John McCain and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Campaign

About a month ago, Howard Fineman opined that the leading 2008 Presidential candidates could be paired into three groups. In Fineman's view, former Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Sen. Barack Obama represent their respective parties' "Charismatic" candidates, while former Sen. John Edwards and former Gov. Mitt Romney are "Base-Wooers." Senators Hillary Clinton and John McCain are described as "Practicals."

Inasmuch as such a Manichean view of the candidates is useful, McCain is better paired with Edwards, not Clinton. Both Edwards and McCain are former presidential candidates who had done surprisingly well in previous long-shot campaigns. Both, however, have run truly abysmal campaigns so far this cycle.

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