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article.nationalreview.com - 10/27/2008
York: John McCain, Against the Wind
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Behind in the polls? Its amazing hes still in it at all.
thedailybeast.com - 10/25/2008
The McCain Mutiny
— thedailybeast.com — Steve Schmidt and his colleagues took John McCain further than he had any reasonable right to, given the political climate. The most popular parlor game in Washington, D.C., these days is the bludgeoning of the McCain campaign. It started with Bill ... (more) The McCain Mutiny

Comments vote down The Page by Mark Halperin found this 10/25/2008found this
Rift Cracks 'Demoralized' McCain Campaign
abcnews.go.com - 10/28/2008
Rift Cracks 'Demoralized' McCain Campaign
— abcnews.go.com — The McCain campaign is definitely demoralized right now. The blame game has begun. There is no question that there is a rift between Sarah Palin's camp and that of John McCain inside the Republican campaign, sources tell ABC News. Watch George ... (more) Rift Cracks 'Demoralized' McCain Campaign

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article.nationalreview.com - 10/28/2008
Lowry: John McCain -- The Agony of a Gadfly
— article.nationalreview.com — Perhaps no other Republican candidate was so poorly suited to the task of running a presidential race. (more) Lowry: John McCain -- The Agony of a Gadfly

Comments vote down The Corner on National Review Online found this 10/28/2008found this

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The Corner on National Review Online:  McCain Aide: "We're Not Climbing the Same Face of the Mountain"

Political Punch:  Summit the Mountain

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McCain Aide: "We're Not Climbing the Same Face of the Mountain"
The Corner on National Review Online — ... ] We know how much talk there's been in the last few days about backbiting and finger-pointing inside the McCain campaign. I have a new story up today it's the cover of the current issue of NRODT that puts all that in a different perspective. In running this campaign, McCain is going up against obstacles that no presidential candidate has faced in decades. The difficulty of succeeding a two-term incumbent of your own party whose approval rating is 25 percent; historically bad right-track/wrong track numbers; the enthusiasm gap; the economic crisis; the lingering war in ...

Summit the Mountain
Political Punch — ... Summit the Mountain October 27, 2008 8:53 AM"You could think of this as trying to summit a mountain," a senior aide to Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., tells Byron York in the National Review ."Both campaigns have to summit the mountain. In most elections, one campaign has some kind of advantage over the other -- maybe they get a ten-minute or a half-hour head start -- but both sides have to climb the same face of the mountain. In this election, we're not climbing the same face of the mountain. They're climbing the side of the mountain with boardwalks and latte stands and ...

The Enormous Odds Against McCain:
The Volokh Conspiracy — ... the mishandling of the Iraq War, and other real and imagined failures. Fairly or not (I personally think that the Republicans do in fact deserve a good deal of blame), the voters blame the Republicans for these problems. The electoral odds are therefore very heavily stacked against McCain. If he were to win, it would probably be the greatest upset in the history of American presidential elections. Showing better sense than some other pundits, conservative columnist Byron York gives a good summary of the conditions working against McCain : The difficulty of succeeding a ...

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