http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/02/AR2008110202409.html?hpid=opinionsbox1..."Stand up, stand up, stand up and fight!" McCain exhorted a group of 2,000 supporters in Scranton, Pa., on the same day Barack Obama drew 60,000 fans in Columbus, Ohio, and 80,000 in Cleveland. "Nothing is inevitable here! We never give up! We never quit! We never hide from history! Now let's go win this election!"
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The mood, however, did not match his Churchillian rhetoric. At McCain's first event of the day, in Wallingford, Pa., it grew so quiet at one point before his speech that a single preschooler's voice could be heard above the crowd chanting "John Mc-Cain!" Assigned to warm up the room, former Pennsylvania governor Tom Ridge gave a subdued speech mentioning how fond he is of gardening.
...The Mac then flew up to the University of Scranton, where a third of the college gym was blocked off by a curtain, making the rest of the gym look more full. The candidate read from the teleprompter roughly the same pep talk he had read at his first stop: "I can sense the momentum and the enthusiasm. . . . We're going to win this race. . . . Americans are figuring it out in the last 48 hours. . . . A few points down. . . . The Mac is back!"
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