Slate "You could call
Barack Obama the Teflon-coated candidate, but this would miss the fact that his slickness goes all the way to the core," writes
Jack Shafer. "Obama has maintained his persona by keeping the campaign press corps on a starvation diet. Yet such a strategy becomes self-limiting as the race for the White House narrows down to a two-person contest. Voters in the general election, as opposed to the primaries, tend to want more answers and fewer gestures."
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McCain used to refer jokingly to the media as his base (NYO)
