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Could McCain fall off the radar?

• Justin Webb
• 6 Mar 08, 07:22 PM GMT

Is Ben Cameron actually another person writing under a pseudonym... ?

I ask having just seen this from Karl Rove: "A long Democratic battle doesn't automatically help the Republicans. In fact, it hurts the Republicans in certain ways. Mr McCain becomes less interesting to the media. Stories about him move off page one and grow smaller. TV coverage becomes spotty and short. There are not yet big and deep and unbridgeable differences between the two Democrats and there is plenty of time to heal most wounds (except, perhaps among the young if Mrs Clinton were to win). Continuing to build a profile and lay the predicate for the short fall campaign against either Democrat becomes the challenge for Mr McCain while the Democrats battle it out."

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Barack Obama - cooler than a wet ham sandwich

• Justin Webb
• 6 Mar 08, 05:41 PM GMT

I agree with Art! I heard a British journalist in DC the other day moaning on about voter turnout and trying to make the point that the British process was still better because more people take part - nonsense! Stand in the lines that'll form in Wyoming soon and Mississippi next week if you want to see real participation in democracy.

Rob's point about Margaret Thatcher reminds me that the American idea that a woman might make a weak leader is downright weird. The world's toughest political leaders have often been women: from Queen Boadicea to Indira Gandhi.

Ben Cameron makes an observation which goes against conventional wisdom and I am certainly going to try it out on a senior Democrat when I next see one - perhaps the duel is a fiendishly clever Democratic Party plot to keep McCain out of the headlines.

I see my Obama as post-Pennsylvania running-mate idea has not exactly received universal approbation. I am not advocating it guys, just reporting its likelihood!!

Meanwhile why, oh why, do (all of them as cool as an English ham sandwich on a wet day in Bognor Regis) continue to think that they can be like Barack? Forgetaboutit.

Start by buying trousers that reach as far as your shoes but don't expect to reach Obama cool any time soon...

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