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...Whether those campaign promises can survive the economic meltdown looks uncertain. In the presidential debate on Sept. 26, Jim Lehrer pushed Obama and McCain to name which programs they would need to drop during the recession. Pressed into answering, Obama said he would not abandon his program to make the U.S. independent of foreign oil but admitted that "there may be individual components that we cannot...
...reference in front of an Iowa crowd last year to the rising price of arugula (as opposed, one imagines, to iceberg lettuce or a nice thick T-bone) was touted by many as proof of his elitist disconnect from middle America. The official comment that John McCain was “aware of the Internet” was neatly transfigured into an image of the Republican as an old fogey hunt-and-pecking at his dusty Underwood...
...John McCain's top field general, Mike DuHaime, has been here before. Just 10 months ago, he was managing the ill-fated Rudy Giuliani campaign for President, fending off daily questions about declining poll numbers and dimming prospects. As the data went south, DuHaime never soured in his public predictions...
...DuHaime, who is considered one of the brightest lights in Republican campaign management, finds himself playing the same role for a different candidate. "We feel good about things," DuHaime told reporters late last week in a conference call after the McCain campaign decided to dismantle its Michigan operation, where it trails Barack Obama in the polls. He said he remained "confident" about a Florida win by McCain, not to mention a Republican victory in once reliable states like Virginia and North Carolina...
...word, he counts himself among a dwindling handful of Republican strategists who feel either "confident" or "good" about the current state of the race. Over the course of two weeks, as the financial crisis and faltering economy have taken center stage, the electoral map has shifted sharply away from McCain and toward Obama. States won by President George W. Bush in 2004 that seemed to be trending Republican after the convention, like Ohio, Florida and Virginia, are now shifting back to Obama in public polls. Other Bush states, like New Mexico and Iowa, appear to have moved safely into...