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Published 10/16/2008 at The Economist: Full print edition

The Republican contender is losing. Here is what he needs to start saying JOHN McCAIN has survived political death before. In 2000 his career in presidential politics apparently died in the killing fields of South Carolina. In the summer of 2007 he was forced to sack his staff and carry his own bags. Can he play Lazarus one last time? The odds are long. Mr McCain has been trailing Barack Obama in Gallup’s tracking poll by at least seven points for the past two weeks. Mr Obama is locking up one swing state after another and threatening Mr McCain in Republican strongholds such as Virginia and North Carolina. But long is not impossible. ... (link)

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