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McCain Rally: Salter Is Smiling
McCain Rally: Salter Is Smiling
Elizabeth Holmes reports from Blountville, Tenn., on the presidential race. You know it’s a big day on the McCain campaign when Mark Salter is smiling. The senior aide to John McCain , known for his gruff demeanor, was practically giddy this morning on the campaign plane. He was cracking jokes with reporters and describing an optimistic atmosphere surrounding McCain. “We feel like we’ve been saying all week. We’re well within the margin or on top in all these battlegrounds,” ...
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McCain: “We’re going to win this election”
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... An obligatory pep talk for the 16-hour holding pattern we momentarily find ourselves in.“We got a real good shot at catching the guy,” says Mark Salter .

Mark Salter is Smiling
The Corner on National Review Online — ... ] From the Washington Wire: You know it s a big day on the McCain campaign when Mark Salter is smiling. The senior aide to John McCain, known for his gruff demeanor, was practically giddy this morning on the campaign plane. He was cracking jokes with reporters and describing an optimistic atmosphere surrounding McCain. We feel like we ve been saying all week. We re well within the margin or on top in all these battlegrounds, Salter said. We got a real good shot at catching the guy. The staff is short on sleep but pretty jazzed, Salter said. McCain was receiving only ...

"We got a real good shot at catching the guy."
The Corner on National Review Online — [image] [image] NRO BLOG ROW | THE CORNER | ARCHIVES SEARCH E-MAIL PRINT RSS [image] [image] Monday, November 03, 2008 [image] “We got a real good shot at catching the guy.” [ Kathryn Jean Lopez ] Some optimism from Mark Salter 11/03 03:56 PM [image] [image] [image] © National Review Online 2008. All Rights Reserved. Home | Search | NR / Digital | Donate | Media Kit | Contact Us

Why Is Mark Salter Smiling?
The Stump — ... Has he really seen some good internal polls? Or is he just sleep-deprived, slap-happy, and wired like a maniac on "eight cups of coffee and a half a pack of cigarettes." (Nothing wrong with that, by the way....) ...

Maybe He Knows Something the MSM Doesn’t?
The Sundries Shack — Why is Professional Eeyore Mark Salter so happy ? You know it’s a big day on the McCain campaign when Mark Salter is smiling. The senior aide to John McCain, known for his gruff demeanor, was practically giddy this morning on the campaign plane. He was cracking jokes with reporters and describing an optimistic atmosphere surrounding McCain.null “We feel like we’ve been saying all week. We’re well within the margin or on top in all these battlegrounds,” Salter said. “We got a real good shot at catching the guy.” The staff is “short on sleep but pretty jazzed,” Salter said. ...

~QOTD~
Greatscat! — ... ~QOTD~ “Crystal meth. Me, personally, that’s how I’m going to do it.” -McCain adviser Mark Salter when asked how he was going to make it through the grueling last day of the presidential campaign. -Diane [ ...

Eye Sea
The Democratic Daily — ... Meantime, in one of the great acting displays of our time, or something smelling rotten in the state of Denmark, Mark Salter Is Smiling. “The senior aide to John McCain, known for his gruff demeanor, was practically giddy this morning on the campaign plane,” says the Wall Street Journal. Owned by Rupert Murdoch, coincidentally enough. ...

How Mark Salter Does It
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — The secret to his endurance: When asked how he was planning to get through the marathon seven-state day, Salter quipped: "Crystal meth. Me, personally, that's how I'm going to do it." I wonder if it induces hallucinations of crosses in the dirt. ...

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