Article: Strategists Hope Schmidt Puts McCain's Campaign on the Right Track; Steve Schmidt takes over day-to-day operations from campaign manager Rick Davis.

Byline: Liz Halloran

It was a long time coming: Today's shake-up of GOP nominee John McCain's leadership team follows weeks of harsh--and increasingly public--criticism by influential members of his own party who say they have been alarmed at what they have seen as the campaign's lack of focus and poor planning.

In elevating senior adviser Steve Schmidt to take control of the campaign's day-to-day operations from campaign manager Rick Davis, McCain turned to an aggressive strategist who helped engineer Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's successful re-election in California and who worked for the Bush-Cheney campaign in 2004. Davis will continue to serve as a top strategist ...

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