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By Max Deveson
Pipersville, Pennsylvania

I don’t care if it is the BBC, I’ll take any article that says Sen. McCain did well.

The self-proclaimed purveyor of Straight Talk takes the stage, and invites questions on any subject.

A town hall meeting is John McCain’s chance to show he is a man of the people - and he does it with consummate skill.

In the warehouse of a factory in the small town of Pipersville, Pennsylvania, amid the fork-lift trucks and stacked boxes, the 2,000-strong audience was overwhelmingly friendly - but one person who did not seem to want a mere love-in was the candidate himself.

He relished the chance to “respectfully disagree” with questioners, to give them a dose of that trademark straight talk - and even, occasionally, to shut them up.

I am a little tired of his, ‘reaching across the aisle’ and ‘we respectfully disagree’ rhetoric. If the Senator is looking for my vote I want him to reach out to Conservatives for a change.

Knowing that these town hall events play to his strengths, Mr McCain challenged Mr Obama to a series of them, around the country. It’s an offer that Mr Obama appears to have decided not to take up.

At Pipersville, Mr McCain insisted that he was the “underdog” in this election, with an “uphill battle” on his hands.

Pennsylvania has voted Democratic in every presidential election since 1988, however with Baracks speech at a fund raiser where he belittled the voters of Penn. there may be a chance to swing the state to vote red.

The BBC Article

McCain calls prospect of joint town halls “very, very unlikely”

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