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CAMPAIGN SCORECARD [This article contains a table. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] ROUND 1 2 3 4 ISSUE Momentum Party Unity Enthusiasm Money ACTION National and key-state polls show the selection of Sarah Palin and a post--St. Paul bounce gave John McCain a turbocharge (and squelched any positive thrust the Democrats might have had after Denver). Barack Obama seems thrown off by his change in fortune, and Democrats have not been able so far to curb the Republicans' forward motion. Thanks to deft handling of Hurricane Gustav, finessing of the popular-with-the-base/unpopular-with-the-nation President Bush...
Obama leads in two key states but trails McCain in two others--similar to George W. Bush and John Kerry's split...
...scrambling to meet demand for books by or about the contenders. Joe Biden's memoir was just reissued in paperback, and a second Sarah Palin bio is already in the works, with 100,000 copies coming out in October. While Barack Obama's two books are best sellers, John McCain fills more shelf space: since becoming a Senator, he's penned five hefty tomes with speechwriter Mark Salter...
...calls for a tripling of nonmilitary aid to Pakistan over five years and ties security aid to improved results in dealing with terrorists. Such an approach--which the Senators have called a "genuine sea change"--has widespread support. Randy Scheunemann, the top foreign policy adviser of Republican presidential candidate John McCain, says achieving U.S. objectives in Pakistan will require development as well as military aid. In July, in an interview with nbc, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said not enough U.S. assistance to Pakistan has taken the form of "building schools and building infrastructure in the country...
...campaign's crowds, once elderly and male, now surge with moms toting children. Grandmothers tell of getting goose bumps when she speaks. A young girl holds up a sign that reads SARAH PALIN UR MY ROLE MODEL. At rally after rally, John McCain must wait to go onstage, while she is still being mobbed at the rope line. In Lee's Summit, Mo., when he attacks Barack Obama as being "wrong for America," the crowd ignores him and chants her name instead. The line to enter a Lancaster, Pa., event winds half a mile through a parking lot, where thousands...