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Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Good Old McCain Resurfaces; why?
The word has gone out to reporters that the reason Sen. John McCain wants to suspend the presidential campaign to focus on the nation’s financial emergency is that his handler’s have decided that he does best with the public when he is seen as a nonpartisan problem-solver, a guy who reaches across party lines to get things done. Whatever happens this week — whether the scheduled Friday debate with Barack Obama happens, for example — let’s hope that this theory of the handlers continues to prevail.
Until now, McCain seems to have been functioning under the opposite theory: that he has to cozy up to the very right-wing Republicans who think bipartisanship is a bad thing (who love Sarah Palin), while exceeding normal bounds of dishonesty in his ads.
But the polls are turning bad.
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