"After most of the previous twelve months covering Barack Obama's campaign for the presidency, it was interesting, instructive and well, relaxing to follow John McCain for the last few days. The differences between the two are striking...""...The McCain folks are more helpful and generally friendly...
John McCain is friendly and loquacious..."
"The McCain campaign plane is better than Obama's, which is cramped, uncomfortable and smells terrible most of the time. Somehow the McCain folks manage to keep their charter clean, even where the press is seated. The other day in Alburquerque, NM the reporters were given almost no time to file their reports after McCain spoke. It was an important, agressive speech, lambasting Obama's past associations. When we asked for more time to write up his remarks and prepare our reports the campaign readily agreed to it. They understood."
"Similar requests are often denied or ignored by the Obama Campaign Aides, apparently terrified that the candidate may have to wait
20 minutes to allow reporters to chronicle what he's just said. Its all the more maddening when we are rushed to our buses only to sit and wait for 30 minutes or more because nobody seems to know when Obama is actually on the move.."
"Maybe none of this means much. Maybe a front running campaign like Obama's that is focused solely on victory doesn't have the time to do mundane things like print up schedules...but in politics, everything that goes around comes around."
Read Dean Reynolds full article here From the Road
