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...question just how successful the ads have been. 2008 was supposed to be the year that climate change finally became a major issue in a Presidential election, yet global warming has been anything but hot on the campaign trail. Both candidates can claim at least a little greenness - though John McCain's environmental record has been tarnished in recent months - but the reality is that candidates aren't talking about climate change because it's not high on the list of voter priorities. Sky-high gas prices are, however, and many voters have responded more positively to McCain's call...
...John McCain and the RNC have taken decisive action to ensure that the needs of those affected by what looks to be a catastrophic hurricane are placed above partisan politics," Weatherl said...
...lost because of the unexpected, not the predictable. In the heat of a final push towards Election Day, what usually makes the difference is how each candidate responds to and takes advantage of unforeseen events. Two weeks ago, for instance, the Obama campaign had no way of predicting that John McCain could not count, at a moment's notice, the number of houses he and his wife own. But they reacted instantly. Within hours, Obama's minions pounced, broadcasting the gaffe for days in what amounted to the Democrat's single biggest negative attack of the campaign...
...That's certainly true of the CIA analyst played by John Malkovich. Osborne Cox: his very name is steeped in two denominations of old money. After decades at the Agency, he has perfected the look and the attitude of a career spook. He wears a smart dark suit and that inevitable flourish of the house eccentric, a bow tie. Osborne's Olympian contempt for his superiors, his overcareful pronunciation of French words ("mem-wah"), the modest shock value of a Princeton man spicing every sentence with the f-word - all these mark him as hailing from that generation and class...
...Across the row from the State Fair livestock pavilion - with its champion pigs, giant cabbage and 900-lb. pumpkins - Eddie Grasser mans an NRA booth. Palin is a lifetime NRA member - a demographic that has not been particularly high on John McCain - and Grasser couldn't be more excited about the governor he calls Sarah. Like Grasser, everyone here seems to be on a first name basis with their politicians. "It's just one of those things about Alaska politics," says Grasser. So Governor Palin is Sarah, the irascible (and currently indicted) Senator Stevens is Uncle Ted, and even Representative...