Follow BeltwayBlips on TwitterRight Turn in July Put McCain on Unfamiliar Path
Published 11/6/2008 by Michael D. Shear at Wash Post Elections
John McCain's campaign was meandering through the summer, one day focusing on the Everglades, the next on Iraq and hardly ever on Barack Obama, when his small group of top advisers took him aside and told him to make a choice.
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