John Sidney McCain III was an American politician and United States Navy officer who served as a United States senator from Arizona from 1987 until his death in 2018. He previously served two terms in the United States House of Representatives and was the Republican nominee for president of the United States in the 2008 election,which he lost to Barack Obama.
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 US 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 "Bob" 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.
Mack Francis Mattingly is an American diplomat and politician who served one term as a United States senator from Georgia,the first Republican to have served in the U.S. Senate from that state since Reconstruction.
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 is an American jurist and lawyer. He served as United States Solicitor General under President Ronald Reagan from 1985 to 1989. He is a professor at Harvard Law School and has been a visiting professor at Columbia Law School. He also serves on the board of the nonpartisan group,the Campaign Legal Center.
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 H. 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.
From January 29 to June 4,1996,voters of the Republican Party chose its nominee for president in the 1996 United States presidential election. Senator Bob Dole of Kansas,the former Senate majority leader,was selected as the nominee through a series of primary elections and caucuses culminating in the 1996 Republican National Convention held from August 12 to 15,1996,in San Diego,California;Dole resigned from the Senate in June 1996 once he became the presumptive nominee to concentrate on his presidential campaign.
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 has worked 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 name 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.
Sarah Palin's candidacy for Vice President of the United States was publicly announced by then-presumptive Republican Party presidential candidate John McCain on August 29,2008. As part of the McCain presidential campaign,Palin,then the incumbent Governor of Alaska,was officially nominated by acclamation at the 2008 Republican National Convention on September 3. The McCain–Palin ticket lost the 2008 presidential election on November 4 to the Barack Obama–Joe Biden ticket.
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.
