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And they're done. Go to thephoenix.com/phlog tomorrow to download the podcast of the entire event. |
Ploufe crowing about Obama's leak-proof war room. Davis and McInturff exchange meaningful shrugs. |
Won't see this on the podcast: when Plouffe makes a derisive remark about "another of Rick's Ayers ads," Davis shrugs and points to mcinturf |
Davis: most dangerous thing McCain did in the campaign? Pissing off David Letterman. |
Dude just asked whether Obama had "premonition" about Illinois governor and brought Jarett into white house instead of on senate short list |
Entering the Q&A phase . . . |
Axelrod: Biden's Scranton story "ruined" by SNL. Rick Davis: you too? Ifill: "I got Queen Latifah, so I'm happy!" |
McCain pollster: Palin today has the highest poll #s (NBC/WSJ) of any Republican, including Condi Rice and McCain |
Davis on Sarah Palin: "You get what you pay for." |
Davis: "you guys had great discipline [to Axelrod]. We didn't." |
Axelrod on race speech: Obama wrote from 10 am to 3 pm on a 72 hr deadline. "I went to sleep. I knew he knew exactly what he wanted to say." |
Pollster: the happy scenario for McCain, even if he'd brought up Wright, was to win w/273 electoral votes, and lose pop vote by 3 million |
Ifill grilling Ploufe on Rev Wright |
Axelrod: campaign was won between sept 15 (the day lehman bros imploded, mccain said econ "fundamentally sound") and first debtae |
Axelrod: Bush's "obliviousness" tainted McCain |
Pollster: in typical McCain fashion, we alienated every political side |
"He tied himself to the Bush economic nostrums, and that ultimately helped us." |
Axelrod: "Hold on a minute." Argues that the faustian bargain was switching position on tax cuts. |
Davis: the war in Iraq. |
Ifill to Davis: what was your biggest faustian bargain? |
