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McCain feels a gain as the campaigns go into the final days
 
Frank Cotolo
29 Oct 2008
 
In North Carolina, Republican presidential nominee John McCain, after being told he was not in South Carolina, said he sensed gaining on his rival, Barack Obama, in the electoral picture where Obama holds a steady lead in polls.
 
A McCain aide said, "This feeling of a change in the poll numbers was prompted, strangely enough, by a change in the poll numbers. It seems that McCain gained a point since yesterday."
 
Hoping to hurt Obama, McCain and his VP camdidate, Sarah Palin, intensified their criticism of Obama's tax plan. Also, they said that last May Obama said he did not believe Iran posed a serious threat around the same time that McCain was singing: "Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran." Palin pointed out that not only was Obama's view different but Obama did not have a way to sing his opinion as McCain did.
 
McCain told "Fox News Channel's" Sean Hannity that he felt growing enthusiasm that reminds him of a comeback that either he or some other candidate once experienced. "I am convinced that six or seven or eight or however many days are left from now until the election, that we will win in North Carolina," McCain said at a rally in North Carolina.
 
McCain is in a neck-and-neck battle with Obama in the usually Republican-heavy state of North Carolina.
 
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."
 
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.
 
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."
 
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.
 
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.
 
"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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