's presumptive presidential nominee on June 3,2008,Obama formed a small committee,made up of James A. Johnson,Eric Holder and Caroline Kennedy,to help him select a running mate. Veteran Democratic lawyer and advisor James "Jim" Hamilton,of the firm Morgan,Lewis &Bockius,later replaced Johnson in vetting candidates.
Senator John McCain,the Republican Party nominee,was endorsed or supported by some members of the Democratic Party and by some political figures holding liberal views in the 2008 United States presidential election. McCain Democrat and McCainocrat are terms applied to Democrats who supported McCain.
Stephen Edward Schmidt is an American political and corporate strategist. He is best known for working on Republican political campaigns,including those of President George W. Bush,California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger,and Arizona Senator John McCain during his 2008 presidential campaign.
Edward Casey O'Callaghan is an American attorney and former U.S. Department of Justice official.
Speculation abounded over potential nominations to the Supreme Court of the United States by Ronald Reagan even before his presidency officially began,due to the advanced ages of several justices,and Reagan's own highlighting of Supreme Court nominations as a campaign issue. Reagan had promised "to appoint only those opposed to abortion and the 'judicial activism' of the Warren and Burger Courts". Conversely,some opposed to Reagan argued that he could "appoint as many as five Justices" and would "use the opportunity to stack the Court against women,minorities and social justice".
Game Change is a 2012 American political drama television film based on events of the 2008 United States presidential election campaign of John McCain,directed by Jay Roach and written by Danny Strong,based on the 2010 book of the same title documenting the campaign by political journalists Mark Halperin and John Heilemann. The film stars Julianne Moore,Woody Harrelson,and Ed Harris,and focuses on the chapters about the selection and performance of Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin (Moore) as running mate to Senator John McCain (Harris) in the presidential campaign.
Women in conservatism in the United States have advocated for social,political,economic,and cultural conservative policies since anti-suffragism. Leading conservative women such as Phyllis Schlafly have expressed that women should embrace their privileged essential nature. This thread of belief can be traced through the anti-suffrage movement,the Red Scare,and the Reagan Era,and is still present in the 21st century,especially in several conservative women's organizations such as Concerned Women for America and the Independent Women's Forum.
Businessman Donald Trump of New York,the 2016 Republican nominee for President of the United States,considered several prominent Republicans and other individuals before selecting Governor Mike Pence of Indiana as his running mate on July 15,2016. Pence formally won the vice presidential nomination at the 2016 Republican National Convention on July 19. The Trump–Pence ticket would go on to defeat the Clinton–Kaine ticket in the 2016 presidential election but ultimately lost to the Biden–Harris ticket in 2020.
William Francis Hagerty IV is an American politician,businessman,and diplomat serving as the junior United States senator from Tennessee since 2021. A member of the Republican Party,he served as the 30th United States ambassador to Japan from 2017 to 2019 under President Donald Trump.
