ft.com - 10/24/2008
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The more trouble John McCain’s campaign encounters, the more it highlights the cultural divide between the “real America” the Republican candidate says he represents and the Washington “cocktail party circuit” that largely disdains it. That circuit is swelling with disaffected Republicans. Some ...
politicalwire.com - 10/28/2008
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politicalwire.com —
The divisions in the McCain-Palin campaign continue to
widen with one senior McCain aide telling Mike Allen...
that Gov. Sarah Palin is "a whack job." Meanwhile, George Stephanopoulos said this about the "demoralized" McCain campaign on ABC News this ...
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McCain-Palin Rift Grows
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Financial Times: McCain Alienating Cocktail-swilling Republican Elite
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
Financial Times reporter Edward Luce has found another sign of trouble for the McCain campaign: he's turning up the noses of the "cocktail party circuit" inside Washington, D.C., which is "swelling with disaffected Republicans."
I kid you not.
From Luce's page 4 October 24 article, "McCain's troubles highlight party rift":
The more trouble John McCain's campaign encounters, the more it highlights the cultural divide between the "real America" the Republican candidate says ...
McCain-Lieberman Still Would Have Aggravated Republican Realists
The Washington Note —
... Edward Luce of the Financial Times gets at this in a piece on McCain's temperament and the divide he's aggravated inside Republican circles. Even my former boss at the Nixon Center, Dimitri Simes, joins the chorus: ...
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First thoughts: Not over 'til it's over —
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From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Domenico Montanaro, and Carrie Dann*** Not over ‘til it’s over: Down in the polls with just 11 days left, the McCain campaign has used two of the biggest CW table-setters out there -- the New York Times’ Adam Nagourney ...
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Bush and Cheney cast ballots for McCain —
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WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Bush has cast his ballot in the 2008 election, spokeswoman Dana Perino said Friday.
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