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When the voters finally take over, the candidates are left to go to the movies or cocoon themselves in hotel rooms with nothing better to do. In the past, John McCain has favored the movie route. Back in 2004, he went and saw Ray on Election Day. Now, his aides say, they may bring a DVD player to his hotel room to pass the time Tuesday afternoon...
After he cast his ballot in the morning, McCain took a quick flight from Phoenix to Grand Junction, Colo., for a final rally, along with a visit to volunteers in New Mexico. (The pilot of Straight Talk Air was forced to abort the initial landing in Albuquerque because of winds and heavy turbulence. We circled around and landed. Press cheered and sang "Highway to the Danger Zone," a regular campaign rally favorite...
These events were designed to give the television networks fresh pictures to remind people to vote. But it's all a kabuki dance. The last days of a modern presidential campaign have a rote feel - quick flights followed by airport-hangar rallies in which McCain makes jokes, strains his vocal cords and repeats the same speech he has been making for about two weeks. If the microphones are not working well, which is often the case, he jokes that they are "brought to you by the Democratic National Committee." When he gets to the part where he calls Barack Obama...
...staff continues to maintain that they are feeling good, pointing to those polls that show the race tightening in key 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...
...pictures of John McCain's final push on the campaign trail...