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McCain looks for strong stretch run
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Frank Cotolo
25 Oct 2008 |
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"This is going to be a tough fight, my friends," McCain said to a group of
people, none of which he truly knew well enough to call his friends, "and we're
going to be up late on election night but we're going to win."
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"What else could he say," responded an Obama aide. "You can't tell people you
are going to lose. Just like we say we are going to win, even though we know
we are going to win, we can't tell people we are going to win or lose. Even
though there is not a strong political wind going against us in any direction,
we have to be humble about this coming victory."
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McCain's catching-up tactics were summed up by former Denver Broncos
quarterback John Elway, who said, "Senator, it's the fourth quarter and that
means this is the last chance you have to be president of the United States."
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Meanwhile, Barack Obama is in Hawaii visiting his seriously ill grandmother.
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A McCain aide said, "We wish John had an ailing grandmother. That could make
us look more confident. But wouldn't you know, his mother is as old as dirt
and she is in great health and his grandmother died sometime in the late
seventeen hundreds, I think?"
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