The View From Australia

I always like to read the foreign press about American campaigns. This article has no great shocking news, except for one small note near the end. Obama tells his supporters to text to a certain number. Then on election day they get flooded with reminders to get out and vote. Nobody has ever dreamed of that wrinkle before, nor would it work for most candidates. Can you imagine McCain trying to explain it to one of his small audiences of confused older voters? Which I would modestly suggest is a very different demographic from us exceptionally savvy older voters.

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(Note on McCain: "I made a very unfortunate and insensitive remark. It was the wrong thing to do, and I have no excuse for it.'' -- Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, June 11, 1998.
McCain was apologizing for telling a Republican fund-raiser that Chelsea Clinton was "so ugly'' because "she's the child of Janet Reno and Hillary Clinton.'' According to "My Bad," he later sent a note to the Clintons.)

Arthur