Lord knows I’ve been a critic of John McCain, but that concession speech was all class.

McCain campaign books 15,000 person venue in Tampa… a thousand people show up.

Ouch.

The Los Angeles Times looks at the sorry state of the Republican ground game in Ohio:

Reporting from Delaware, Ohio — John McCain has targeted this wealthy area just north of Columbus as one of 15 counties in Ohio where he needs to drive up his vote tally if he is to beat Barack Obama on Tuesday in this must-win state.

But on Friday night, only nine volunteers manned the 24 phones in the McCain campaign office. The phone bank began operating on a daily basis just two weeks ago. And since then, only five people have shown up on most weekdays to canvass local neighborhoods.

Sixty-seven year old Dick Cheney endorses, John McCain, a man five years his senior.

UPDATE: Obama congratulates McCain:

I’d like to congratulate Senator McCain on this endorsement because he really earned it. That endorsement didn’t come easy. Senator McCain had to vote 90 percent of the time with George Bush and Dick Cheney to get it. He served as Washington’s biggest cheerleader for going to war in Iraq, and supports economic policies that are no different from the last eight years. So Senator McCain worked hard to get Dick Cheney’s support.

In one loaded word: “Or”

The Daily Kos poll shows Arizona effectively tied, with Obama up 54-42 among early voters who’ve cast their ballots.

Why does the McCain/RNC GOTV effort in Orlando need a bouncer? Check out minute 3:30 on. This outrageous.

Now Connecticut GOP Rep. Chris Shays has his own electoral troubles… but when a McCain state co-chair says of his candidate for president “I just don’t see how he can win,” there’s trouble afoot.

And Shays didn’t stop there, saying of McCain: “He has
lost his brand as a maverick; he did not live up to his pledge to fight a clean campaign.”