The Man With the Brand Must Explain Himself

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This election was supposed to be a referendum on Barack Obama. It has turned into a referendum on John McCain.

Obama started this election cycle as the unknown, if largely unblemished, candidate. McCain, meanwhile, began the process as one of the nation’s best-known political commodities. Or so he thought.

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