Main article: List of John McCain presidential campaign staff members, 2008. On July 2, 2008, Steve Schmidt was given full operational control of McCain's campaign. Schmidt had managed Arnold Schwarzenegger's 2006 re-election and was a top Dick Cheney aide.
Monopolistic competition. The model of monopolistic competition describes a common market structure in which firms have many competitors, but each one sells a slightly different product.
In monopolistic competition, a firm takes the prices charged by its rivals as given and ignores the impact of its own prices on the prices of other firms. In the presence of coercive government, monopolistic competition will fall into government-granted monopoly.