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...next ring, where McCain was loudly assuring conservative Republican loyalists that he was one too, not some kind of closet Democrat, and that it was O.K. to vote for him; they wouldn't burn in hell--in fact, they might at last wind up with a winner in November. "Don't fear this campaign, my fellow Republicans. Join it," he said, again and again...
...from glass plates of cheese and filet mignon, the early-afternoon euphoria seemed to have worn off. "Why haven't they called it, Murph?" the candidate asked at 8:20. The polls had closed nearly half an hour earlier in Michigan, but the networks still hadn't declared a winner. McCain walked across the 150-year-old Navajo rugs to the sofas, where some of his aides were seated. He was fretting. Maybe the exit polls, which had been close all day, were wrong. Maybe the Michigan Governor had been able to pull something off for Bush after all. Then...
...people who really count on a night like this. Then she turns to the reporter in the car with her. "Did I sound O.K. onstage?" she asks. "I was in shock. I was preparing at that moment to put on my loser face." She's got on a winner's face now. Her award (for which she beat out fellow teen star Britney Spears) helps certify Aguilera's credentials as a real singer (as opposed to whatever it is that Spears does) and will provide her with more say in her career. Or so she hopes. "It's my life...
...California to audition for a role as a moderate and John McCain is here to prove he can be a convincing conservative. And if there is any doubt about what's at stake on March 7, McCain flack Dan Schnur can clear it up in one sentence: "The winner of the California primary is going to be the Republican nominee for President...
Bush has a Texas drawl, but he was born here, and his grandfather represented the state in the U.S. Senate. Still, Connecticut got onboard the Straight Talk Express early. Before South Carolina and Michigan voted, polls showed McCain surging to a 13-point lead. The state is winner-take-all, so that's 25 delegates in one swoop...