For a Week at a Time, and Never See Eye to Eye
Hey, they're head to head! The real candidates won't be spending any time in London in the next eight days, so their Madame Tussauds' head molds will just have to do.
So where is John McCain going to be now that the end is in sight? According to the LA Times, the Republican from Arizona will be focusing on swing states that Bush won in 2000 and 2004, like Ohio, where he rallies his supporters in Dayton today, and Virginia, where vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin makes stops in Loudon County, Fredricksburg and Roanoke.
Just like in the big-budget Disney movie we are trying not to mention any more, it's "Now or Never" for McCain: He was on the trail a full 18 hours Sunday, making several stops in another battleground state, Pennsylvania, to praise the patriotism of small-town America and declare his wife's fitness to be First Lady. On "Meet The Press," he told Tom Brokaw, who was bearing poll numbers showing him behind in Iowa of all states, "We're doing fine. We have closed in the last week."
After stepping off the trail for two days, Barack Obama is still pursuing a modified version of his 50-state strategy while showing extra love to the swing states. He spoke to a crowd estimated at more than 100,000 people in Denver Sunday, in a state Bush easily took in the last two elections. He'll be hitting Ohio and Virginia as well in the next few days, and also making stops in Pennsylvania and Florida.
Joe Biden, whose remark about Obama's preparedness for a terrorist attack has become the subject of an anti-Barack attack ad, visits some small towns in the early-voting state of North Carolina today.
Related Stories:
· Possible Presidents Travel: Taking The Plunge [Jaunted]
· Election's Endgame Is No Sure Thing [LAT]
· For McCain, 18-hour Days Produce Both Hits, Errors [AP, via Yahoo!]
· Against All Odds, McCain Still Believes in a Final Week Comeback [TIME]
· Candidates Take a Swing Through the West [NPR]
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