Published 12/12/2008
by Mark Murray
at First Read
Last night at Harvard, Rick Davis, McCain pollster Bill McInturff, David Plouffe and David Axelrod, got together for an election post-mortem. McInturff, the Republican half of the NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, said the campaign was glad the election was over; Davis regretted that McCain's maverick image "had been damaged this year's brutal Republican primary," the Boston Globe writes. He also said McCain would "want a re-do on" saying the economy was fundamentally strong. They also said McCain's...( read more )
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