Q&A With Bob Barr, Libertarian for President | Newsweek Politics: Campaign 2008

FACTCHECK.ORG
Miscounting Obama's Tax Votes
Lori Robertson 7/3/2008 12:00:00 AM
After looking at every one of the 94 votes that the RNC includes in its tally, we find:
Mapping a Win
Eleanor Clift 6/27/2008 12:00:00 AM
Legend has it that Democratic strategist James Carville didn't change his underwear the few days before the '92 election for fear of jinxing the returns. Bob Shrum, a key adviser to both Al Gore and John Kerry, treasures a brightly colored scarf he only wears on election nights. He calls it his lucky scarf even though it failed him in 2000 and 2004. I thought of these two characters as I watched David Plouffe, Barack Obama's no-nonsense campaign manager, give a Power Point presentation to a roomful of reporters at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington on Wednesday afternoon. Maybe Plouffe has all sorts of quirks and superstitions he has yet to reveal, but for now he epitomizes the "no-drama Obama" candidate and his campaign.
CAMPAIGN 2008
Playing the Spoiler Role?
Sarah Elkins 5/21/2008 12:00:00 AM
At Tuesday night's Libertarian debate, the party's most celebrated presidential candidate wasn't even there. In fact, he isn't even a Libertarian. And yet his name was invoked almost a dozen times in the course of the hourlong debate leading up to this weekend's Libertarian convention.
CAMPAIGN 2008
Huckabee: The Lessons of My Campaign
Matthew Philips 5/16/2008 12:00:00 AM
For a guy who stopped running for president more than two months ago, Mike Huckabee sure has been getting a lot of attention. Ever since he bowed out of the race after the Texas primary on March 4, and then endorsed John McCain five days later on "Larry King Live," the former Arkansas governor has kept a high profile, traveling across the country giving speeches to conservative and Christian organizations and stumping for virtually every Republican running for office, including McCain. His political action committee, HuckPAC, which he launched last month, has raised money for eight Republicans in a variety of races— gubernatorial, congressional and even state-legislature races. Three weeks ago he joined McCain on his campaign bus when it rolled through Little Rock, Ark., during the presumptive GOP nominee's "poverty tour." The two yucked it up like old pals, reminding people that, unlike McCain and Mitt Romney, they really do seem to like each other.
A Libertarian Surge?
George F. Will
Compact and Feisty Bob Barr, 59, probably will seek and get the presidential nomination of the Libertarian Party, which convenes in Denver on Memorial Day weekend. Given the recent fund-raising prowess of a kindred spirit—Ron Paul's campaign for the Republican nomination siphoned up $35 million, mostly off the Internet—libertarians are feeling their oats. Come November, Barr conceivably could be to John McCain what Ralph Nader was to Al Gore in 2000—ruinous. Nader was a weak third-party candidate but was the most consequential in American history. He won only 2,882,955 popular votes nationwide (2.7 percent), but 97,488 of them were in Florida, where, because of Nader, George W. Bush won by 537 votes.
SURROGATES
She Had Such Nice Things to Say
Jonathan Darman
For the past 15 months, Carly Fiorina has given her life to John McCain. A brand-name businesswoman owing to her tumultuous tenure as CEO of Hewlett-Packard, Fiorina serves as "victory chairwoman" of the Republican National Committee and is the McCain campaign's most outspoken and energetic female surrogate. But as she strolled around a dining room in the battleground state of Ohio last week, praising "a focused, determined, intelligent, empathetic, powerful leader," she wasn't talking about the GOP nominee. She was talking about Hillary Clinton—a woman, she told the 50 women gathered to see her in a Columbus suburb, who'd been wronged. "Women in positions of authority, particularly bold women who are trying to change things, are … caricatured differently, commented upon differently and held to different standards," she said. "I watched all of this happen to Hillary Clinton."