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...Wigglesworth common room last night, a portion of patriotic streamer fell off the wall and hung limply as a group of freshmen watched the election returns on television. Textbooks and computers sat stalely on students’ laps, and a white cake iced with the American flag remained mostly uneaten. Suddenly, Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds entered the room: “It’s too quiet in here. What’s wrong? What happened?” Dean of Freshmen Thomas A. Dingman ’67 followed at her heels; last night, the pair...
...fought as hard as we could, and though we fell short, the failure is mine, not yours,” McCain said...
...only her love of unabashed oil-drilling but also her complete lack of preference for fiscal conservatism, aside from tax breaks. She made known her disgust for the high-falutin’ language of elitist Ivy League types. In his VP pick and his election-cycle shenanigans, McCain fell back on the knee-jerk style of conservatism upon which less worthy Republicans have built their careers—the kind that pooh-poohs intellectualism and favors the worst sort of unenlightened notions...
...Given the twin burdens he bore of a dismally unpopular incumbent Republican President and an already staggering economy that fell off a cliff in October, it is possible that McCain never had a chance. For all his cred as a maverick, McCain built that reputation on issues like tobacco, campaign finance, pork-barrel spending, immigration and torture, all of which were peripheral to the general-election debate. Meanwhile, on problems that worried voters most - the economy, health care, jobs - neither McCain's record in the past nor his proposals for the future were distinguishable from the standard Republican fare promoted...
Before hundreds of Republican activists, the Republican nominee refused to play to partisan passions or score political points. In blunt terms, he praised the historic significance of Barack Obama's victory and embraced the pain of his own defeat. "Though we fell short, the failure is mine, not yours," he told the crowd, earning jeers along with cheers...