John McCain

(noun)

The senior United States Senator from Arizona and the Republican presidential nominee in the 2008 United States election.

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Examples of John McCain in the following topics:

  • The 2008 Election

    • In the United States presidential election of 2008, Democrat Barack Obama defeated Republican John McCain.
    • Democrat Barack Obama, the then junior Senator from Illinois, defeated Republican John McCain, the senior Senator from Arizona.
    • Obama’s opponent in 2008 was John McCain, a Vietnam veteran and Republican senator from Arizona.
    • McCain faced a number of challenges during the campaign.
    • John McCain supported the war while Barack Obama opposed it.

  • The Disputed Election of 2000

    • John McCain emerged as the main contender.

  • The 2012 Presidential Election

    • His victory was much narrower than his electoral victory in the 2008 Presidential Election against Senator John McCain.
    • Romney had unsuccessfully challenged McCain for the Republican nomination in 2008, but by 2012, he had remade himself politically by moving towards the party’s right wing and its newly created Tea Party faction, which was pulling the traditional conservative base further to the right with its strong opposition to abortion, gun control, and immigration.

  • The Obama Administration

    • Obama was a United States Senator from Illinois at the time of his victory over Arizona Senator John McCain in the 2008 presidential election.

  • Sit-Ins and Freedom Rides

    • ., Joseph McNeil, David Richmond, and Franklin McCain—sat down at the segregated lunch counter to protest Woolworth's policy of excluding African Americans.
    • Kress, and McClellan stores and asked to be served at the lunch counters.
    • On February 27, the Nashville student activists held a fourth sit-in at the Woolworths, McClellan, and Walgreens stores.
    • Eventually, several of the sit-in demonstrators were attacked by hecklers in the McClellan and Woolworths stores.
    • On March 7, 1965, Hosea Williams of the SCLC and John Lewis of SNCC led a march of 600 people to walk from Selma to the state capital in Montgomery.

  • The Affordable Care Act

    • Many of his supporters assumed such reforms would move quickly through Congress, since Democrats had comfortable majorities in both houses, and both Obama and McCain had campaigned on healthcare reform.

  • McClellan's Peninsular Campaign

    • McClellan was initially successful against Confederate General Joseph E.
    • Although the president doubted the utility of the plan, he allowed McClellan to enact Urbanna and named specific officers as corps commanders to report under McClellan directly.
    • On March 11, President Lincoln removed McClellan from his position as general chief of the army, ostensibly so McClellan could focus on the Urbanna Plan, though later in his life McClellan would argue the decision was made to ensure the failure of his campaign.
    • Confederate Brigadier General John B.
    • President Lincoln eventually ordered the Army of the Potomac back to the D.C. area to support Major General John Pope’s forces in the Northern Virginia Campaign and the Second Battle of Bull Run.

  • The Election of 1972

    • In 1972, Nixon beat George McGovern in a landslide reelection victory due to negative views on McGovern's campaign.
    • McGovern won only the state of Massachusetts and the District of Columbia.
    • Eagleton accepted the nomination despite not personally knowing McGovern well and privately disagreeing with many of McGovern's policies.
    • After a week in which six prominent Democrats refused the vice presidential nomination, Sargent Shriver (brother-in-law to John, Robert, and Ted Kennedy, former Ambassador to France, and former Director of the Peace Corps) finally accepted.
    • By this time, McGovern's poll ratings had plunged from 41 to 24 percent.

  • The Transformation of Law

    • John Marshall greatly impacted the legal system in the United States during his 30 year tenure as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
    • The Supreme Court also gained significant power under the leadership of Chief Justice John Marshall , who served from 1801 to 1835.
    • In 1819, the state of Maryland attempted to impose a tax on the Maryland branch of the Second Bank of the United States in McCulloch v.
    • The text of the McCulloch v.
    • John Marshall was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court for over 30 years.

  • The Expansion of the Federal Government

    • During John Marshall's 34-year tenure as chief justice, a number of important Supreme Court decisions defined the federal government's role and powers.
    • Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Marshall played a central role in defining the power of the federal and state governments during the early nineteenth century.
    • In particular, this question arose in the cases McCulloch v.
    • McCulloch v.
    • James William McCulloch was the head of the Baltimore branch of the Second Bank of the United States.