Sen. John McCain was thrilled to speak to an enthusiatic Arizona crowd after a successful run of the Super Tuesday primaries in February 2008 (Tribune file photo).
Arizona Sen. John McCain will be here in the Valley for the biggest night of his political career — after the polls have closed on the 2008 election. The McCain election night party will be at the Arizona Biltmore Resort and Spa, the same spot where McCain celebrated his big Super Tuesday win during the primaries in Feburary. The room was packed that night, and obviously there should be even more Arizonans who will want to see McCain as the general election returns come in.
But this Associated Press story says Arizona fans at the party will have to watch McCain give his election night speech on television like the rest of the world. In an odd departure from tradition, McCain is planning to speak from a spot on the Biltmore lawn outdoors, surrounded only by a few supporters and a limited number of media reporters.
One government college professor told AP that McCain might be forced into this as the Biltmore space isn’t all that big (which I can attest to) and an election night speech is for TV cameras anyway. However, the move also seems to fit the view offered by Libertarian candidate Bob Barr today that McCain now is expecting to lose to Sen. Barack Obama.
But I’m certainly not counting McCain out, not after seeing the new AP poll implying that the race might be tighter than other polls are showing.
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