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After all, McCain prides himself on his appeal to younger voters, so what better way to connect with Generation Y than through Internet pornography, that upstart competitor to the old-school Playboy institution? In fact, Internet porn could be seen as a metaphor for the McCain campaign; rebellious, accessible to the masses and dominated by anti-establishment personalities...
...fellow upstart John McCain is trying to play the hardest role of all: a Washington insider with a conservative record running as a maverick outsider on a centrist platform, against the guy his whole party crowned months ago. Maybe that's why he seems to be having the most fun onstage; no one in the audience has a clue about what he's going to do next. But it's a lot to juggle: his rhetoric as a reformer against his record as a Commerce Committee chairman; his reputation as a straight talker against his need to mollify flag wavers...
Bush and his advisers think McCain's strategy on tax cuts is a mistake big enough to cost the upstart challenger his chance to win New Hampshire. "You can't run to the left on taxes in this state and win the Republican primary," says New Hampshire Senator Judd Gregg, Bush's state chairman. Gregg may be right about his home state but wrong about the rest of the country. In the TIME/CNN poll, Republicans by more than 2 to 1 say they would rather have a smaller tax cut with more money going to Social Security and debt repayment...
...Proponents of the condensed schedule say it favors upstart campaigns, allowing underdog candidates who score surprise hits in the early primaries to ride a wave of attention through early March, and maybe sneak away with a win. But critics argue that the shortened season actually deprives upstart campaigns of the chance to build momentum. In years past, a handful of candidates parlayed surprise showings in the early primaries into a sustained accumulation of press coverage, allowing them to build war chests that rivaled the front-runners'. But now there's little time to accumulate contributions once February rolls around...
...notorious scandals that followed so thoroughly rattled the fledgling medium of commercial television that 44 years would elapse before another summer upstart offering dazzling dollars in prime time would again galvanize the TV audience and spur a rash of imitations. The similarities between what is happening now and what happened during the '50s may not amount, in Yogi Berra's diagnosis, to a case of deja vu all over again, but those interested in looking ahead and guessing how the current quiz-show mania will play can find some suggestive clues by looking back...