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Pittsburgh: Where the Crunch Could Come, 7:00 a.m. E.T. Both sides must think the Pittsburgh area is going to make a difference. Yesterday, John McCain greeted 1,500 at Pittsburgh International Airport, while Hillary Clinton stopped by a suburban Pittsburgh Obama office to encourage the troops. Bill Clinton, meanwhile, was campaigning with John Murtha up the road in Johnstown, trying to buck up the anti-war but veteran-friendly Democratic Congressman. Murtha's reelection once seemed inevitable, until he labeled his constituents "racists" and "rednecks" who would find it difficult if not impossible to vote for Obama. (See pictures...
These events were designed to give the television networks fresh pictures to remind people to vote. But it's all a kabuki dance. The last days of a modern presidential campaign have a rote feel - quick flights followed by airport-hangar rallies in which McCain makes jokes, strains his vocal cords and repeats the same speech he has been making for about two weeks. If the microphones are not working well, which is often the case, he jokes that they are "brought to you by the Democratic National Committee." When he gets to the part where he calls Barack Obama...
...trail with him. "In the last couple of days, I've been just feeling good," he said a bit wistfully as he introduced his family onstage in Cleveland. "Sometimes it's lonely on the road." But their family reunion was short-lived. At the city's airport, Michelle and the girls headed for a separate charter jet that was bound for home in Chicago, where school beckoned. Obama returned to his campaign plane, and the countdown of the final hours...
...stepped inside from the cold, leaving the overflow crowd for his final town hall in the state. "There was a time not so long ago, when I was riding on a well-known airline, Group C, middle seat," McCain told the crowd, describing the Southwest Airlines flights into Manchester Airport that he took...
...raise money. But just a few weeks before the 2008 election, the yard signs anchored at the end of the long driveways were as likely to read OBAMA as MCCAIN. On Oct. 22, McCain and Palin flew in to fire up several thousand of their supporters at a local airport hangar. "Nothing is inevitable!" the Senator shouted. "We never give up. We never quit...