Nobody seems to know quite what to make of all this, but one thing does seem clear in the aberrant election of ’08: Barack Obama (still the likely Democratic nominee) and John McCain lifted themselves above the pack, despite enormous odds, largely because they pledged to be civil. At a campaign stop in Prescott, Arizona, on April 5th, McCain told the crowd, “We are Americans first and partisans second,” adding that the contest “should remain an argument among friends.”
Compared with campaigns of late, including Hillary Clinton's, this could actually be refreshing. I'm not getting my hopes up, though.
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I also enjoyed civility of these two campaigns so far, but I think that it could also be a strategic move on behalf of these two candidates to differentiate themselves. Once Obama and McCain will get their official nominations I think their styles will change. We are starting seeing that in McCain recent campaign: he is starting to attack Obama gradually, but skillfully (recently McCain suggested that Obama doesn’t know anything about economy). Also, even if two candidates are not going to attack each other directly, I am confident that there will be plenty of other political groups who will not pass the opportunity to use Obama’s elitist comments, Reverent Wright speech, and Michelle Obama’s unpatriotic remarks in a negative commercial.
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