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...morning after John McCain's defeat, Mark Salter, McCain's closest aide and biographer, sipped coffee in the courtyard of the Biltmore Resort and Spa while explaining why the national political press had assisted Barack Obama. "On top of everything, we had a thumb on the scale," he said, referring to the media's role in refereeing the campaign. "It wasn't right, but it was what it was." (See pictures of John McCain's campaign farewell...
TIME spoke with John McCain's biographer and closest aide, Mark Salter, the morning after the election. Sitting in the courtyard of Phoenix's Biltmore Resort, Salter reflected on the campaign...
...think it was the weekend after the campaign kind of fell apart, when John Weaver left and Terry [Nelson] left. Emotions were raw. He was obviously not happy with the way things had gone. He went up to New Hampshire to keep it moving, to give a speech. It was the famous flight where he and Jimmy [McCain, his youngest son] and I were on Southwest Airlines, carrying our own bags. Some cable [channel] got it. Jimmy was three weeks out from shipping out overseas. We get through the speech, and you have pretty much the senior class...
...will be the center of the electoral universe," says Charles S. Bullock, a political science professor at University of Georgia. "I see national Democrats and Republicans focusing their efforts here and pouring money into the state for this runoff. I'd expect we'd see Barack Obama here and John McCain...
...call to the President-elect asking for his support. Chambliss, in another press conference later in the day, seemed to believe the answer was "no," but acknowledged the national implications of the race. He said a runoff could force him to face the flood of Democratic money that bedeviled John McCain in the presidential race. "Look, a runoff is just not good news for Saxby Chambliss," says Merle Black, a political science professor at Emory University. "He's been in office for six years and he just didn't have enough strength to get a majority of the votes...