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Post election, McCain's got jobs to attend to
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Phoenix, Arizona: Republicans are no doubt looking back at Election Day 2008, trying to figure out where they went wrong.
John McCain's presidential hopes were dashed, but he's still got his other job to return to.
Standing beneath the flag he has served for more than half a century, John McCain could not hide his disappointment, and did not try.
“We fought as hard as we could. And though we fell short, the failure is mine, not yours”, McCain said.
McCain said he will leave it to others to determine why he lost.
Many Republicans blame powerful anti-GOP headwinds, and a campaign that relied on a series of tactics, not an overriding defining strategy.
Senior McCain advisors admit that the mid-September's economic collapse sealed his fate.
McCain says, "I will suspend my campaign and return to Washington.”
Pollster Peter Hart says, “He came out as being erratic, and not ready to deal with the economy. And at that stage, people started to look at Obama and Obama had a new, fresh wind and that was the difference.”
And then there was Sarah Palin. Exit polls show she hurt McCain with independent and suburban votes, who called her unqualified to be president.
Palin herself says, “Well, I don't think anybody should give Sarah Palin that much credit that I would trump an economic woeful time in this nation that occurred about two months ago. That my presence on the ticket would trump the economic crisis that America found itself in a couple of months ago and attribute John McCain's loss to me. If I cost John McCain even one vote, I am sorry.”
McCain will now go back to the senate, a post defeat trip he's taken once before.
After losing his presidential primary bid in 2000, McCain returned to work across the aisle on major legislation, like campaign finance reform.
McCain confidantes tell CNN they're encouraging him to do that once again.
McCain’s best friend, Senator Lindsey Graham, told CNN that he hopes McCain will become another "lion" in the senate, work with Democrats and Republicans on issues like illegal immigration and climate change.
But Graham also admitted it will take some time for McCain to heal from the wounds of a grueling two year campaign, and his long time ambition to be president, crushed.
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