McCain: "Come on, we're down by just six" (he hopes)

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10.13.2008 11:10 am
McCain: ‘Come on, we’re down by just six’ (he hopes)
By Bill Lambrecht

WASHINGTON — ... John McCain told a crowd in Virginia Beach .... “We’re 6 (percentage) points down. The national media has written us off. Sen. Obama is measuring the drapes and planning with Speaker (Nancy) Pelosi and Sen. (Harry) Reid to raise taxes, increase spending ... My friends, we’ve got them just where we want them” ...

... Virginia hasn’t voted for a Democratic presidential candidate in 44 years. But three weeks before the election, McCain finds himself defending turf that Republicans should own. Later today, he’s in North Carolina, another reliable red state where he and Obama were tied last week ...

In his speech this morning, McCain trumpeted his economic plan, chiefly his proposal for the government to buy up bad home-loan mortages so, as he put it, “if your neighbor defaults, he doesn’t bring down the value of your house with him.”

Will that be it? After indications that McCain would be offering more new prescriptions for the economy, his campaign said not to expect any ...

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