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McCain: Obama lead growing because 'life isn’t fair'
Posted: 11:00 AM ETFrom CNN Associate Political Editor Rebecca Sinderbrand
(CNN) – John McCain said Thursday that Barack Obama’s poll numbers are rising as the economy seems to sink "because life isn’t fair.”
“He certainly did nothing for the first few days,” McCain told Fox News Thursday. "I suspended my campaign, took our ads down, came back to Washington, met with the House folks and got on the phone, and also had face-to-face meetings.”
New CNN/Time/Opinion Research Corporation polls of several key battleground states released Wednesday found Obama has made gains across the board – either taking statistically significant leads, or erasing McCain advantages – over the past few weeks. Since the financial crisis began in mid-September, Obama has taken and held a lead over McCain in the national CNN poll of polls.
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But the Republican nominee said the economic anxiety-fueled poll swing was likely a blip. “Well first of all, you know very well that these are temporary things," he said on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. "The focus was on the fiscal crisis we were facing. I understand that. I understand there are going to be ups and downs in campaigns. I'm happy where I am...
“I'm the underdog. I love being the underdog.... We're going to be up late on election night,” he said.
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Running mate Sarah Palin is also facing an unfair disadvantage as she heads into the debate tonight, McCain told Fox. “Frankly, I wish they had picked a moderator that isn’t writing a book favorable to Barack Obama. Let’s face it,” he said. “But I have to have to have confidence that Gwen Ifill will handle this as the professional journalist that she is... Life isn’t fair, as I mentioned earlier in the program.”
PBS journalist Gwen Ifill, the moderator of Thursday’s vice presidential debate, is writing a book about Barack Obama and a new generation of black leaders that is slated to be released in January 2009.
--------------------------------...The trainwreck continues. I knew McCain would play politics with the whole "suspending his campaign, taking down ads, etc. etc." which are all lies. He suspended nothing! The fact that he is trying to say Obama did absolutley nothing in this crisis is foolhardy at best.
- I saw McCain ads every day through that "suspension." WTFjoeth