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...desperate. We got a glimpse of that when we watched a family boost their 10-year-old boy over a 12-ft fence, where a slip could easily mean a broken leg, miles from the nearest doctor. Or when we stood at the rusty steel barrier between the U.S. town of Calexico and the Mexican city of Mexicali in California's Imperial Valley. Through a gap in this wall flows the New River, perhaps the most polluted waterway in North America--a foamy, green mix of industrial waste, farm runoff and untreated human sewage. This river has been found...
...same can be said of John McCain, though his trademark medium is comparatively modest. Instead of the massive event, McCain is most at home in the town-hall meeting, a modern twist on the old New England civic institution, in which neighbors gather to participate in pure democracy. For McCain, the town hall is more than just a chance for him to spread his message of staying the course in Iraq and cutting taxes and spending. The gathering is itself the message he wants to deliver...
...These town-hall meetings are the most important part, in my view, of the process, because it not only gives you a chance to hear from me--and I'll try not to make you hear from me very long--but it gives me an opportunity to hear from you," McCain said recently at a town hall in central New Jersey. "It gives us a glimpse and an idea of your hopes and your dreams and your aspirations and your frustrations today and the challenges that you face and better sets our priorities, and it helps me enormously...
McCain overstates the transactional value of these events. In the hundreds of town halls he has held, few interactions have had any real effect on his policy positions. One exception is global warming, an issue McCain says he was alerted to at town halls during his 2000 campaign. But even if the town halls are less interactive than he claims, it's hard to overstate their importance to his candidacy or how much better they showcase him than his normal campaign speeches. On the night Obama wrapped up the nomination before a crowd of thousands in St. Paul, Minn., McCain...
...obvious comfort in this setting helps explain why McCain has challenged Obama to a series of weekly town halls this summer, a challenge that is fast becoming a key debating point of his candidacy. "If we are really going to change the dynamic in Washington, change the way we do business, let's change the campaign," McCain said on June...