Escapism Express.(The Talk of the Town)(John McCain's promotion of his new book)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 03-SEP-07

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"Politics is all sports metaphors," John McCain said the other day. "It's unfortunately overwhelmed with cliches from sports. It's sickening, almost." Nonetheless, he was in the mood to talk athletics, and he speculated that his campaign for President--by all accounts foundering--was facing the equivalent of second down and twenty yards to go. He did not seem willing, exactly, to concede that it was time (as some commentators have suggested) to throw a Hail Mary, but he spoke with regret about "the inexorable movement of earlier and earlier primaries," coupled with the compressed schedule of primary season. "You could never have a Hart-Mondale race anymore, where Hart won the early primaries and Mondale came back to defeat him," he said.

McCain was in New York...

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