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...pictures of Barack Obama's victory celebration in Chicago...
...morning after John McCain's defeat, Mark Salter, McCain's closest aide and biographer, sipped coffee in the courtyard of the Biltmore Resort and Spa while explaining why the national political press had assisted Barack Obama. "On top of everything, we had a thumb on the scale," he said, referring to the media's role in refereeing the campaign. "It wasn't right, but it was what it was." (See pictures of John McCain's campaign farewell...
...campaigned in New Hampshire, but that the press and Obama made that impossible. "I think if we had gotten 10 town halls out of Obama," Salter said, "it would have come close to that. McCain's ideal as a general would have been flying around on an airplane with Barack Obama, debating in town halls and having dinner with him afterwards." (See pictures of Barack Obama's campaign behind the scenes...
...think anybody can. I think if we had gotten ten town halls out of Obama, it would have come close to that. McCain's ideal would have been flying around on an airplane with Barack Obama, debating in town halls and having dinner with him afterwards. That would have been his ideal for the general election, but we can't write the rules ourselves. This is the way they are. You guys enforce them. And Obama played by them masterfully, absolutely masterfully. A disciplined, focused campaign...
...that he opposed stem cell research, mischaracterizing his position on Social Security, on Medicare. Nobody got after him. There wasn't that collective gasp from the press that we got every time we took a shot at the guy. [McCain] rejected every appeal to bring [Rev. Jeremiah] Wright up. Barack Obama made a choice to sit it that church for 20 years and listen to this guy. Then why on earth shouldn't that be something for the voters to consider? He would not do it. He would not do it. But we got called racist by Karen Tumulty...