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...added, “I would have to say Obama [will win], though perhaps not with the big landslide margin that some others are predicting.” Professors said they believe McCain is unlikely to win for several reasons, especially, according to Frankel, because of a general mistrust in the Republican Party stemming from the Bush administration’s failures in the past eight years. “Senator McCain, closely linked to an unpopular president...has underestimated the angst people in America have with the Republican brand,” Vilsack said. Putting it simply, Hochschild said...
...John McCain is doing, Treloar says, "I don't have any data from the ground to answer that but generally the momentum that the McCain camp has had over the last four days has been extremely good. It's all about momentum and peaking at the right time." And McCain, he says, is peaking. Heavy turnout, he adds, is good for all. "If there are more voters, a lot of those are going to be ours too," he says. "Heavy turnout is good for the election process in general and is not going to sway to one side...
...that is not the voice of Town Hall McCain. It is the politician's voice that McCain's advisers created for him in order to have a chance at winning the general election. It is also a voice that McCain has never seemed to truly enjoy...
...charges that he misused government aircraft for personal trips. The family name was restored in 2002 when his son, John E. Sununu, became New Hampshire's junior senator after knocking off incumbent Senator Bob Smith in the GOP primary and then defeating popular former Governor Jeanne Shaheen in the general election. The younger Sununu, just 38 years old at the time, was widely viewed as an intelligent, sharp politician who would be one of the party's rising stars...
...tried to present himself as, well, a maverick. In the Senate, he has gone out of his way to stake out some independent ground-opposing reauthorization of the Patriot Act, supporting land conservation issues, and being the first Republican Senator to call for the resignation of former attorney general Alberto Gonzales. During the last televised debate in the Senate race, both candidates were asked to identify issues on which they took stands that were politically unpopular. Shaheen paused uncomfortably for a few moments before ultimately arguing that she doesn't pay attention to polls. In response, Sununu eagerly noted that...