Behind the Scenes of the Campaign
Key quote: "The Obama aides who deal with the national reporters on the campaign plane are often overwhelmed, overworked and un-informed about where, when, why or how the candidate is moving about."
Key quote: "The Obama aides who deal with the national reporters on the campaign plane are often overwhelmed, overworked and un-informed about where, when, why or how the candidate is moving about."
Key quote: "More than half of the headquarters staff members have cell phones only, eschewing landlines, and most have laptops they can carry around the wireless-network-equipped office."
-- Presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama seem to be a couple of regular guys, according to Google.
Google Reader has McCain's and Obama's favorite Web sites listed, and each appears to enjoy reading ESPN.com, the Web site for the cable sports giant.
Finally some time to eat.
Key quote: "For the second time in the past four days, Obama played basketball in front of TV cameras -- this time with the big boys."
Key quote: "For perspective, consider America as it was when the battle effectively began — Oct. 22, 2006, when Mr. Obama said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he had changed his mind and was considering a bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. The average price of gas then stood at $2.20 a gallon."
Key quote: "Obama's chief economic adviser, Austan Goolsbee, is a paradigmatic choice architect. Thaler exerts considerable influence on Goolsbee's views. In Noam Scheiber's illuminating look at Obama's advisers in the New Republic, the relationship is described as follows: "
"Obama — whose Secret Service code name is "Renegade" — got his protection at the prompting of Richard Durbin, a fellow Illinois senator and supporter. Durbin, the No. 2 Senate Democrat, saw thousands of people showing up for early campaign rallies when only hundreds had been expected "
Key quote: "Seventy-five percent of nearly 100 votes cast by expatriate Americans just past midnight (1700 GMT Monday) went to Obama and 25 percent went to Clinton, Democrats Abroad officials here said."
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