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...McCain Plane: 'We Hung In There...
...currency almost managed parity with the American dollar in recent years. Not anymore. The Down Under dollar now gets you only about 66 cents. But that opens the Land of Thunder's many delights to the American budget traveler - once, of course, you mortgage your devalued home for a plane ticket. Round-trip tickets from New York City to Sydney are going for about $1,400. On the upside, when it's winter in the North, it's summer over there. (Except financially - then it's winter everywhere...
...Cleveland on Sunday evening, where an estimated 80,000 people sang along with Bruce Springsteen to "This Land Is Your Land." But with the finish line in sight, earlier in the day you could get a sense of the edginess that also surrounds this campaign, as Obama's plane headed toward this battleground state and his chief strategist, David Axelrod, checked his watch. "These hours could not go by fast enough for me," he said with a sigh...
...family onstage in Cleveland. "Sometimes it's lonely on the road." But their family reunion was short-lived. At the city's airport, Michelle and the girls headed for a separate charter jet that was bound for home in Chicago, where school beckoned. Obama returned to his campaign plane, and the countdown of the final hours...
...Thank you for your friendship," he told the New Hampshire crowd on Sunday night. The people roared their approval, shaking their pom-poms and screaming his name. An hour later, McCain returned to his motorcade and then back to his campaign plane, taking off to deliver his stump speech over and over again for the final 36 hours of the campaign. No one knows when he will next have a reason to return to New Hampshire...