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When my shift ends, I leave the reconstruction of the party for another day, and join the wisdom of wonks whizzing through the streets. Amid the chaos, I continually bump into friends from past campaigns, proving that D.C. really is a small town. We pencil each other in – everyone has a schedule – and catch up at dinner, probably rescheduled several times. Fellow interns tell me where they are now; former staffers lament what could have been. Some call this “networking,” but I object: I actually like these people...
...summit in the Japanese resort town of Toyako, President George W. Bush proudly presented a pledge by the group's eight member nations to cut global greenhouse-gas emissions at least 50% by 2050. For a President who came into office publicly doubting climate change and has repeatedly refused to set specific limits on carbon emissions, the G-8 statement was a personal step forward...
Just across the mountain range, the tiny town of Belmont prides itself on being beyond government control. It was a mining boomtown in its heyday, filled with Cornish and Chinese and Germans and Italians. The main street of the town, now home to just seven households, winds up a steep grade past a row of crumbling stone buildings. One of the buildings had been the local whorehouse. In the basement of another building, local legend goes, two men--union organizers--were hauled out from a mine they were hiding in and lynched. All that history is falling in on itself...
John McCain has retooled his campaign - yet again - and put Steve Schmidt, a veteran of Karl Rove's old shop, in charge of the day-to-day operation. He's back out again doing what he says he loves best, mixing it up with voters in town hall settings. Where he once professed not to know much about the economy, it's now what he talks about constantly. But in spite of all the changes, there is still one key hurdle that McCain has yet to overcome, something a supporter in Portsmouth, Ohio, summed up pretty neatly...
...that first front, McCain has faced some questioning this week for referring to the economy as simply "slowing." But he fared better when listening to voters' personal plights at the town hall gathering. Mary Houghtaling, who runs a hospice in Wilmington, Ohio, choked up as she told McCain of DHL's plans to close its domestic air hub in her town, a move that could throw 8,600 people out of work. "This is a terrible blow," McCain told her. "I don't know if I can stop it. That's some straight talk. Some more straight talk? I doubt...