Word: campaigning
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...protect the program in its current form--not only in the courts but also by picketing the homes of the Southeastern Legal Foundation's supporters and boycotting their companies. As for charges of cronyism, he notes that many of the wealthy black contractors who have contributed to his campaign have also donated to his political foes...
...voters shows that 62% of them favor Bush, vs. 15% for McCain. Because South Carolina is the second important primary test, the Arizonan badly needs a victory there to start a brush fire capable of consuming Bush's considerable advantage in money, endorsements and organization in future states. "My campaign will rise or fall depending on what happens in South Carolina," McCain told TIME...
With the stakes so high, such low numbers are clearly a disappointment to a campaign that feels as if it has the momentum, but the McCain operation argues that it has time to catch up. The hustle that has taken McCain so far in the Granite State hasn't yet been fully effective in South Carolina, where 33% of G.O.P. voters don't know enough about McCain to have either a good or a bad opinion of him, according to the TIME/CNN poll. To fix that, the McCain videotaped biography has been mailed to party activists, and the TV-commercial...
...Campbell. McCain is backed by members of the more obstinate wing of the South Carolina clan, which includes Congressman Lindsey Graham, a folk hero made famous by his quirky orations as a House manager during the President's impeachment trial, and Mark Sanford, an unflappable budget hawk. "The McCain campaign is a revolt," says Richard Quinn, McCain's top man in the state and a bitter rival of the top Bush strategist in the state. "It's a revolt against the special interests, Establishment types and big money, so the more money and endorsements they get reinforces that...
...work just to introduce himself. At an August rally, Cliff Fagan, a Korean War veteran who had been invited by a local politician to hear the Arizona Senator, wasn't clear about him. "Was he a military man?" he asked. Yes, and one who has a long campaign ahead...