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President McCain...
Like so many trailing candidates before him, McCain recently evoked the memory of Truman's come-from-behind victory in 1948. More than most, though, McCain actually flourishes as an underdog, and it's easy to picture him grinning broadly as he brandishes a newspaper - or screen grab - with the mistaken headline Obama Defeats Mccain. Unfortunately, the howling aftermath of a McCain miracle is just as easy to imagine: liberals blaming an eruption of racism; Democrats complaining of a dirty campaign; conspiracy theorists charging voting-machine fraud; conservatives piling rhetorical firewood under the feet of gop defectors like Colin Powell...
...pictures of McCain's final push...
Americans have shown a taste for divided government in recent decades but maybe not as divided as the early years of a McCain presidency would be. The Republican President would face not only a crowd of resentful Democrats on Capitol Hill but also deep splits within his own party. The closing weeks of McCain's campaign produced a soap opera of Republican dysfunction. McCain gambled his hopes on a bold move to pass a Wall Street rescue plan. House Republicans cut him loose and defeated the bill, sending the stock market crashing and swinging the momentum to Obama. A steady...
...President McCain would find himself alone in hostile territory, beset by foes of every variety. Just the way he likes it. If any politician in recent memory could find success in that environment, it might be McCain. All his greatest hits as a Senator are variations on the same theme: If both sides are mad at me, I must be doing something right. His crusade for campaign-finance reforms was opposed by interest groups ranging from naral on the left to the nra on the right. His "Gang of 14" compromise on judicial nominations derailed true-believer hopes on both...