An awkward moment at a rally today in the town of Defiance, Ohio, when John McCain tries to introduce our friend Joe the Plumber -- you know, that guy who's called Samuel, and isn't a plumber -- only to find that Joe is nowhere to be found, possibly because he realises that being seen with John McCain these days might damage his nascent music career. It's not the case that a political campaign is automatically superior because it's slicker, of course, but consider the possibility that Barack Obama would ever have attempted to identify someone in the audience at a rally without his aides first making 300% sure that that person was there, possibly in triplicate, just to be sure. Wouldn't happen, would it?
(Anyway, "Defiance, Ohio": I suspect this place of having been made up solely to provide a venue for McCain's last-minute campaigning. Tomorrow, I believe, he's in Comeback, Missouri, and the day after that in We Could Still Win This Thing, a two-horse town in western Pennsyvlania.)
