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Mr. McCain also seized on Mr. Obama’s recent conversation about taxes with an Ohio voter, who became known as Joe the Plumber during the debate. For all of Mr. McCain’s direct appeals to the Joes of America, and his direct slams on Mr. Ayers, it was the lack of direct damage to Mr. Obama that cheered Democrats after the debate. “It was a confused, ineffective, at times stumbling McCain who lost decisively to a presidential Obama,” said Robert Shrum, the veteran Democratic consultant. “Americans worry a lot more about paying their bills than about some guy named Bill Ayers. The burden was on McCain, and he couldn’t rise to the occasion.”
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