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Is Mudslinging the Only Way John McCain Can Win? -- New York Magazine

Taegan Goddard's Political Wire found this 8/1/2008 on nymag.com

n the morning in March when Barack Obama was preparing to give his speech on race in Philadelphia to try to contain the fallout from the Jeremiah Wright imbroglio, I was having breakfast in Washington with a member of John McCain s inner circle. The topic at hand was whether McCain was licking his chops at the prospect of facing Obama in the fall—whether he relished the idea of running ...