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I can not do this alone. E. W. Everson did not do it alone. Nationwide,
good men and women stood alongside him and fought shoulder to shoulder for the
hearts and minds of the American people. We must do the same thing night and day
as we are doing on the Grizzly Groundswell!

I will also layout our exciting Grizzly Groundswell strategy for
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Behind The Scenes With McCain's Campaign

Katie Couric Takes An Exclusive Look At What Makes John McCain Tick

(CBS) Earlier this year, CBS News took you inside Barack Obama's presidential campaign. Now, CBS News anchor Katie Couric takes an exclusive look at the back-room warriors of the Republican candidate. They are men and women working 24/7 toward 11/4 - Election Day.

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Sen. John McCain has a message that's defined, defended and disseminated daily by an army of about 400 at the McCain headquarters in Arlington, Va.

This campaign is led by not one, but two generals. The first: an operative skilled in tactics and mechanics, honed as campaign manager for Arnold Schwarzenegger, Couric reports.

"I work to run the day to day operations of the campaign and I'm involved in the strategy talking to Sen. McCain, help directing the activities here at the campaign headquarters and out across the nation to help deliver the Senator's message," Senior Advisor Steve Schmidt said.

The campaign's other commanding officer is a longtime ally. He's fought many political battles alongside McCain, including his presidential run in 2000.

"Why do you think you've lasted so long? What is it about you?" Couric asked Rick Davis, McCain's campaign manager.

"I don't know. I just, I keep showing up. You know, nobody tells me to leave. So at seven o'clock in the morning I'm here and trying to do what I can to help the campaign," Davis said.

"Is it a problem to not have a single person who is in charge of the entire operation?" Couric asked.

"You know if you dial it back a couple of weeks, I was doing all of it," Davis said. "I went to McCain and said look, I need help."

"This is an area that we call our war room," Davis pointed.

The war room and its lieutenants are on defense, charged with monitoring the non-stop media coverage ... with plenty of sugar and caffeine at the ready.

"We've got three shifts," said the war room director, Aaron Harrison. "The morning shift starts at 6, they go till mid-afternoon and then we switch over. We've got a night crew that comes in."

The communications team plays offense, making sure the candidate's message is relayed and repeated.

In the modern media age, the points and counterpoints come fast and furious through every conceivable outlet.

"Do you think you need to have your taxes raised? I'm not your candidate. Sen. Obama is," McCain said on a campaign bus.

The campaign tries to reach out to various voting blocs like women, Hispanics and African-Americans. The efforts are coordinated by National Coalitions Director Aaron Manaigo.

"You're an African-American man and supporting John McCain obviously. Do your friends give you a hard time at all?" Couric asked him.

"No. Absolutely," Manaigo said. "Most of my friends like John McCain. In any other election year, they would probably be right here working with us."

A regiment of advance personnel choreographs every detail of every trip and appearance.

"We basically track the senator around the country," said Davis White, the campaign's director of advance. "You see that board over there. The jet is where the senator is."

Couric looked at it, saying, "this little jet?"

"That's where it is," White said. "Today he landed in Michigan. We're going to do a quick OTR stop - a quick-off-record stop - at a little hot dog place."

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See Katie Couric's earlier report on Barack Obama's back-room warriors.
Watch extra footage from behind closed doors.

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Another challenge for the advance team: orchestratrating the events that McCain has made his trademark - Town Hall meetings.

The communications team back at headquarters, and traveling with the candidate, constantly looks for ways to refine and strengthen his message.

In a phone call, senior adviser Nicolle Wallace said to McCain communications director Jill Hazelbaker: "I think we need to take the transcript of what he said at the top and take a look at that and incorporate what he said as examples."

Hazelbaker replied: "I think so. I also liked the idea of as much as we can, getting the real people examples."

And at a campaign event, McCain said: "I met a guy who owns two trucks and he said he could stay in business if he didn't have to pay 25 cents a gallon tax extra on diesel fuel."

But the mother of all appearances will be in Minneapolis in September - when McCain accepts his party's nomination.

And the pressure is on Senior Adviser Mark Salter. He has co-written five books with the senator, and on the day Couric spent at campaign headquarters, he was heading to Maine to work on perhaps the biggest speech of his life.

"Do you have any ideas?" Couric asked.

"Not a one to be honest with you," Salter said.

"Come on, yes you do," Couric said.

"Well, we haven't had a meeting about it yet, and I don't want to be presumptuous," he said. "But, you know, I think any good acceptance speech gives you a real good sense of the guy who is asking to be president of the United States."

"At this point, can you write in his voice pretty well?" Couric asked.

"I can," Salter said. "It's very hard to get his voice out of my head after 20 years."

But they want his voice to be heard - and when it is, they thing there's too much focus on staff shakeups and potential conflicts of interest.

"How many lobbyists work here?" Couric asked.

