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An Interesting Conundrum

While watching the news pundits over the past few days discussing what each candidate needs to do within the next week to secure the election, I was struck by one thing. When asked what McCain would have to accomplish to win the presidency, nearly every journalist and their guests said the same thing: "He must show the American people that he is the more experienced, smarter candidate to lead their nation, something he has failed to do up to this point." The last part of this constantly heard mantra is what gets me. Everyone agrees that McCain has to show people he's the best leader, and everyone agrees he has not done this. So, my question is, how does he do it?! People keep complaining that McCain has not done this and not done that when the real question is how do they expect him to do it? What does the country want McCain to say or do to change their minds about him? Obviously, there is no clear answer to this. If it was as simple as the statement "he hasn't shown people he's the best to lead yet, and he's had so many chances," then McCain and his campaign would have figured out exactly how to show the American people this.  

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