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...states. But the race remains a hard hand for McCain to win. The public polls show him behind in a bunch of states that George W. Bush won in 2004. But polls don't decide elections. Voters do. And so McCain must now wait. As a practical matter, his campaign is already over. All that's left is to find out how well the American people think he did. -By Michael Scherer, with the McCain campaign...
...quarantine or no quarantine, news outlets still remember Florida in 2000; if swing-state races appear tight when the last polls close, odds are the media will be cagier about releasing early results - no matter how good the data look...
...only meetings I went to over the weekend, and I knew immediately that I had to be a part of this election now on campus,” she says. “I wanted to be involved no matter what because this is such an important election, but to he here, to have the resources that are available to us, it was just right...
...rhetoric is as soaring as it was at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, but voters shouldn't be fooled - Obama is far from the same man he was four years ago, or even 21 months ago, for that matter. There are the subtle physical changes: the graying hair, the pounds shred from months of grueling 18-hour days. And then there's the legacy of the longest campaign in U.S. history: a stronger debate voice, a flag pin on his lapel and a tendency, picked up from Hillary Clinton, to relay some of the stories he's heard from struggling...
...inevitable nominee and his speeches fell flat. This may feel like a Hollywood finish, but if Obama wins, he will very quickly come down to earth: America will return to the sobering reality of an economic crisis and wars on two fronts. His words will still matter, especially in an Inauguration or State of the Union speech, but his legacy from then on will be shaped much more by what he does sitting alone in the Oval Office, when none of his adoring fans are watching...