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Pledges to take high road fall short

Both McCain, Obama camps change their tone

Supporters of John McCain and Barack Obama gathered at Nashville's Belmont University, site of last night's debate. Supporters of John McCain and Barack Obama gathered at Nashville's Belmont University, site of last night's debate. (Mark Humphrey/Associated Press)
By Sasha Issenberg
Globe Staff / October 8, 2008

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NASHVILLE - When the Tennessee Republican Party issued a press release in February titled "Anti-Semites for Obama" - with references to "Barack Hussein Obama" and a picture of the senator in a traditional Somali outfit that it described as "Muslim" - likely Republican nominee John McCain took one of his first stands as party figurehead to condemn it. (Full article: 708 words)

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