Meghan McCain's parallel campaign

Meghan McCain

Reading Meghan McCain's likeable blog induces a strange but not unpleasing sensation of cognitive dissonance: while her father's campaign grows more and more negative and embattled, she appears to be on an entirely different journey, in a parallel universe. There's no negative campaigning here, or even much campaigning at all: at any given moment, she's more likely to be eating pizza, inspecting pumpkins, or chilling out in the luxurious interior of the Straight Talk Express with a group of friends who look like nice, well-adjusted people -- and who seem to have an admirably relaxed attitude to getting John McCain elected. The photograph above comes from an album portraying a recent campaign swing through Maine. It's full of gorgeous early-fall colours on bright cold days, with not a ranting Islamophobe nor a difficult-question-asking liberal journalist in sight. Bliss.