How Mac Can Get His Groove Back

It's not quite time for John McCain's "obit," Mark Halperin writes in Time, but we're getting there. How the Republican could right the ship:

• Realize that voters “want an upbeat president”—and stop pointing out his old age.
• Recognize that Americans care more about mortgages and health-care costs than about his life story.
• Try driving one message for longer than a day.

• Stop letting distaste for the Barack Obama show—and stop being so upset over Obamamania.
• Hope Obama screws up big-time on “relatability to average Americans” or on foreign policy.
• Hope gas prices fall.
• Hope Osama bin Laden is captured.

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