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McCain sets election night event

Posted by Foon Rhee, deputy national political editor October 23, 2008 05:06 PM

John McCain's campaign just announced that his Election Night rally will be in Phoenix, in his home state of Arizona.

What is hopefully billed "Victory Election Night 2008" is set for the swanky Arizona Biltmore hotel.

The Associated Press is reporting that McCain is not going to make his election night remarks in the traditional style -- at a podium standing in front of a sea of campaign workers jammed into a hotel ballroom -- but instead plans to address another group of supporters and a small group of reporters on the hotel lawn.

His remarks will be simultaneously piped electronically to the party inside and other reporters in a media filing center, aides said, because of space limitations. Only a small press "pool" -- mostly those who have traveled regularly with the candidate on his campaign plane, plus a few local Arizona reporters and other guests -- will be physically present when McCain speaks, the AP.

Thomas Patterson, a government professor at Harvard's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, called the arrangement "unusual" but said the campaign may simply be bowing to the reality that the candidate's remarks are geared toward the televised audience rather than those in the hall.

"Addressing your supporters election night is one of those traditions in politics, like where you choose to launch your campaign," Patterson told the AP. "Why wouldn't you want the energy of the crowd? And if you're going to lose, you almost need it even more."

Democratic rival Barack Obama earlier this week confirmed that his Nov. 4 event will be outdoors in Chicago at Grant Park.

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That's handy. Nice short trip home after the concession speech.

Posted by SJB October 23, 08 01:13 PM
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I am trying to get invited to this so I can laugh in the loser's faces. The dirtiest, lying, most superficial campaign ever will go out with a whimper but it deserves more noise than that.

Posted by Already Voted Obama October 23, 08 06:16 PM
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I'm surprised the McCain camp has enough hope left to plan such an event. One would think reality would already have set in. With all the homes McCain has, why doesn't he just host this party at one of them? That way he will already be at home when his little party is over, and Obama becomes the next President Elect.

Posted by Jazz October 23, 08 06:42 PM
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I think Cindy is going to kick him out of the house if he loose!!

Posted by baysidecapecod October 23, 08 07:11 PM
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As is their presidential hopeful "OBAMA" is arrogant, so are his voters!!!!
McCain is CLASS all the way! If McCain loses, a big IF, it will be a very sad day for Americans. Obama supporters have no clue to the empty suit they are voting for. A class act of a car salesman. How can they be so naive.

Posted by McCain all the way November 3, 08 12:54 AM
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A sad day for America ... sad day for the Constitution. This was never a Liberal vs Republican. It was a radical socialist with a tucked away agenda vs capitalism. Well, you non-thinking "liberals" got much more that you could even comprehend. Go read the Constitution, The Federalist Papers, The Wealth of Nations and let's have a friendly discussion.

America has changed, and may be forever changed by the radical socialists now in power. But then, no great society has ever withstood time. Obama is leading the way to America's great decline - and will be completely oblivious to this fact.

Posted by Lover of the Constitution November 5, 08 01:40 PM
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