"We don't make it a litmus test for employment at the McCain campaign," Davis said. "It goes without saying that some people who are involved in the lobbying profession, do it because they're interested in that side of the equation. They’re interested in government. They're interested in Congress. They're interested in public service."

"So lobbyists equal public servants?" Couric asked.

"No. I didn't say that," Davis said. "How do you distinguish someone who, you know, lobbies on behalf of cancer, from one someone who lobbies on behalf of an oil interest? I wouldn't call them the same thing but they're still lobbyists."

Campaigns, warts and all, are watched and dissected more than ever before. And the McCain team is doing its best to adapt to this increasingly complicated battlefield of modern political warfare.

"Campaigns used to be mysteries," Davis said. "Nobody ever saw the inside of a campaign and it used to be a bunch of old guys like me sitting around with cigars, you know dreaming up things to do. And now it's like we're on all the time."

And it’s worth noting the campaign not only plans every move John McCain makes, but also campaign events for his wife, his kids, and - soon - his running mate.

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NH Call to Action: County Training Sessions

Please join the McCain Campaign, Team Sununu,NH Victoryand the New Hampshire Republican Party for upcoming county trainings to discuss how our respective entities are working together, as well as get training on the different programs and tools we will use to execute our strategy over the coming weeks and months. If you are a supporter, activist or just want to help us reach our goals and achieve victory in November, we need you to join our team of volunteers. Attending these meetings will be extremely beneficial to our program as we move on into the last 90 days of the election. To confirm your attendance, please contact NHGOP Political Director, Tom DeRosa at: Tom@NHGOP.org or call 603-225-9341
Merrimack County Tuesday, August 5, 5:30PM Foxfire Property Management 2 Pillsbury Street, Concord, NH (Basement level) Rockingham County Thursday, August 7, 7:00PM Rockingham County Nursing Home Hilton Auditorium Brentwood, NH Cheshire County Saturday, August 9 @ 10:00AM Cheshire GOP HQ West Street, Keene Hillsborough - Manchester Monday, August 11, 6:00PM McCain 2008 HQ 250 Commercial Street Manchester, NH	Strafford County Tuesday, August 12 @ 5:00PM Remax Realty Center 472 High Street Somersworth, NH Hillsborough - Nashua Thursday, August 14, 7:00PM Nashua Victory HQ 139 Daniel Webster Hwy Nashua, NH Belknap and Carroll Counties Tuesday, August 19, 2008 @ 5:00PM Wolfe Trap 19 Bay St Wolfeboro, NH

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McCain Responds

MCCAIN RESPONSE: Obama's Wrong Strategic Judgment

BARACK OBAMA'S "POCKET" AD DISTORTIONS

WSJ - What Is a 'Windfall' Profit? (EDITORIAL)

Time: Obama to Unveil Energy Plan Monday

The Media is At It Again!

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Saturday Links

Obama's foreign-policy implosion World Net Daily

Ludacris Releases Song Attacking Clinton, McCain - Fox News

In his own words: John McCain's radio address today - LA Times

McCain Camp Cozies Up to Bill Clinton On Obama and Race - ABC

Axelrod: Obama Campaign Based on Race - Red State

Clinton Supporters Wondering: Will She Be Nominated at the Convention? - CQ Politics

McCain Camp Sees Energy As Winning Issue - CBS

Obama backs away from McCain's debate challenge - Yahoo/AP

Barack Obama his party's presumptive nominee, now he's its presumptuous nominee - Washington Post

Obama arrogance watch - Boston.com

LEAKED: Obama Kotel Note Leak was Campaign PR Stunt -Jerusalem - Hillary Green Mountain

Women Count Demands Hateful Rap Song to Be Pulled and For Ludacris to Apaologize - Purple People Vote

Humor as a Remedy for Hubris

Senator McCain's sense of humor has been both an asset and a liability over the years. It is certainly part of his basic appeal, and it is one of the reasons he relates so well at town hall meetings as his humor creates an immediate connection with the audience. His detractors will note that some of his jokes have been inapprporiate, and in some cases that's true, hence his humor as liability. It can also cause problems because in print, jokes often don't come across the way they do in person. For instance, during the primaries Senator McCain jokingly called a student who asked him a somewhat inappropriate question 'a little jerk' (clip below). There was quite a buzz in the papers until people actually saw the clip, and it was quite evident that he was joking.

So now comes the humorous and sarcastic McCain ad The One. In this case humor turns out to be the perfect remedy for an over-inflated ego. It's hard not see lines like, "We are the ones we've been waiting for" or "a light will shine down from somewhere" as flat out funny. To add to this Obama's reaction is priceless. His stern condemnation of the ads 'juvenile' just shows his inability to laugh at himself. You know that if you make a joke at Senator McCain's expense he'll likely be the first one to laugh (as he has done numerous times when teased about his age). On the other hand, Senator Obama blew it by taking this joke and himself so seriously.

The One


WMUR - Little Jerk


Humor as a Remedy for Hubris