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Article: McCain's Hillary problem: he's running her same campaign. And she lost.(THE POWER GRID)(John McCain)(Viewpoint essay)
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- July 21, 2008
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FEEL FREE TO TELL ME I'm nuts for asking the question, but doesn't it seem that, more and more, the McCain campaign is turning into the Clinton campaign?
The comparison smacked me upside the head last week, when the turmoil and melodrama attending the internal functioning--or, rather, dys-functioning--of the Republican nominee's organization burst into public view. Just a few days after John McCain had shaken up his operation, demoting his campaign manager Rick Davis and elevating bullet-headed adjutant Steve Schmidt to a position of putative near-total authority, Bill Kristol confidently predicted in his column in the Times that McCain would soon bring ...