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McCain feels a gain as the campaigns go into the final days
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Frank Cotolo
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McCain is in a neck-and-neck battle with Obama in the usually Republican-heavy
state of North Carolina.
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A McCain aide said, "North Carolina can go either way this election but it
has to go one way or the other because a tie doesn't help either candidate."
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Obama, in Pennsylvania, said he was tired of McCain's accusations that he
wants to redistribute Americans' wealth and said he was also tired of hotel
food so he couldn't wait for the election to be over.
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He also told a crowd at his own rally that McCain's proposals to extend tax
cuts would worsen the country's budget picture and led the crowd in a chant
of: "McCain is like George Bush."
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The candidates are back in Pennsylvania, even as you read this report, and
Bill Clinton will make his first appearance at a campaign rally for Obama
there.
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Palin said she was going to Pennsylvania and would like to meet Clinton, just
for the hell of it, but McCain aides said it would not be a good idea because
Bill Clinton did not meet up with the "maverick standards" that Palin and
McCain have set.
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"We never felt Bill Clinton was a maverick," said a McCain aide. "We think
he is more of a sugar foot and there is nothing that clashes more in public
than a maverick and a sugar foot."
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