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McCain looks for strong stretch run
 
Frank Cotolo
25 Oct 2008
 
Republican John McCain, fighting to gain momentum with only 11 days before the U.S. presidential election, said he has a tough battle against Democrat Barack Obama in battleground states but vowed to make a comeback with "a battle".
 
Down in opinion polls, the Arizona senator is statistically losing in several states once won by Republicans -- though those candidates were younger -- but he and his aides say victory in 2008 is still possible.
 
"There are strong political winds blowing against him," said a McCain aide. "You look north, there's a strong political wind, you look south, strong political wind, you look east, there's a strong political wind and you look... wait, which direction did I forget? West, yes, you look west and there's a strong political wind. In fact, you look in between east and south, and what's that, southeast, right?"
 
"You look there and all the other places, really and there's strong political wind."
 
"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."
 
"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."
 
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."
 
Meanwhile, Barack Obama is in Hawaii visiting his seriously ill grandmother.
 
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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