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Published 10/17/2008 by Dan Balz and Shailagh Murray at Wash Post Elections
NEW YORK, Oct. 16 -- Republican John McCain may have stayed on the offensive during his final debate with Democrat Barack Obama, but for the last 19 days of the presidential campaign he will be playing nothing but defense.
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