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[technoir]

I have to give respect to McCain for at least trying to tone down his supporters. I saw some footage of him on cnn where he was saying nice things about Obama. He was actually booed by his own people at a rally for suggesting people should be respectful of the other side.

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2008/10/10/bash.mccain.friday.cnn

He is not afraid to keep running misleading ads but at least he was willing to tell some of his supporters they were wrong about him. Kudos to him for it.

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[solfox.livejournal.com]

Technically... no, he doesn't /have/ to.

However, the latest round of negative ads and strategies are going poorly for McCain and it's showing in polling numbers that are dropping like rocks. Many of my (more reasonable) conservative friends are upset and questioning whether or not they'll vote at all, much less for him. Either McCain comes out and at least makes the appearance HE is against the sort of politics to try and mollify the growing discontent, or he outright loses the election before it even goes to the polls. All the while his attack dogs continue the theme of "Obama is a muslim" and "Obama pals around with terrorists", and McCain gets to look like he stands against the kind of politics he and his campaign have thusfar endorsed.

So, realistically... yes, he does have to.

It's political strategy. Nothing more. Nothing less.

[msrlapin.livejournal.com]

He's been getting this look of nauseated horror on his face when his supporters start going on about Arabs and terrorists. At the latest "town hall meeting" when someone called Obama an Arab, he literally snatched the mike back from her.

I have this nagging feeling that this campaign has been a series of nightmares for John McCain from the day he won the nomination. There's going to be one hell of a tell-all book written about this campaign when it's all done.

[jenharts.livejournal.com]

At the latest "town hall meeting" when someone called Obama an Arab, he literally snatched the mike back from her.

I saw that as well. Yeah, it would have been nice for him to have told people to cool it six months ago. But as the election gets closer, people seem to be getting more hysterical about it.

I was aghast that they actually booed their own candidate for saying they should be respectful, though.

[technoir.livejournal.com]

Yeah that one hurt me a bit. Often I am disappointed in people in the general sense. I trust individuals, not people.