Just dropped · Trial Balloon · Ep. 192
November Surprises
“This is like watching a Greek tragedy. It’s the negative campaigning and the increasingly personal attacks… it should have stopped long ago. Any utility from the debates has been exhausted, and now it’s just exchanging cheap shots and personal shots followed by super PAC attacks.”
— Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), quoted by the Boston Herald, on the state of the Republican presidential race.
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