McCain’s last hope

Can the Republican candidate turn his campaign around?

John McCain's campaign team is outmatched, outspent, and dysfunctional, said William Kristol in The New York Times. Now that he appears headed for defeat, his best hope is to “junk the whole thing and start over.” He should stop his backfiring attacks, pull his ads, and reinvent himself and running mate Sarah Palin as media-accessible “happy warriors.”

It's “tempting to imagine” what would have happened if McCain had taken the high road, said Fred Hiatt in The Washington Post, instead of tapping a “partisan attack dog” like Palin and casting Barack Obama as “dangerous, dishonest, and un-American.” Maybe he'd still be losing, but at least he'd be happier and truer to himself.

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