It's hard to fathom, said James Rainey in the Los Angeles Times, but the "longest and costliest presidential campaign in American history" is about to come to a close. "Trivia dominated too many news cycles, to be sure," but voters can't wait to choose between the old Navy aviator asking to serve his country "just one more time," and the young senator promising to "launch the country on a new journey."
The conventional wisdom "seems to be congealing" around the idea that this was the greatest campaign ever, said Fred Barnes in The Weekly Standard online. But the bottom line is that the American people were leaning toward John McCain until the financial crisis changed everything. If this two-year fight is decided by a single event it should be remembered as "one of the worst" campaigns in history.
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