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...purple "I'm a health care voter" shirt stands up to ask a question at a John McCain town hall in Exeter, N.H. "I am embarrassed by our current administration," he begins, before he is interrupted by applause, "Why can't this country get Osama bin Laden? I need closure on that." He was also concerned about Iraq: "We've turned that country into hell." Though he was addressing McCain, he told me later that he had wanted to present these thoughts to both of the candidates he was considering supporting in the primary on Tuesday - McCain and Democrat Barack...
...McCain tried to lock one up one of those undecided McBamas at the town hall in Exeter. In responding to the voter asking about Iraq, McCain didn't stray from his usual answers on the topics of bin Laden and Iraq. He will "follow Osama bin Laden to the gates of hell." As for Iraq being hell-on-earth...America will stay there, he said, for as long as it takes, even if - as he put it later - "that's one hundred years, one thousand years, ten thousand years or until the earth collapses under global climate change...
...Asked what appeal he'd make to an independent voter trying to decide between the two of them, McCain reacts with shocked straightforwardness, "Why, national security, of course." Obama strategist David Axelrod is equally firm about what, to him, seems like an easy choice: "Whatever appeal Senator McCain might have, I think the war is a troubling thing for a lot of people...
...Conventional wisdom" - reflected in an article by this reporter earlier this week - "has a name for candidates who rely on the youth vote: loser," said Michael McDonald, an expert on voter turnout at George Mason University. "Clearly, this was different...
...presidential primary season moves on from Iowa, where intensely partisan Democratic and Republican electors dominate the process, the candidates are retooling their messages to appeal to a different kind of voter. In the next round of contests, voters unaffiliated with either party have the potential to determine the outcome, thanks to election rules in states like New Hampshire, Michigan and South Carolina, where independents can vote in either the Democratic or Republican primaries. Suddenly it seems that independents could well be the kingmakers, the voters whose preferences decide both the Republican and Democratic nominees for President...