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...that is not the voice of Town Hall McCain. It is the politician's voice that McCain's advisers created for him in order to have a chance at winning the general election. It is also a voice that McCain has never seemed to truly enjoy...
...Back in 1999, McCain first came to Peterborough as a long shot. As he tells the story now, McCain's campaign tried to fill the town's main hall by promising free ice cream, but so few people came, they ended up holding the event in the basement. Months later, McCain held his last town hall before the primary there. And then he beat George W. Bush, establishing his national identity as a straight-talking reformer. Earlier this year, the state again rescued McCain's fortunes. After his campaign had imploded and gone broke, the Granite State helped McCain defeat...
...these memories came flooding back Sunday night, after McCain stepped inside from the cold, leaving the overflow crowd for his final town hall in the state. "There was a time not so long ago, when I was riding on a well-known airline, Group C, middle seat," McCain told the crowd, describing the Southwest Airlines flights into Manchester Airport that he took...
...town hall that took place on Sunday night featured a McCain who is hard to find these days on the campaign trail - candid, jovial and largely nonpartisan. He parried a question about the country's borders by speaking of the bigotry that Irish immigrants endured at the turn of the 20th century. He gave a full five minutes to a representative of the One Campaign, allowing the activist to talk up new federal funding for AIDS treatment in Africa. When someone asked about problems at the polls, he hinted at the registration problems he has hammered on elsewhere. But then...
...town hall in New Hampshire was McCain's third public event of the day, which ended with a midnight rally in Miami. At every other stop, McCain delivered his closing stump speech and took no questions. His tone at those events was fiercely negative, and his speech was filled with broadsides against Obama. "Senator Obama said the other day that his primary victory vindicated his faith in America," goes one of McCain's new lines, which questions Obama's patriotism. "My friends, my country has never had to prove anything...