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All Aboard the Straight Talk Express
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It seems strange to discuss now, as the McCain campaign declares war on the “elite liberal media” and as the press swoons over a new darling, but there was a time not too long ago when John McCain called that same media establishment “my base.” They just called him “John.”
Jill Zuckman, campaign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, is one of the few media veterans from McCain’s 2000 campaign. She remembers riding with the candidate around New Hampshire in his trademark Straight Talk Express when the Arizona senator had no more name recognition than Orrin Hatch, Lamar Alexander or any of the other also-rans who challenged frontrunner George W. Bush for the Republican nomination.