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...Asked what appeal he'd make to an independent voter trying to decide between the two of them, McCain reacts with shocked straightforwardness, "Why, national security, of course." Obama strategist David Axelrod is equally firm about what, to him, seems like an easy choice: "Whatever appeal Senator McCain might have, I think the war is a troubling thing for a lot of people...
...David Axelrod, Obama's top campaign strategist, summed up the night this way: "Barack Obama brought so many new supporters to this cause, independents, some Republicans, young people...this is what this party has to do in November...
...Obama, as Lincoln wrote of his own presidential aspirations in 1860, "the taste is in my mouth." Voters began to see that he really wanted the job he was campaigning for. "There's a certain joy to it that I see in him now," says his strategist David Axelrod. "I just sensed from that point on that sort of incredible focus, energy, acuity, joy. He's into...
...over to a commission is the kind of duck-and-cover drill that politicians have usually been able to get away with on Social Security. But Obama and Edwards aren't going along this time. "We're not really picking a fight about Social Security," says Obama strategist David Axelrod. "We're picking a fight about candor. [Obama] has been forthright about this, and Senator Clinton hasn...
...Staffers say that the Senator struggled with the perception that he was coasting. "It's a much more visceral message now," says senior adviser David Axelrod. "It's much more from his gut ... the stakes are high, and he wanted to make sure his full motivations were clear." And over the past few weeks, his attitude evolved from trying to figure out what might be going wrong to realizing there was, Axelrod says, "a reason to do this now." As he told CBS news in the days before the dinner, "I think there was a period of time when things...