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Obama's convention was largely an internal affair. In Minneapolis, John McCain faces a different dilemma. He must reach outside the Republican base and win over ornery independents as a different kind of Republican. Can the GOP put on a different kind of convention?
Minneapolis is McCain's great chance to define himself to these folks. Ticket splitters eschew partisanship. They don't trust any one party to have all the power. They are happy with divided government, so long as that government can deliver results. The convention's hammering on Obama should be...
Some argue that McCain needs to use this convention to shore up the Republican base, and that all this namby-pamby stuff will turn off the rank and file. It is true that after years of maverick behavior, McCain will be in the ironic position of having many of his...
To attract votes beyond the base, McCain's convention must trumpet his peerless credentials as a reformer. He must engage passionately on middle-class economic issues. McCain's comfort zone may be world affairs, but if he cannot hold his own in a kitchen-table debate with Obama on jobs...
It is a myth that McCain cannot give a great speech. True, he doesn't do it very often. But he has given compelling speeches that wrapped powerful arguments in lyrical language about honor, battle and victory. His convention speech has a different purpose: it must welcome and then reassure...