Campaign Caricatures ; 2008 Race Exposes Extreme Stereotypes

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Consultants with cracker-jack ideas run elections and advise presidents. It's a cold, hard fact of the political business. The incipient reality is that lowered expectations lead to an inability to collect critical information. A zealous focus on voting - whether we rock it, get it or altogether dismiss it - is done in total ignorance of the process beyond that.

The ugly truths of campaigns and elections are fully exposed. Despite Sen. John McCain's promises, seemingly gratuitous guarantees and platitudes on campaigning above the fray, the real deal remains the big-dollar retainer demons in his political closet. You can't run a "clean" campaign when you barely have a tattered leash on your advisers, the very "peeps" who make your tactical decisions while you can barely elucidate your strategy. These are the cats who run things, upon whose shoulders the burdens of the campaign fall. These are the rascally hacks of Washington who parse polls and make decisions otherwise too uncomfortable or too questionable for an elected official to make.

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Campaign Caricatures ; 2008 Race Exposes Extreme Stereotypes

Beltway insiders and stogie-smoking, Blackberry-tapping critters sweating the dog days of August in expensive suits know what's up. Consultants make the final decision on the strange ads we've see of late:...

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