McCain Deviates From His Standard Election Day Routine

By: John Bentley
Topics: John McCain

(CBS)

From CBS News' John Bentley:

(PHOENIX) – John McCain has always had superstitions about Election Day. He likes to go see a movie, because, he has said, he doesn't think he can do much more campaigning than he's already done.

He also doesn't like to campaign on Election Day, a holdover from an earlier era of politics when politicians seldom held any events on the day voters went to the polls.

McCain will break both of those self-imposed rules today.

There will be no movie, because after voting here this morning, he will be back on the campaign trail. And there will be no lack of campaign events, because he's trailing in most of the polls.

McCain holds a noon rally in Grand Junction, Colorado, before heading down to Albuquerque for a couple of stops there. He'll find out if his last-minute campaigning paid off when he heads back to Phoenix in the afternoon to hold an Election Day party at the Biltmore Resort.

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by chetthor November 4, 2008 4:18 PM EST: CBSisPravda you are stuck in a rut... your company lobbist has paid off the republicans for years... too late...

We will be using coal for years... even if your employees have black lung and plugged brains.

Go vote... NO ONE believes your obcessive run-off polution.; Reply to this comment


by rita521 November 4, 2008 3:55 PM EST: McCain, we appreciate your valor and sacrifice to our country, but I was dishearten by your dishonorable tactic in this campaign. Selecting Palin was not a good thing. You toyed with a select group of Americans and left out the rest. The President of the United States should represent all. Not just the Joe six packs and Joe the plumber. Your tactics were divisive.; Reply to this comment


by caliengineer November 4, 2008 3:44 PM EST: Obama: bought and paid for. He earned 12K per year for three years as a "community organizer." At the end of that period, he moved into a million dollar home.
After graduating, he traveled the world for months. Who paid?
All his relatives are dead or being deported...
Who knows where he was really born? Only his father''s mother, who has never left Kenya seems to know- she says she was IN THE ROOM when BO was born.
Something stinks.; Reply to this comment


by rdepontb November 4, 2008 3:28 PM EST: Senator McCain,
Take Karl Rove, Cheney, and your other mentor/advisors with you, ok? Tonight''s win by Sen. Obama should be allowed, encouraged, and aided to bring a new type of government, to renew our standing in the world as well as in our very own individual lives.

We are so sorry you turned so negative, and that you brought that amoral VP pick into the national picture. Sorry for the U.S.; Reply to this comment


by JRC_903 November 4, 2008 3:22 PM EST: I think one of the previous posts is right. John McCain failed to realize that the dirty type campaign waged against him in 2000 would not benefit him in 2008 against Obama. Just like in trying to make this war, the last war, this was lost because he failed understand himself and what people liked about him before he started throwing the dirt. He also failed to read the polls. If he did he might have detected an upsurge when ever he said something positive about his opponent. For example, his polls turned upward right after he told that women in MN that "Obama was a decent family man." But he since he always assumed he was losing, he did not read the polls and therefore could not learn from what they said.; Reply to this comment


by txmom77 November 4, 2008 2:59 PM EST: Senator McCain did NOT fight the "good fight". If he had, I think he could have won this thing by a huge margin.

Instead, he gave control of his campaign to the hate-mongers who crushed him in 2000, and he got right down in the dirt with them.

Instead of sticking to the issues, which he actually had good positions on, by consistently calling his opponent names and attacking his character, he gave Obama the chance to set himself up as the more positive, calm, rational, tolerant and issue-focused of the two.

We can thank McCain for his service to the country, but we can''t thank him for much else. He gave it away to the ultra right, and he sealed his fate with his pitiful VP choice. He was a disappointment all the way around.; Reply to this comment


by tomadams99 November 4, 2008 2:25 PM EST: Yes, the torch is passing...unfortunately to an avowed Socialist, now Obamanization. The country will be Obamanized with a socialist Domestic Security Force to keep all of us in line.; Reply to this comment


by opedanderson November 4, 2008 2:24 PM EST: I totally agree.

Senator, you made a race that shouldn''t have even been close, very close indeed. And you lose tonight due to circumstances beyond your control.

You should be proud of what you have accomplished.; Reply to this comment


by interobserv November 4, 2008 2:04 PM EST: Senator McCain,
You fought the good fight. However, this "torch is being passed to a new generation of Americans" exemplified by Senator Obama. In any event, enjoy the day. Your service to your country is deeply appreciated.; Reply to this comment