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...James Carney: "It's fair to say the Bush people are shocked at the size of McCain's victory. There's a lot of finger-pointing starting already...
...party. And thus Bush and McCain staged a minor p.r. coup, shaking hands on a negative campaigning embargo. "This is a way for George Bush to distinguish himself from the other candidates, by painting himself as a different kind of candidate from Steve Forbes," said TIME Washington correspondent James Carney...
...McCain," add Carney, "it plays into his whole thing of billing himself as a fresh alternative." Perhaps more important for McCain, it may help insulate him from his recent FCC mini-scandal. The Arizona senator, who has staked his campaign on campaign finance reform, has been red in the face since allegations surfaced that he'd tried to sway federal regulators in favor of a cable company that contributed to his campaign. The irony in all this is that the Democratic race - which had been billed as a party-defining ideological war - has been bereft of much drama. While Keyes...
...With reporting by Jay Branegan, Massimo Calabresi, James Carney and Mark Thompson/Washington and Andrew Meier and Yuri Zarakhovich/Moscow
...then Bradley and McCain surged. In part this was simply because reporters were desperately looking around for something, anything, to write about. "The media, whether they realize it or not, do try to build a race," says TIME political correspondent Jay Carney. But they also had a compelling story to tell, that of two self-professed political mavericks who enchanted reporters simply by being positioned as the polar opposites of the front-runners: real, spontaneous and full of convictions, rather than cautious and poll-driven. The press was hooked, and that put the two underdogs squarely back in the race...